Double Twist

I spent the morning trying to get double twist setup on my work comp. This lead to some issue's b/c of the firewall at z office. After bit of Google searching I found a not so well publicised thread in the forum that says how you can get around the annoying "Installation Aborted" issue.

Check it out if your having problems getting Doubletwist to install

Band Name of the Day

Adebisi Shank. I mean come on, who didn't love Oz?

A quick hit

Let me just say that I am against fake solutions like this, and I fully expect FearLessVKto weigh in the not so distant future. Unless of course she's busy actually living her life and all.

Song Of The Day

My cup runnith over today. Not only a great band name of the day, but a great song title of the day.

"...And then she look'd down and saw miniature houses and miniature people and inside the miniature people were miniature hearts pumping blood through miniature veins (her mouth was watery and wet)"

This song is by Giraffes? Giraffes! who are actually rather awesome. I suggest them to all.

Band Name of the Day

Ladies and gentlemen, I now take great pleasure in presenting you with today's over the top band name of the day.

Drum Roll Please.

And So I watch You From Afar

I am currently listening to this band for the first time ever and they seem fine. Nothing bad nothing amazing so far. Pretty droning and what not, but dear God that name is terrible. I am curious why even go with that name. Why not just call yourself, I steal your lint out of your dryer when your not looking, or I plan to hide your bones in my basement one day? I am sure there is some sort allusion in the name, but I have no clue what it is.

However if you like the Battles, or Ox's, Botch, or other such polyrhythmic bands, give them a listen.

Why I find Apple Annoying

Let me begin by saying I really don't care that much about Apple one way or the other. My friends love to try and get me riled up about various subjects*, but I honestly don't really give a damn about Apple computers. If you need a new computer and you are willing to pay a premium price, go for it. I think there OS is better then the last few M$ OS's I have used, but I walk a different path then both of those.

With all that said, I really get pissed when I see Steve Jobs say shit like this, "It's like we said on the iPad, if you see a stylus, they blew it. In multitasking, if you see a task manager... they blew it. Users shouldn't ever have to think about it."

So let's think about both of these ideas, the first one is where I get my most anger. The second is just silly.

Let's take the second first. Task Killers. Steve...it's been a while since I used a MAC, but I am damn near certain that OS X has a way to kill tasks. Does that mean that you blew it on your flag ship OS? Now, maybe you don't have a task killer proper, but I seriously doubt you went through the effort of making it impossible to run kill -9 from the shell**. So let me know when you get that right, and I'll buy your expensive and beautiful hardware.

The first thought really chaps my ass though. It just seems to be another case of Jobs just pushing his own agenda on style. Look I understand that a stylus is annoying when you have to use it for everything you're doing, but is it really that hard to imagine how a stylus could be super useful? Let's go with two quick examples.

1) Students: Maybe just maybe students would like to be able to download lecture notes, and annotate them directly on their light weight and portable tablet in class. That way you are reading the notes and making your own notes at the same time. That's right kids, all your thoughts about the subject in one handy place. Yeah...that would be blowing it Steve.

2) People who have to go to presentations all the time: Now this a broad category I know, but let's spit ball a couple of ways this could be awesome. How about an app that let's everyone connect to a site where a presentation is being given, and various people can annotate a presentation as it's happening. You can either work on your own copy or you could have a shared copy that everyone is writing ideas down on. Yeah...that would suck. I much prefer the meeting notes that often make little to no sense and are hard to correlate back to what was actually happening.

Since going green is all the rage, wouldn't be it be great to be able to go to a
meeting, and instead of getting tons of handouts everyone gets their on copy of
the hand out on their tablet that they can mark up any way the wish? Companies it
crap like that up.

Again, I believe over all Apple is a solid company. They are not (in general) my cup of tea, but I can see why people like them. However when Jobs says bullshit like this it drives nuts. Maybe...just maybe Steve, there are many people out there with different needs then your own, and maybe just maybe a more open approach would allow you to increase your market share even more. Or maybe you're simply not interested in that sort of thing. Your call.




*usually with a good bit of success.

**For those who are not into the Unix, kill -9 is how you cause any process to end on a *nix OS. OS X is built off FreeBSD, which in turn is similar to Unix. Got all that?

*** A solid argument can be made that it is in fact his job to push his agenda

Song Of The Day

I'd Rather Dance to a Pynchon Novel. The song is by the oh so wonderful Kids Explode. They recently called it a day as a band, but in their fairly short time they put a some very solid records. They are one the bands most responsible for my dipping a toe back into record buying.

I mostly enjoy the title because I can't make it through Pynchon novels, and I don't dance. So I imagine whatever it is someone wants you do do that is worse then dancing to a Pynchon novel must be pure hell.