wheatblog

personal weblog of James "Wheatbread" Martin

Month: April, 2003

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iTunes Music Store is the best scheme I’ve seen for selling music online. I gave it a spin at Steve’s house earlier tonight. Rumor has it that they’re working on a Windows version. That would be great for me (and would mean a lot of cash for them). Someday soon, I’m going to sit down [...]

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C’est finis. The move to the new host is complete. Looks like DNS has taken hold. So everyone should be served from the new servers now. It was a painless transition.

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There’s a line in Woody Allen’s most underated film, Stardust Memories, where the main character (played by Allen, of course) is asked if an idea in one of his films is an hommage to Fellini. He replied, “No, we stole that idea outright.” With that scene in mind, I hope everyone (but especially Garret) will [...]

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British Invasion: Part I After much frustration and deliberation, I’m switching hosts for all my projects from jtlnet.com to unitedhosting.co.uk. They’re a British firm, but the servers are actually located in Texas, so there you go. This post is partly a test to see if I managed to correctly change my FTP settings in Blogger. [...]

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Still on my philosophy kick: check out Hubert Dreyfus’ (Professor of Philosophy at Cal Berkeley) lectures on existentialism in literature and film and Heidegger’s Being and Time. These are in mp3, and are much smaller (about 7Megs/file) than the previous ones.