Archive for June, 2005

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Sunday, June 26th, 2005

I have one Gang of Four song in my entire collection and it got played eight times last night on random. I don’t trust media players whose authors couldn’t even write a decent random function.

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One less non-free

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

So I’m now using musikCube for my audio. Not perfect, but good enough. And good enough is where it’s at.

Weaned myself off GetRight for the time being, but I’ll see how the alternative stands up to further abuse before uninstalling.

Assuming I can live with it, that leaves Free Download Manager and TUGzip as the only non-frees. Impressed.

Someone desperately needs to make WordPress work properly in wysiwyg. i.e., actual what-you-see-is-what-you-get. Your home page has a "post" button. You click it and start typing on the page. No admin mode. And a bold mode which doesn’t bring up my fucking bookmarks with the shortcut. is it that difficult to trap keyboard presses?

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