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Posted on July 18, 2008 at 11:04 pm

Why are logic board replacements always a source of grief?

Just what is it, anyway, with the times when you have to get a logic board in a computer replaced? Is it only an Apple Macintosh thing? Every single encounter I’ve had with the procedure has resulted in some sort of complication.
Never mind the fact that after mine was done recently, I had to re-authenticate [...]

Posted on July 11, 2008 at 8:36 am

Delicious Library improvements forthcoming

Back in late May, I wrote to Delicious Monster the following:
Good job with DL2. Two comments:

*Please* consider putting the information pane back on the right side, orĀ give the option to do so.
HTML export needs to ignore articles (A, An, The) and such when sorting.

Today, they replied, not that I really expected a reply:
Hi Lee,

We are. [...]

Posted on June 20, 2008 at 3:35 pm

Feelin’ like some Chicago

The horror! Somehow, as I realized yesterday, neither my iTunes library nor my CD collection contains a single track of Chicago. Admittedly, I was never a huge follower, but there are many songs they produced that I like.
So now, I’m trying to make up my mind whether to go for a big list of singles [...]

Posted on April 26, 2008 at 3:18 pm

Why the switch?

For someone who is usually happy with the status quo and resistant to change, it sure seems like I’ve migrated to new web sites and e-mail addresses a lot. Okay, maybe not as much as some people I know, but it feels like a lot to me.
But here’s the scoop. Second Initial was created with [...]

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