Off she would go in the evenings, dressed to kill: a gauzy antique top embroidered with the iridescent wing cases of exotic beetles, which she had found somewhere in the King’s Road; a pair of scuffed-up black German lederhosen complete with the ornamental metal belt known as a charivari; high inlaid boots of various coloured […]

from Jitter Recipes : Book 3

No bundled feed reader for
RSS/Atom feeds. (Yes, i have BerryBloglines. Yes, it blows.)
No Bluetooth File Transfer support. This seems odd, since the 8700 “supports” blootoof, but i guess they don’t mean “supports” as in, “you can transfer files with it.”
The Web browser incurs HTTP 406 errors! (Yes, 406! 406!!!). This seems to be caused by […]

first, install rael’s entries_index plugin.
then, install the codeswami patch: /downloads/codeswami-blosxom-date-patch.diff
(view a Pastie of the patch : http://pastie.caboo.se/10772
if you’re not familiar with unix patch files, you can apply this one with patch -p1 codeswami-blosxom-date-patch.diff
voila! now, the dates in your URLs don’t jump around when you go back to fix a typo in an old post.
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—–Original Message—–
From: jm3;
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:07 AM
To: AW
Subject: What do you mix into brown rice?

> I cooked a batch last night, really chewy and good, and
> I mixed in a ramen soup pack — I’m a master chef.

Food hacker.

JM3: you leave for your show in Jerusalem yet?
SZ: yeah - on sat from Olsztyn
SZ: leaving for Jerusalem today at 7:30
JM3: Good luck
SZ: thx
JM3: You taking photos
JM3: Of your travels?
SZ: i’m going thru my bring/dont bring mode
SZ: mel gibson collection dvd box set - no
JM3: Decorative Faberge eggs - yes
SZ: my “Iran..Discover the Magic” Tshirt […]

…the fewer the options.
I spent about six months with a RIM BlackBerry phone/pager and barely lived to tell the tale. This is my story.

Archaic ringtones. No MP3 support — This is a harsh awakening if you’re migrating from a Nokia, as I was.
No syncing with OS X machines, without purchasing buggy, third-party shareware
Connection Amnesia […]

For the Firefox users out there annoyed by Firefox’s handling of the feed: URI scheme mess, may I please present Feed:Eater, a greasemonkey script which silently replaces feed:http:// URLs with auto-subscribe links that work in your favorite online feed-reader!
Feed:Eater supports: Bloglines, Netvibes, My Yahoo, Google Reader, Pageflakes, NewsGator, AOL, Rojo, and Pluck.
Download it here: Install […]

well, the good news about buying the packaged version of MaxMSP (as opposed to the digital, download-only version) is that you get mac and PC installers in one package. And that’s about the only good thing.
The bad things?

Out of Date Software — the package ships with v4.5.7, while the website has 4.6. Now it’s […]