Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Folks, if you’ve been experiencing some odd date/time issues with Javamancy’s posts all day, you’re not crazy. While we’d adjusted the system manually for the US Daylight Savings Time on March 8, 2009, there was a problem with a system backup and restore earlier today that unfortunately tossed a few posts into disarray. Now, granted, [...]

iPod Shuffle, the 3rd Generation

March 11, 2009 at 9:01 AM

in Gadgetry

So, it’s official: the Apple Store outage earlier today was to allow Apple’s [AAPL] new iPod shuffle to be unveiled. And, wow! It’s smaller than the previous generation, and so it lacks that super-convenient USB plug that the first generation had and which the second generation lost… But it now has a new feature called [...]

Back in 2008, just before Javamancy was launched, I had agonized over whether WordPress was acceptable for use as a weblog. I had reviewed its source code in the past, and as a result, had postponed switching to it while reviewing other competing products. Eventually, the customization aspect and mindshare won me over, and we [...]

Earlier, I had posted about Snipt.org and a WordPress plugin that “embeds” code from it.   The Action, Part 2: Gaming the Service for the Fun of I.T. Of course, if somebody is allowing you to embed code from a remote location in a faithful manner, the natural next step would be to strip out [...]

I was bouncing around, minding my own business, when I  drifted over to the Apple’s [AAPL] online Apple Store… And, guess what I saw? Yep. It’s closed for the time being… While it’d be great to see a massively updated 12″ MacBook being unveiled onto an unsuspecting audience, I’m guessing it’s something else that we [...]

The Setup: Which “Snipt” Are We Talking About? Remember when Snipt was discussed here a few days ago? To add more confusion to the snippet remote storage controversy, there’s another site (which some of you have already mentioned) called Snipt.org, which does not appear to be the same as Snipt.net. Although the two sites are [...]

Switcheroo on Dido Song

March 11, 2009 at 2:00 AM · 2 comments

in Meanderings

Remember the Starbucks [SBUX] Pick of the Week promotion with Apple [AAPL] iTunes? If you’ve been following along and picking up a card each week, you may have noticed that last week’s offer was ostensibly Dido’s “Quiet Times” song. However, I noticed that when I input the code for the song, I ended up downloading [...]