BoingBoing has a post about paypal phasing out payments for adult items. I dunno, this just seems kind of lame to me. I mean, isn’t the whole idea of paypal that it’s to let you pay for just about anything (as long as it isn’t illegal). Paypal seems to be making things difficult for folks too, one of the places I buy anime from is going to stop accepting paypal for payments due to some new policies they have (I wonder if it is related to this at all).

So I decided to re-rip all my CDs using AAC. And now I’m going through and filling out every bit of info for the tracks as I add them in. Including things like composer and the picture of the album/CD cover. Whee. Though I’m starting off with the CDs I haven’t ripped yet.

Well, besides the usual of lookiing for work. I’ve been trying to spend my time a little bit better. Monday I met with my therapist. It went pretty good. I think this could be a really good thing. I tend to not write about it much here because I think most of you would be bored with it, but this whole unemployment thing on top of the whole lung thing is driving me slightly crazy (and we’ll just leave it at that ^_^).

I’m also going through and resorting my records. I’m doing two passes, first pass I’m just ripping out stuff that I either don’t play much, don’t think I’ll ever play out anywhere, or don’t like. Second pass will be breaking stuff up a little bit more. I kind of want to separate things out to something like Techno/House/Trance. Or at least break out all the old cheesy prog trance I have (that I have left after the first pass that is).

I’ve started fiddling around with Boston Brunch again. It’s currently not up at all, but I still have all the old data. I kind of want to redo the whole design of the site, use CSS for all the ugly font stuff I was doing, rethink some of the design, etc. So we’ll see how that all goes.

So, even though I’m sitting around at home alone too much, I’m being somewhat productive.

Burning Sifl & Olly to VCD.

ROCK!

Unxmaal.com posts about XShelf. I actually saw this a few days ago in an article about OS X freeware and has been meaning to post about it. This program is so damn useful. It’s already become one of those programs I can’t live without. What does it do?

XShelf enhances drag and drop in MacOS X by letting you “pause” drag and drop operations, as well as have multiple drag and drop operations in flight at once.

You can drag files or folders from Finder into the shelf and they will sit there until you drag them out. Once you drag them out, the drag operation will finish as if XShelf were never involved. You may drag individual or multiple files or folders, as well as text clippings and URLs to XShelf. With XShelf, you no longer have to shuffle windows so that both the source and target of a drag and drop are onscreen at the same time.

In many ways, it is a replacement for the old NeXT shelf (and the Newton shelf, but never having used the Newton, I have to take this on faith :)[XShelf 1.0 for MacOS X]

A bit of Apple overkill here. But here are the new commercials. The guy singing Baby Got Back is too funny.

Dive Into Mark today talks about doing backups with rsync and ssh. This is one of the things I really love about unix and one of the reasons I’m so happy that it is at the heart of OS X. Not to bash on MS, but how easy is to do the same thing on Windows? Without having to go out and buy more software. I think you might be able to do some of it with cygwin, but I’m not sure how easy it would be to get working. Note, it isn’t necessarily the easiest thing to get working in unix, but it is very easy to find help online on how to do it.

TidBITS has a nice rundown of Apple’s service.

Clare Booth Luce: “Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.” [Quotes of the Day]

Derek runs into issues with sendmail. This is one of the reasons I switched away from sendmail. Sendmail is powerful, it can do all kinds of things when it comes with dealing to email. The issue is, most people don’t need this kind of power. For most people, something like postfix works just fine. I switched about two years ago and I love it. It’s insanely easy to configure and just plain works (and I just figured out how to do pop before smtp authentication with it).