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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Superchunk’s still got it!

It’s good to see that after all of these years people are still interested in Superchunk! So interested that the mere mention of them holding a free show with some new band (I haven’t really heard of them: the Arcade Fire?) will prompt huge lines to form in hopes of a ticket.

I am the face of feminine beauty

Missing… kid?

I got a flier in the mail that asked me if I had seen this 64 year old woman who had been missing since 1958. It begs the question, are kids ever retired from the missing kid database? If this 64 year old woman is out there somewhere, doesn’t she have he own life by [...]

Wembly, Robosapien…

…Curtains of Night, Bellafea… Some good music has been at the Local 506 the past couple of days. It was absolutely great to finally see Wembly. Robosapien will school anyone when it comes to bringing the party. Curtains of Night have that unique mix of stoner rock and hardcore that I was instantly in love [...]

Looking the part

These Blogs are Snakes!

I just saw 15 snakes on my run!

FIX: This device is expired. Please install a newer version of the OS.

Your development iPhone wigging out? Demanding that you connect it to iTunes and you’re pretty damned sure it’s connected to iTunes? You need a new version of the OS and probably a new version of the SDK to install it. Get them both from the iPhone development page (login required for the OS.)

iPhone: This Device Expired

My iPhone decided to brick on its own this morning. Xcode tells me, “This device is expired. Please install a newer version of the OS.” Thanks, Xcode, I’ll just head over to Apple’s developer site and… wait a tick… there is no newer version of the OS! (Still 5A225c) If you’re a fellow iPhone developer, [...]

Recording at Chuck’s

Sunday Chuck and I had an experiment with direct-in drum recording.

MySong

Microsoft has this experimental software that takes a sung melody and gives it a fucking awesome, synth-piano backing. Is there something out there that can maybe do the reverse? You know, like we could give it music then it would make this awesome 1980′s sounding synth voice singing computer-made lyrics? Could that program also do [...]


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