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Maybe You Aint So Different After All

Mar 14, 2008 9:51 AM

Expansion on Craig Hockenberry's comparison of iTunes Store partnerships and App Store partnerships. 

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Wasted Youth

Mar 7, 2008 1:09 PM

When I was 14, I got really into Wasted Youth. The band ... The English band from the UK, not the hardcore band from LA. They're kind of obscure. So obscure, in fact, that iTunes, Amazon.com, AllMusic.com, and Last.FM, can't seem to tell the difference between them. 

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The Difference Between Same-sex Marriage And Gay Marriage

Mar 4, 2008 10:52 AM

In the United States, gays and straits currently have the same restrictions to marriage.  Neither can marry their same sex, both can marry the opposite.  What your actual preference is, is arbitrary.  Let's stop arguing for a second and think about the logistics before we dive in. 

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Clef Gut Double Bass Strings

Mar 1, 2008 12:32 PM

The following is a re-published product review I posted to uptonbass.com. I'm not sure if it took or not, so I'm cross posting it here because I spent so much time on it. 

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Google Calendar Infinite Loop Solved

Feb 27, 2008 6:32 AM

I haven't been able to access my Google Calendar in Safari for nearly two months. I probably spent about 20 to 40 minutes a week over the past few months trying to track down the cause or a fix. Today I finally found the solution in the Google Calendar Help Group. It was posted on January 29th of this year. I don't know why it took me so long to find. I looked pretty hard.

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Bottom Dweller Bass

Feb 25, 2008 10:09 AM

Logic Pro 8 has some sweet new bass loops! 

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Thoughts On Hockenberrys Thoughts On Downloads

Feb 19, 2008 12:45 PM

Craig Hockenberry with one of the most concise and accurate analogies of the current state of the recorded music industry:

[...] the best thing for business is to make sure you have the best product available. That’s both the beauty and the challenge of any “try before you buy” system. Good products win, bad products are quickly forgotten. I suspect that the root of the music industry’s problem is this: they have been able to produce sub-standard product for many years. I know there are many albums in my collection that consist of few great tracks along with a bunch of crap that I’d rather not listen to. 
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Declined To Declare

Feb 18, 2008 11:49 AM

Who are you voting for for the President of the United States? Many of the people I know seem to be pretty much decided, depending, of course, on the outcome of their party's primary. Most are affiliated with the Democratic or Republican parties. A handful are Greens. I'm one of those decline to declares (that's Californian for no party affiliation). There are two parties that I'm drawn to, but they are largely on the opposite ends of the spectrum. Neither one trumps the other with a significant enough share of the issues that are important to me to pull me in one direction or the other. 

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Microsoft: Scourge of the Internet

Feb 1, 2008 4:30 PM

Microsoft will purchase Yahoo. It hasn't happened yet, but the bid is now officially on the table, and it will happen. My previous experiences with unsolicited takeovers have shown me that they are usually best measured in terms of when—not if. 

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Deep Down I Know Hes Right

Jan 24, 2008 9:33 AM

Zeldman on version targeting:

  • With version targeting, IE stays on the path of web standards.
  • Without it, ineptly made websites “break,” putting IE’s standards compliance at risk.
  • If IE were to stop supporting standards, standards would stop working.
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