Spenard Spring Social
The Spenard Spring Social is tonight (April 25th) at Fiori d’Italia [map]. The bands start at 9:00 PM and the musicians and bands will include:
Wright’s band, One Blue Wall, was featured on the show Teenage Lobotomy broadcast from KRUA, the University of Alaska at Anchorage‘s radio station. I recorded the show with WireTap Studio and then edited it and leveled it with Audacity. The show had some mixing issues on occasion and I didn’t try correct those.
One Blue Wall on Teenage LobotomyMeta-Tweetup
tweetup n. A real world meeting between two or more people who know each other through the online Twitter service. (Source Word Spy.)
meta-tweetup© n. A tweetup held for the purpose of planning and organizing future tweetups.*
If you are interested in organizing Anchorage-area tweetups join @MKinMotion and @jmproffitt on Friday, March 13 at Modern Dwellers Chocolate Lounge (map) at 7:00 p.m. For more information see the announcement at Alaska Tweets.
*The first recorded use on the term “meta-tweetup” on the Internet was made on Twitter by me. “meta-tweetup” is licensed by me to be used freely by everyone under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
Except for @jmproffitt. He has to pay 1¢.
BlogBites: Old Dog, New Tricks
BlogBites, a five year old collaboration with my good friend @darkjohn (also at darkjohn.wordpress.com), is getting a new lease on life thanks to twitter and twitterfeed. BlogBites and twitter go together like Chinese food and chocolate pudding. Follow @blogbites and check out the web site – blogbites.com.
Anchorage International Film Festival 2008
The schedule for the 2008 film festival was announced today. AIFF published an online guide and schedule in PDF format. Mac users users can download the schedule in .ics format to import into iCal. Everone else can import or bookmark the Google calendar below.
National Credit Audit Corporation Scam
April 28, 2008
The Nation
33 Irving Place
New York, NY 10003
To Whom It May Concern,
Amazon Unbox and Subtitles
I purchased Save The Green Planet
iTunes 7.6 (29) and Radiohead's In Rainbows
Since the last iTunes update – 7.6 (29) on OS X Leopard and 7.6.0.29 on Windows XP – I can’t play any tracks from Radiohead‘s album In Rainbows. These are the 160 kbps MP3 files that I purchased directly from Radiohead last year in their Internet “honesty box” experiment. I paid £4.45 for the album which seemed a fair price for both parties in the transaction. (At the then current exchange rate it showed up on my credit card as $9.05 US.)
Now I can’t play the album in iTunes on OS X or Windows. But it plays just fine in Quicktime 7.4.1 (14) on OS X and Quicktime 7.4 on Windows. And it plays fine in every other media player that I have tried – Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, etc. So what’s going on? It seems unlikely that this is just a coincidence when combined with the fact that Radiohead and Apple have started selling In Rainbows on iTunes. Is there something more sinister at work? Is Radiohead trying to punish the reported 62% of downloaders who paid nothing for the album? How can I get to the bottom of this?
Update: I downloaded the album again using the original download link from my sales receipt and it plays now. The files from the download did not match what I already had in iTunes. Apparently my version of the MP3s had been modified so that they did not work with iTunes (but did with every other media player). It probably happened when I used iTunes to add the album artwork to the MP3 metadata. All very odd but not sinister. Anyway, mad props to Radiohead for still allowing me to download the album four months after I originally purchased it.