Monthly Archives: September 2006

iTunes Video Actually Looks Pretty Damn Good!

I hooked my laptop to an LCD TV with a VGA cable and watched the last episode of Season 2 of Lost. iTunes is currently giving it away. It actually looked better than regular satellite TV! Granted, the satellite signal … Continue reading

"Get Album Artwork" Doesn’t Work Quite As Expected

Because it doesn’t incorporate your art into the digital file. It tosses it into the Coverflow cache. I just noticed that after trashing the “Album Artwork” in my iTunes folder that the artwork that had downloaded automatically was gone too. … Continue reading

Coverflow in iTunes 7 – Watch That Album Art Folder!

Awesome to see Coverflow being added into iTunes 7. But beware that by using Coverflow you may be eating up space and not knowing it. Album artwork in iTunes is stored in the actual mp3/m4a file. However, it would seem … Continue reading

Where’s iTunes Store Lossless Audio

If Apple is going to give us full length, HD-Quality movies through the iTunes store, then how come we don’t have lossless audio for the music? That would virtually eliminate all these DRM problems! No real loss of sound quality, … Continue reading

And We’re Back

And it’s a better layout I think! I’ve been wanting to ditch the orange for a long time. A few notes: Easier template editing They really cleaned up the template code! Everything is commented, real nice, and anyone familiar with … Continue reading

Trying the Blogger Beta So You Don’t Have To

I’m thinking of switching this blog to the Blogger beta. I risk a few things by doing this. My Customized Template Breaking Ecto Breaking Flickr But maybe Technorati will finally index the blog? I do like that I can set … Continue reading

PSH – Fuck this game! Ok? YOU WIN! AKA Nerd Rage

This is where I keep getting killed. It’d be ok if there was a save point somewhere along the way, but NO! Some invisible sentry cannon? GMAFB!

Education Inflation

Sir Ken Robinson on TED Talks: When we all visited Hamburg, Joel said something that struck me. He said something along the lines of “You go to college for 4 years, get your degree, and you end up working at … Continue reading

Academics and Art Snobs, Get Off Your High Horse

Because so-called “legitimate” art doesn’t exist, and I’m not sure that it ever did. In music school I was always fed the idea that popular music is unimportant because it’s purpose is to make money. It is not as sophisticated … Continue reading

The "AHHHH!!!" Factor in Game Design

There always seems to be that ONE moment in every game in which you spend an hour playing the game, discovering new objects and areas and solving puzzles, only to have have it come crashing down in an instant. That … Continue reading