Muskblog: the sad, pathetic truth

I wanted one, but I didn’t really have the money, so I upgraded my old laptop’s hard drive. Then on Wednesday this week, just after being admired for it’s size or lackof, the 12″ PowerBook up and died. I took it to Simply Computing and sure enough it needed a new logic board.
I’d [...]

Well maybe not, but the recent updates to my G4 aimed at bringing digital audio out to Loretta combined with my NAD receiver and Paradigm speakers is a big improvement both in volume and clarity, not that I needed the former. I still don’t have a subwoofer for 5.1 surround sound, but more pressing [...]

I just up and bought it as I was tired of the limitations of my pay as you go phone which I got temporarily over two years ago and my mom was too as she couldn’t leave very long or very many voice mails.
I went with Bell, they are after all the largest corporate sponsor [...]

Mailsmith used to be the best mail program on the Mac platform. However it has gotten long in the tooth and has crashed far too much costing me many of the mails I’ve saved for years. I restored some, but I just got used to it crashing, waiting the long rumored update.

Now the [...]

During my whole upgrade ordeal, or perhaps one of the hopes I had from upgrading my G4 (Loretta after the Townes Van Zandt song), was to do more with my music collection. I’ve slowly been ripping it, ranking it, and making custom playlists. I’ve even started using smart playlists, folders, even Genius in [...]

I have an old G4 PowerMac Tower, a 400MHz “Sawtooth” model. One of the many selling features was the CPU was on a daughter card. It has served me and my family well since I bought it. I mainly use it to store and play music now, but when I learned it [...]

Today after lunch there was a fire in the building behind us. This is a classic Downtown Eastside Single Room Occupancy hotel. There is no doubt that illegal activity goes on inside, because it goes on in the alley. The usual break and entering, open drug use, fencing stolen goods, and of [...]

I’m using Recent Tunes again. It is no longer under development and the developer may have gone out of business, but once again the songs playing on my stereo via iTunes are going online. There are probably more sophisticate ways of doing this. After all we are up to iTunes 8 and [...]