Mindbat

I use SoundJuicer to rip my music CDs into Ogg files, and play them in Rhythmbox. Both programs work great, with the exception of stripping special characters–like ‘,’ ‘<’ or ‘#’–from filenames. SoundJuicer has an option marked “Strip Special Characters,” but it doesn’t always work. Some special characters–anything with an accent mark above it, for [...]

A friend recently wrote to me about encountering her first instance of racism directed against her, because she isn’t Jewish. I started to reply with: “I’m surprised you’d find such prejudice alive and well in a Blue State, in the 21st century,” but stopped myself. How could I write those words? They’re a trite response [...]

Took the matchmaking survey offered by Glassbooth. Their survey won’t find your soulmate; it’s designed to find the presidential candidate whose stance on the issues matches your own. My results?  Seems Dennis Kucinich (D) is my best bet.  He’s against the Iraq war (and has voted against it every time it’s come up in Congress), [...]

I got my hands on a Mac Pro at work over the holiday, and the first thing I did was install Ubuntu Linux on it. Everything went smoothly using the new 7.10 version of Ubuntu, so I wanted to post how I did it: [Note: I'm assuming below that you're running OS 10.5 and have [...]