Business As Usual At The Factory Of Idiot Dreams

Amazon Error Arbitrage?

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David

on March 12, 2008 1:09 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I recently went looking for some Coltrane music to add to my collection, I guess prompted by this review which highly recommended First Meditations. This was recorded by the classic "Love Supreme" quartet, before it broke up and the tracks were re-recorded with Pharoah Sanders' primeval additions. It was not authorised for release by John Coltrane himself but later released by his wife. Since Love Supreme is one of my all time favourites (and I don't normally do favourites) it had to be worth listening to another recording by this band at the peak of their creativity.

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6 Million Idiots

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David

on March 7, 2008 12:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Apparently because 6 million idiots injured themselves by not watching where they were going the taxpayer has to provide padding around the lampposts.

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I Love The Smell Of Wet Plaster In The Morning...

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David

on February 26, 2008 11:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

... it smells like ... progress

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Completion of Mail.app Migration

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David

on February 5, 2008 12:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I went to write an email and found the address wasn't in the Mac's address book. This reminded me that I needed to export the address book from Thunderbird to the Mac's address book.

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More Appleification and a bit of Google-Magic

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David

on February 2, 2008 12:59 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Despite switching I have retained Thunderbird as my mail client - partly because I saw some complaints about Mail.app crashing and partly because I couldn't be bothered to import all my old mail.

But Thunderbird is doing a poorer and poorer job at spam filtering (or the spammers are getting cleverer) and it's starting to get a bit irritating. In addition, mail access from my mobile device is even worse since it doesn't get the benefit of Thunderbird's filtering. Even though I have flat rate data, filtering out 100's of spam a day on a mobile screen was too much, so I stopped using it. But one of my friend's showed my his iPhone, generating instant gadget envy and I decided I really ought to mobilise my life a bit more - even without an iPhone. So some kind of server-side spam filtering was clearly needed.

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