SF Skyline shown with permission by photographer Lane Hartwell 

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Tips for Using WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin

Keith Dsouza has made a superb Wordpress plugin that ‘automatically’ upgrades your Wordpress blog software when they’ve released an update. Wordpress is constantly enhancing their product, and due to it’s global popularity they are forced to constantly enhance the security of the code base, both of which mean they update the code base 4-8 times [...]

Ryan Junell’s Video for Spoon with Double Triple

Ryan made a fierce video fwith Phillip Niemeyer of Double Triple for and with Spoon. It seems inspired by Harry Smith (e.g. Heaven and Earth Magic).
Whatever. It’s pretty fracking cool. Watch the video.
Don’t look at these they are just stills. Watch the video.

Not So Impressed with My Eye-Fi

I‘ll admit it, I was thrilled when I heard about the Eye-Fi, a wifi-enable SD memory card that can upload photo files straight to many photo websites. I’ve been frustrated recently that though my camera phone can upload photos to the web, my good camera still need a computer and internet connection to do so. [...]

Miro Rocks for Watching Internet TV and Videos

I‘m really enjoying the new launch of the Miro internet TV player. You can use Miro to find, organize and watch both syndicated and one-off internet-based videos and video programs.Their guide features 2,500 “channels” of internet video series, most being 1-5 minute episodic offerings, some of which are quite good. Miro also has a [...]

Not Impressed with Amazon Unbox / Tivo Download

Last week Molly and I “rented” our first movie from Amazon’s Unbox that connects to most networked Tivo.
We gave it an overall review of lame.
Yes we were able to “rent” a movie from our couch and have it get pushed to our TV, but it took 6 hours to download before it could even [...]

Daft Punk was *Fierce*

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I went to the Daft Punk show last Friday at The Greek thanks to Fauxnique and Silence Fiction.
It was off the fracking chizzain!
Daft Punk’s live show is *fierce* and well worth the wait. This guy Max said it was mind blowing
The videos on YouTube are low-res and aurally demanding, but give it a second and [...]

Last Saturday a Robot Saved My Life

Eddie saved me from a needless night on the couch, a couple week ago.
Instead I got to see the animatronic melodic absurdness of Captured By Robots just roll-down-the-hill block at Bottom of my the Hill
What the “band” lacks in music writing genius, they make up for with mad, mad genius. (I’m not repeating the word [...]