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Archive for November, 2004

Blues Explosion @ Empty Bottle

Saturday, November 6th, 2004

I checked my email at 9:30 and saw that Jam Mail had send me a free pass to see the 10 pm Blues Explosion show at the Metro. I hit print and hit the road. The interesting thing about the Blues Explosion is that by all rights they should be REALLY popular now, considering the [...]

Colder/Home Video @ Empty Bottle

Friday, November 5th, 2004

This was such a great show. There are times when I’m at a show and I’m having such a perfectly good time that I feel like a dog with my head out the window. This was one of those shows. Let me begin by saying that no matter how much new music you listen to [...]

SMS from Mac OS X

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004

My guy lost and I’m working through it. Let’s talk about something more positive. I knew that I could use my Bluetooth phone with my Bluetooth-enabled mac to do basic caller ID functions. I’ve also used my mac to act as a dialer for my phone. But what I didn’t know, was that I could [...]

Free Music from Type Records

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004

I realize I should be posting something about my voting experience, or how the race is going, but I think that topic is being covered more than adequately this evening. So we’ll leave it at that my guy is down, and he really needs Ohio. Let’s move on. Type Records is once again giving away [...]

Silverkeeper for OS X

Monday, November 1st, 2004

Last week my mac flipped out and became totally unstable. It would do a hard freeze 10 minutes after booting up. I ran Disk Utility and Diskwarrior to no avail. I booted from an external device. I disconnected all my USB and Firewire devices. Nothing helped. And then the problems vanished as quickly as they [...]