A new version the application I use to store my passwords and generate new ones has been released.
KeePass 1.01
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Why DRM will kill mobile music
Carlo Longino has written an interesting piece on how DRM will kill the mobile music.
I’ve had some similar experiences to those described in the post. When contacting an artist, Mustasch, about what to do if the copy protection on their latest album made it unplayable, or stopped me from copying the songs to my mp3 player, I was told that if I couldn’t rip them I could download the songs illegally from the internet.
When it comes to copy protected songs bought online I’ve been instructed only to buy songs that allows me to burn them as a music-cd and then rip them as unprotected mp3s so I can play them on my mp3 player.
So what is the point of the copy protection now again? Or maybe my use case is so uncommon that it isn’t considered a problem. Who knows. I know one thing, I want to be able to pay for the music I listen to, as long as I can listen to it easily on any of my devices. Making it more difficult for a paying customer is not the way to go.
Flickr insert
While looking for a way to display a set of thumbnails in a post I found a WordPress plugin that lets you include photos from flickr. Unfortunately it uses fopen which my hosting provider apparently does not allow. Looks like there is some xmlrpc package installed though so I guess I could rewrite the plugin to use that instead.
Update: Found a solution. Rewrite Flicker Insert using the method described for a similar plugin on this page. You learn something new every day I guess.
Posting from flickr
WordPress
I’ve just migrated some of my few and boring blog entries from MSN Spaces to see if I like blogging with WordPress better. If I decide this is better I probably should try and customize the theme, shouldn’t be too difficult. I really should remove the awful web page I have as well and possibly replace the main page with the blog.
First order of business though is to find a plugin that lets me add images and photos to blog entries. That is something that is made very easy at MSN Spaces. One alternative would be to use flickr’s blogging services, guess I should try to see how it works.
allofmp3.com
Today I took the plunge, created a temporary visa card, registered on allofmp3.com and sent them some money. It all went very smooth, and then after I installed their little browse, preview and download application I bought some albums. When buying you can choose from a multitude of formats, wma, mp3, uncompressed and so on, and the bitrate. You pay per MB downloaded so mp3s with a somewhat high bitrate seemed best to me. My phone can only play mp3s so..
Why are other online music stores not this simple? For a service this simple to use I wouldn’t mind paying more though. ~$1 per album is way below the limit I am willing to pay for an album, if I get the songs in a format I can use.
Albums I bought:
Gorillaz – Demon Days
Green Day – American Idiot
Audioslave – Out of Exile
Foo Fighters – In Your Honor
I wonder if any of them are any good?
Copper comic
The latest copper comic is well drawn as usual and is so spot on it is almost not funny. Now when I moved recently I threw away so much stuff that it boggles my mind when I try to figure out how I managed to store it all. I really need to stop thinking “I might need this sometime far off into the future” whenever I really should just throw old unused stuff away. Are all humans inherently pack rats?
Sony Ericsson k750i troubles
No idea how it started but my relatively new cell phone started malfunctioning. First the built in camera application stopped working. It simply wouldn’t start. Then while I was trying to troubleshoot I noticed that if I didn’t remove the battery before starting the phone I wouldn’t get any reception. The tip I got from SE support was to install the latest version of the software for the phone which I did.
A process which required me to install new drivers, applications and what not on my windows machine. Why does everything have to be so difficult?
Anyways, that didn’t help but resulted in the shortcut function of the phone resetting everytime I turned the phone off. Great. So now I’ve turned it in for service, extremely annoying.. I miss my radio đ
Comic about that gta:sa thing
Doubt the comic author could’ve picked an easier target, funny non the less.
Star Wars Oots
Saw a fan-made comic strip on the giant in the playground forum that should make most people laugh. Well, I guess one condition is that they find Order of the stick funny đ But then again, who doesn’t? đ
