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Entries from August 2007

Victory Records horror stories

August 9th, 2007 · Comments Off · Music

Pixelspread posted this story about how the indie label Victory Labels abused their artists and employees.
Almost all of Victory Records major alternative bands including Hawthorne Heights, Atreyu, Thursday, Taking Back Sunday, and Hatebreed, left them due to disputes. The head of Victory Records, Tony Brummel, is a bully who treats his employees, the label’s artists, [...]

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.Mac still sucks

August 8th, 2007 · Comments Off · Macintosh

Even with yesterday’s update, .Mac is still not very useful. The only thing I use my .Mac account for is iSync and as my Apple Store account.
I don’t use my iDisk because it’s too slow. I don’t use .Mac backup; I back up to my Buffalo TeraStation every night using Synk Pro (I formerly [...]

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links for 2007-08-07

August 7th, 2007 · Comments Off · Links

Wiimote API
Opera has released an API to access the wiimote from the internet channel. We’ll be seeing online games that take advantage of it.
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My2unz Update

August 5th, 2007 · Comments Off · Drupal, Music, Web

I’ve added a few new features to My2unz and to my iTunes module.

I’ve enabled Events and allow members to create events.
I’ve enabled the favorites module, which lets members add a track, artist, album, or playlist to their favorites, which appears in their profile.
Track detail view now shows the members who own that [...]

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my2unz.com is up!

August 4th, 2007 · Comments Off · Drupal, Music, Web

My new iTunes playlist sharing site, my2unz.com is up. Registration is by invitation only - contact me for an invitation.
I wrote one custom Drupal module that imports an iTunes playlist or library exported as XML and handles specialized nodes for playlists & tracks. The rest of it is mostly standard Drupal modules. I plan to [...]

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Ten Years Ago

August 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off · Music

This article reminded me that Fela died exactly 10 years ago. No other musician, even his son Femi Kuti, can match his talent and charisma.

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Getting Closer

August 1st, 2007 · Comments Off · Drupal, Web

I’m almost finished writing the iTunes module. The import is working, but I still need to finish creating the views and menu commands. I’ve only had a few hours a day to work on this, since I’m busy with work.
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New DSL modem

August 1st, 2007 · Comments Off · General

BellSouth sent me a new DSL modem for my DSL Xtreme 6.0 upgrade. It’s a lot smaller than the old one.

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