CPU cycles got me down

I luv iTunes, but on my machine it tends to eat a unproportionately large amount of CPU cycles [anything between 10 and 25%] when playing back one of my 3562 mp3's from my harddrive. I've tried closing the main window, minimizing the player, and hidding the muppet, but it still insist on consuming the above amount of cycles.

I went searching for a lighter mp3 player, and found Light Mp3. At this time it seems to stay between 4-12% CPU cycles to playback mp3's. It's a nice and almost invisible application, that sits neatly next to the other menubar icons. I am seriously considering the $4 shareware fee.  < # |  : 5  |  : 0 >

Patterns for personal websites

Mark L. Irons wrote a nice piece on what makes up a good personal website. Looking at my own site after skimming Marks main points, I know I am way behind, and that I owe everybody a gift, a downloadable weblet, and unchangeable URLs. I think Marks piece ought to be part of anybodys introduction on publishing personal websites, I could certainly have used it a year ago when I started this place.  < # |  : 3  |  : 0 >

Things to do at the Airport

Feel bored? How about going to the airport and make them say some funny things in the PA, like these people did?  < # |  : 4  |  : 0 >

R.I.P.

The hip-hop world has been shaken before by the violent deaths of famous performers, such as Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.¶

And now it has been shaken again, RUN DMC's DJ Jam Master Jay [aka Jason Mizell] was shot dead in Jamaica, Queens. Thanks for the 1989 koncert in KB-Hallen, and all the headnodding tunes Jay!  < # |  : 0  |  : 0 >

Not exactly rocket science

As I was battling an assignment in PHP/MySQL till 4 in the morning, I just played the good boss and donated myself a bit of a nap on my couch. Usually I would be a little cranky now, and I would also not be able to remember anything I might have dreamt of during this nap. This particular nap and the immediate period following it hasn't been usual. I could actually consciously remember what I dreamt. To celebrate this fantastic event, I'll share part of my dream with you. I dreamt of people playing a board game. Nothing fancy like TP or Backgammon, but a board game for simple folks like myself. The settings, I believe, was a town square, in a southern European medieval town. The contenders were young, in need of money, and with a bad habit of gambling. The game rules were simple: Smack the ball with the back of your hand, past the obstacles, and into the opponents plastic cup. Not exactly rocket science, but one of the players I talked to said you could make 700 Danish kroner (≈ $US 100) a day playing this game against other simple people. Not bad. You think it will catch on, and what should I name it?

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Rewrite me, senseless

Webmasterbase has a nice tutorial for both beginners and advanced users, on how to use the mod_rewrite module on Apache to rewrite URLs thereby obtaining search-engine friendliness and provide better safety in your web applications.  < # |  : 3  |  : 0 >

Spammers move to blogs

When I got this comment on my posting on Blogger misfortune on friday, I was wondering what the hell that was all about. A clue? To me? In which way had I asked for one?

Anywho, Winther got the same comment to his posting about bloggers outage. Odd, but probably just a nutcase trying to convey a new meaning of the universe and hackers to the world of weblogs.

Enter Shane, who did a bit of research. Turns out, that Mr. Comment left a trail all over the blogdex list of blogs that wrote about bloggers hack incident. Shane figures it's a vast conspiracy [well, sort of anyway].

Enter Phil Ringnalda, the digital magpie. He suffered a spam attack targeted at his comments-section of his MT-driven weblog. Now, Phil is slick, so he stopped the culprit somewhere in the beginning of his felony with some .htaccess magic and some IP-banning, so Phil is safe, but the question is, what about the rest of us. Do we now have to be little Phil Ringnaldas, sitting there watching the server-traffic from the edge of our seat? Oh, the intensity!

I guess it's either that, or "You must register to comment" - both things suck-diddeley-uck.  < # |  : 0  |  : 0 >

Silly Jagwire trick

Yesterday, this little curiosity of OS X 10.2 was revealed in a newsgroup. Try pressing cmd+alt+ctrl+8, and behold the transmogrification of thy display output. Don't worry, you won't loose anything by trying it, it's all a part of Jagwires accessibility features.  < # |  : 0  |  : 0 >

9 -> X switch, and pissed about it.

From 9 to X instead of PC to Mac. It bares witness of how a lot of people feel about being a superuser in OS 9, and switching to being completely destroyed by the X-way of doing things. For me it's been the other way around, I never knew I wanted a CLI until I got it. [Link courtesy of whatdoiknow.]  < # |  : 1  |  : 0 >

Quasi dead mobile haiku

Should connect people
can't even "contact service"
firmware out to lunch

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Blogger hacked

Tom Coates [of plasticbag.org] has the skinny details on the event from his point of view.  < # |  : 1  |  : 0 >

Not Funny!

Who nicked my Protection CD?  < # |  : 1  |  : 0 >

Gestures all over the place

One of the things that make Opera stand out in the field of browers on the PC, is mouse gestures. No more pulling down menus for selecting an application function, no more 'one-hand-on-the-keyboard-and-one-on-the-mouse' surfing. Mouse gestures lets you sit back and browse the web with minimal effort. I've envied PC users for being able to do that in Opera, and I've envied them for being able to do it systemwide with Stroke It [which is no longer at this address - anybody know where it lives?]. Now, bitart brings this functionality to OS X, systemwide, with CocoaGestures and it does it amazingly well. There I go, armed with mouse and modifier key.  < # |  : 0  |  : 0 >

Did you smell my call?

The 3rd generation of mobile devices promises so many things; person-person, person-machine, and machine-machine connectivity. A state of onlineness and information submersion unsurpassed in history. Another thing it might offer is aromatic phone calls.   < # |  : 0  |  : 0 >

Help Janus post in two languages

My friend Janus wants to post in two languages on his weblog. He is using Moveable Type v2.5 [because Ask and I told him to], and he would like to know if somebody has figured out a smart way to do this. His demands are: [...] I don't want it as some kind of synchronizing "language mirror"-site with all entries in two versions. I want to be able to publish some articles in Danish, some en English, and some in both languages. Also I need input on a smart way to make references between the two versions for the readers, so people who know both English and Danish can find their way to the news. Ideas? So, you've got any ideas on how to do this, MT-style? Leave a comment here, or write a comment on Janus' posting.  < # |  : 1  |  : 0 >