Archive for June, 2008

oEmbed Will Simplify Cross-pollination of Content

June 15th, 2008

Recently, I presented a workshop to aspiring and established musicians on “Enhancing Your Exposure on the Web: The Electronic Press Kit”. Part of my advice was to use the free bandwidth of other sites to host images, audio and video clips by embedding media on their own sites.

Someone asked what I meant by “embedding”. I [...]


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Nomadic Programming

June 15th, 2008

Matthew Bass, on his blog MatthewBass.com, talks about being a being a nomadic programmer.

“Recently, I’ve started doing what I’ve termed ‘nomadic programming.’ Namely, spending the day roaming between various wi-fi hotspots instead of working from home. This has worked really well for me. So well, in fact, that I think the concept needs to start [...]

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Jim McKay

June 9th, 2008

In 1972, I watched with horror and, I admit, some dark fascination, as ABC sports anchor Jim McKay described the capture, holding and ultimate death of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches.
It was my first exposure to the concept of political terrorism. I was, of cource, familiar with civil disobedience as a tool of revolution, and [...]


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GoogleUpdate.exe?

June 9th, 2008

What is GoogleUpdate.exe and why won’t Google allow me to uninstall it?
I think it appeared in the list of services after I reinstalled Google Gears.

I have uninstalled every Google program (Gears, GTalk, Google Desktop, etc.), and disabled GoogleUpdate.exe in the list of services. I even deleted every Google reference in the registry.
When I reboot, however, [...]


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