Found it myself. *cranky*

Serendipity has been the catchword for this gig, man. First it was me half-heartedly scanning the new dates with the expectation that nothing would be anywhere near me, only to discover that there would be a show in Toronto and it would actually be during the window of time that I would be there. Then, oh_johnny_ was not only able to come with, but picked up ( Read more... )

Re-installing iTunes and resetting the iPod seems to be working so far. *crosses fingers that this continues* I have been reminded that as I have named my electronics after the Saints universe, I should perhaps expect them to behave like divas and/or assholes upon occasion. :P

10 weird and wonderful Christmas cover versions. Some of these are ( Read more... )

I received an Amazon.ca gift certificate from my godparents yesterday, which is what they get me every year. (Well, it used to be for a bricks-and-mortar bookstore, once upon a time.) Slightly inconvenient that it's for the Canadian site, but I will just have to order stuff soon and ship it care of the parents, and bring it home with me after my ( Read more... )

*kisses* to beelzezuk and nene for the Yorkshire Hard Water Tea rec. I like it. It's very damn close, enough so that it's not jarring at me for not being Red Rose. I also quite like that it's from the same area as my dad. :D ( Read more... )

I allowed myself the night off to just fuck around online and with iTunes (we're very much still getting acquainted, but thanks to revid, I now know that the wee checkmarks are pretty damn important *facepalm*) since I was up at ass o'clock to go to the dentist. Which, btw, went shockingly well. We discussed possible solutions and she explained to me ( Read more... )

Whee, alliteration ( Read more... )

This was on the BBC News web site a couple of days ago, about the new DRM-free format available for songs from EMI Records. The salient bit of the article:

News site Ars Technica was among the first to discover that downloaded tracks free of Fairplay have embedded within them the full name and account information, including e-mail address, of who ( Read more... )

As posted verbatim by keskiyonaurinko in linguaphiles:
iTunes Music Store now features a sub-section called 'iTunes U,' which is free material recorded from Universities. Among this material is language lessons; for instance, there is a complete thing for Elementary Greek.

I thought that was very cool, and something y'all might be interested in. :)

You Were Mostly Nice This Year!
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