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Monthly Archives: December 2008

Band Online Content Manager

The role of “band manager” is going to really change if people haven’t gotten on board with this already. “Band manager” is going to be maybe 50% “online content manager”. Look at this laundry list: Friends. You need to collect friends on MySpace and Facebook and ReverbNation. You need to get people subscribed to your [...]

“Accumulation” @ Local 506

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Best Ever Built to Spill Songs

There was a time a few years ago when I would wake up with Built to Spill playing in my brain. I had, unimpressed, heard their music before, but a floating, NP-complete show at the Cradle swayed me. These are my favorites: “Carry The Zero” – Keep It Like A Secret “You Were Right” – [...]

Most recognizable bass lines of all time

Under Pressure – Queen/Bowie Pink Floyd – Money Rappers Delight – Sugarhill Gang Come Together – The Beatles Psycho Killer – The Talking Heads: Simple, but effective. Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana: The Pixies formula played to perfection Give It Away – Red Hot Chili Peppers Honorable Mention: Pass the Mic – Beastie Boys: [...]

Netflix data sorted user list

User IDs for the Netflix data go to 2649081 but there are not that many users — there are *only* 480189. If you would like a text file of the user IDs sorted from least to greatest, your search is over. Just click here. Update: I added how many movies each user rated to the [...]

Java OutOfMemoryError in eclipse

Getting this and you want to use Eclipse? java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space Find the Preferences menu item. For me, in OS X, this is under the “Eclipse” menu item. Click on the “Java” item in the box which comes up. Click on the “Installed JREs” sub-menu item. Select your JRE and click “Edit”. For “Default [...]

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