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After a few weeks of thinking there was something wrong with my little iPod Shuffle, I found out that in shuffle-mode, the iPod Shuffle can’t/wont play back certain kinds of audio files.
Just change it back to non-shuffle and the Podcasts will play fine!
From support.apple.com:
When iPod shuffle is set to shuffle songs it will play all the audio files on iPod shuffle that are not audiobooks. Podcasts of type .m4b or AAC will not play on iPod shuffle when it is in shuffle mode, which is the intended behavior, although a podcast of type .mp3 or .wav may play while in shuffle mode. To play an audiobook or podcast that is on iPod shuffle, set the switch on iPod shuffle to play in order.
Wow. All this heartache over one tiny little switch switched to the wrong position.
The FAC is a new organisation for advocacy of music artists’ rights in the digital distribution space. Among the Artists already onboard are Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead and Billy Bragg. One interesting thing about their “charter” is that they are advocating for artists to retain ultimate rights to their work, which in case you didn’t know, isn’t how it normally works in the major-label system.
“…We speak with one voice to help artists strike a new bargain with record companies, digital distributors and others…”
As long as this organisation doesn’t become a new RIAA, by suing the pants off music lovers, or advocating network filtering by ISP’s, I’m all for this. Labels get too much for too little while screwing over the fans and artists at almost every turn.
If you’re listening, FAC, please don’t become another RIAA. OK?
Some quotes from the Press Release (pdf HERE):
ARTISTS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN FOR NEW DIGITAL RIGHTS
The Verve, Radiohead, Jools Holland, Kaiser Chiefs, Kate Nash, Robbie Williams and Billy Bragg are among dozens of musicians and performers calling for changes to the law and record industry
[...]
The new organisation will campaign for specific changes to the laws governing the music industry and how business is conducted, so that:
• artists always retain ultimate ownership of their music • all agreements between artists and others are conducted in a fair and transparent manner • rights’ holders have a duty of care to the originator of those rights, and must always explain how any agreement may affect how their work is exploited.[...]The Coalition will begin by focusing on six areas where it is seeking change:
1. An agreement by the music industry that artists should receive fair compensation whenever their business partners receive an economic return from the exploitation of the artists’ work. 2.All transfers of copyright should be by license rather than by assignment, and limited to 35 years. 3.The making available right should be monetized on behalf of featured artistes and all other performers. 4. Copyright owners to be obliged to follow a ‘use it or lose it’ approach to the copyrights they control. 5. The rights for performers should be the same as those for authors (songwriters, lyricists and composers). 6. A change to UK copyright law which will end the commercial exploitation of unlicensed music purporting to be used in conjunction with ‘critical reviews’.
I find this one interesting because it doesn’t actually promise any money. Instead it offers an opportunity to help build a church in Africa, and accuses the reader of needing redemption, being a sinner (who isn’t, right?) etc…
From: david@teceng.net
I am Prophet David Johnson, I went for a prayer mission in HAITI and the Lord revealed so many things about you to me.
I see things and I reveal to people, something terrible which I have seen will happen to you, I just have to tell you, you will lose two important people you love very much, and evil will visit you personally, troubles and problems will leave with you, the things you never never believe that can happen to you, will happen. It has been dated when it will start very soon, sooner than you think.
The Lord reveal everything to me, and your email address appeared to me, after reading this message, if you believe me keep this message for your self alone do not share it with anybody, but if you don’t believe me delete this message and talk to your family, friends and relatives, tell them about the message so when things start happening to you, they will be informed, everything that will happen to you is spiritual, nobody will understand, when you even tell people what is happening to you they will never believe and understand because it is spiritual.
I have warned you now, we can prevent all this, but only if you believe God, but if you don’t believe God, wait and see what will happen.

Lord has done so much for you, that you have failed to recognize and you have been cheating God, at this time your email address was revealed to me three times, that’s why I am contacting you, do not think this is a joke or just an email because I know what will be going on in your mind, you are free to believe and disbelief this message, but when evil starts happening there is no going back, I warn you it has been destined and dated, it will start sooner than you think.
As you are reading this message I still see doubt in you, but I will stop here. If you want to prevent all this evil that will hit you soon, I will know and I will tell you what to do.
God reveal to me that you have a lot of doubt in your mind that you will doubt this message.
The reason for writing this message, is because of the strong challenge which you must have to follow to prevent all this evil which will surround you sooner, you will not see them and you can never see them, because it is spiritual, when it starts it cannot stop, it will be as if God has giving you to Satan.
Look this is not a joke, this is what I have seeing and the only prevention is for you not to doubt and do what I will tell you to do, for your soul to be covered in God’s harms. We have to take you back from the Satan if you are ready to follow God’s instructions I will tell you what to do.
I can still see even as I’m writing this message that there is plenty of doubt inside your heart and mind, but you can over power your doubt, only if the evil leaving in your heart will allow you, it will be very difficult for you to do what God’s want you to do, but you can do it only if you put doubt aside.
God told me that we will win you back, but it will be difficult because your heart has been eating by doubt, my only advice to you to remove doubt and keep this message to you self, if you don’t take my advice wait and see. This is the only way out for you to avoid this evil, you have to sow a seed in the house of the Lord, there is a church we are building in Africa, and we want you to sow a seed in contributing on that church where your name will be writing as one of the people that contributed to stand the house of the Lord where people will enter everyday and pray for you who contributed to put up the structure.
The only way out of this predicament is you must have to contribute for the building of the church, your name must be writing in the church as one of the sponsors that is where your name will be written in the book of life, the book of joy and the book of happiness things will now turn around, when the church is completed everyday service your name will be announced for the church congregation to pray for you.

So you have to sow that seed that is the only message that will take you out of this evil, you name must be writing in that church before it is completed. There’s no way back we will beg you to do this because this is the only way for the evil to turn around, I’m a prophet I don’t talk too much. But if you fail to do what you have been told now, when the predicament start even if you give all you have to the church at that time it will not work, I am warning and begging don’t ignore this message.
The church will go on 40 days fasting for you starting from the day you sow a seed for the building of the church. Contact Pastor Emmanuel Anderson, tell Pastor Anderson that you want to contribute for the building of the new church, do not tell him about what I told you, just tell him you want to contribute then ask him how you can sow a seed, do this as quick as possible, nothing is too small and nothing is too big for the Lord do not cheat God again, do this I have told you.
Give what you have never giving before, give what you feel your heart tells you, remember nothing is too small and nothing is too big for the Lord, contact Pastor Emmanuel Anderson on this e-mail (pastoranderson@faithconvenantministry.co.cc) and tell him you want to sow a seed, after you have done that, then wait and see how blessing will rain upon your life each day, how you will swim in the rivers of success and joy.
I have given you the information and message which I was asked to give you, so now it is now left for you to believe it and do what you where told or forget it. I will never write you again or reply you, I have told you what I have to tell you, after reading this message you only have two things to do, either you follow the message or not.
I wish you the best in life.
Have a blessed day.
Regards,
Prophet David Johnson.
I find this one interesting because it doesn’t actually promise any money. Instead it offers an opportunity to help build a church in Africa, and accuses the reader of needing redemption, being a sinner (who isn’t, right?) etc…
From: david@teceng.net
I am Prophet David Johnson, I went for a prayer mission in HAITI and the Lord revealed so many things about you to me.
I see things and I reveal to people, something terrible which I have seen will happen to you, I just have to tell you, you will lose two important people you love very much, and evil will visit you personally, troubles and problems will leave with you, the things you never never believe that can happen to you, will happen. It has been dated when it will start very soon, sooner than you think.
The Lord reveal everything to me, and your email address appeared to me, after reading this message, if you believe me keep this message for your self alone do not share it with anybody, but if you don’t believe me delete this message and talk to your family, friends and relatives, tell them about the message so when things start happening to you, they will be informed, everything that will happen to you is spiritual, nobody will understand, when you even tell people what is happening to you they will never believe and understand because it is spiritual.
I have warned you now, we can prevent all this, but only if you believe God, but if you don’t believe God, wait and see what will happen.

Lord has done so much for you, that you have failed to recognize and you have been cheating God, at this time your email address was revealed to me three times, that’s why I am contacting you, do not think this is a joke or just an email because I know what will be going on in your mind, you are free to believe and disbelief this message, but when evil starts happening there is no going back, I warn you it has been destined and dated, it will start sooner than you think.
As you are reading this message I still see doubt in you, but I will stop here. If you want to prevent all this evil that will hit you soon, I will know and I will tell you what to do.
God reveal to me that you have a lot of doubt in your mind that you will doubt this message.
The reason for writing this message, is because of the strong challenge which you must have to follow to prevent all this evil which will surround you sooner, you will not see them and you can never see them, because it is spiritual, when it starts it cannot stop, it will be as if God has giving you to Satan.
Look this is not a joke, this is what I have seeing and the only prevention is for you not to doubt and do what I will tell you to do, for your soul to be covered in God’s harms. We have to take you back from the Satan if you are ready to follow God’s instructions I will tell you what to do.
I can still see even as I’m writing this message that there is plenty of doubt inside your heart and mind, but you can over power your doubt, only if the evil leaving in your heart will allow you, it will be very difficult for you to do what God’s want you to do, but you can do it only if you put doubt aside.
God told me that we will win you back, but it will be difficult because your heart has been eating by doubt, my only advice to you to remove doubt and keep this message to you self, if you don’t take my advice wait and see. This is the only way out for you to avoid this evil, you have to sow a seed in the house of the Lord, there is a church we are building in Africa, and we want you to sow a seed in contributing on that church where your name will be writing as one of the people that contributed to stand the house of the Lord where people will enter everyday and pray for you who contributed to put up the structure.
The only way out of this predicament is you must have to contribute for the building of the church, your name must be writing in the church as one of the sponsors that is where your name will be written in the book of life, the book of joy and the book of happiness things will now turn around, when the church is completed everyday service your name will be announced for the church congregation to pray for you.

So you have to sow that seed that is the only message that will take you out of this evil, you name must be writing in that church before it is completed. There’s no way back we will beg you to do this because this is the only way for the evil to turn around, I’m a prophet I don’t talk too much. But if you fail to do what you have been told now, when the predicament start even if you give all you have to the church at that time it will not work, I am warning and begging don’t ignore this message.
The church will go on 40 days fasting for you starting from the day you sow a seed for the building of the church. Contact Pastor Emmanuel Anderson, tell Pastor Anderson that you want to contribute for the building of the new church, do not tell him about what I told you, just tell him you want to contribute then ask him how you can sow a seed, do this as quick as possible, nothing is too small and nothing is too big for the Lord do not cheat God again, do this I have told you.
Give what you have never giving before, give what you feel your heart tells you, remember nothing is too small and nothing is too big for the Lord, contact Pastor Emmanuel Anderson on this e-mail (pastoranderson@faithconvenantministry.co.cc) and tell him you want to sow a seed, after you have done that, then wait and see how blessing will rain upon your life each day, how you will swim in the rivers of success and joy.
I have given you the information and message which I was asked to give you, so now it is now left for you to believe it and do what you where told or forget it. I will never write you again or reply you, I have told you what I have to tell you, after reading this message you only have two things to do, either you follow the message or not.
I wish you the best in life.
Have a blessed day.
Regards,
Prophet David Johnson.
My friend was getting this when attempting to publish a new post. In his case, it was the Google XML Sitemaps Plugin, which is a totally unnecessary plugin, since WordPress sites are already so loved by Google. I got tipped of by this WordPress support forum thread where the WP-Bible plugin was causing the problem.
If you have this problem, try turning off all your plugins. Then, turn them on one-at-a-time, each time attempting to un-publish and re-publish a test post. This will tell you which plugin is causing the problem.
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This spam email was just too funny to me not to do. Gosh! I feel so sorry for anyone that is so computer illiterate that they could fall for something like this.
Good Day,
I have 100% legal lucrative business
proposal which will be of mutual benefit to
us,If you are Interested, kindly mail me at
(curtisanthony212@ymail.com) for more
details.
Thanks and awaiting your response.
Curtis Anthony
From: honyeeee1@singnet.com.sg
Subject: 100% legal proposal
Date: September 27, 2008 2:42:04 AM PDT
To: curtisay@wlla.com
Reply-To: curtisanthony343@jmail.co.za
MORE SCAM EMAIL MASHUPS
Here’s what I did that finally solved this problem after 2 full days of suffering and searching for answers.
PROBLEM: In MOTU Digital Performer (DP5), at least 2 of the Plug-Ins that came with the software are missing from within the program. Both of the ones I know are missing for sure are Parametric Equalizers, which is an odd coincidence.
The following is a copy of a forum post I made to MotuNation.com. I never post to forums so this is an indication of how desperate I’m getting.
Please help me. This is driving me crazy.
Suddenly my MW Equlaizer and my Para EQ Plugins don’t show up in the list of plugins available from the Mixer. They do get scanned/loaded during the splash screen at startup. They’re just not listed via the mixer or via the Audio Menu (Audio>Audio Plug-Ins).
This is what I’ve tried, not necessarily in this order and some of these things I’ve done multiple times:
The .bundle files are there in HardDrive/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/MAS/ but they just wont become available via the UI. I have been googling like mad since yesterday and getting nowhere. I’m going crazy.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
http://www.bigbluelounge.com/forums/vie … p?p=351040 …This Person on this other forum is having the same problem it sounds like, but no solution there (I will post the solution here and there if I can find one) …Interesting that it’s the 2 built-in EQ’s for both of us… Interesting and completely horrible.
Please help me if you can. Thank You.
Here in one post, I will start collecting curious little spam messages and emails I get. These aren’t interesting enough to get their own posts, but I still like to be found in searches for their emails, urls etc.

Hi sweetie!I’d like to avoid any confusion, I’m writing this on behalf of my mother. She was searching for guys online and came upon your irresistible profile (her words). She’s single and HOT! She wants to experience new things, meet a great guy for dating and more! She’s very alluring, men turn around when she walks? she has very nice curves. She likes going to the movies, drinking coffee and enjoys smart conversation. She plays a few musical instruments but prefers the cello. She’s humorous, romantic and easy-going. I’d like to add that she’s a very perceptive and spiritual person. I hope you’ll write back, you sure won’t regret it. FYI, this is MY account, so don..t reply directly to this message Instead, please use her email address, MarieBashor at gmail..
Well thank you very much
http://myspace.com/269092691
In the morning I’m leaving to go to Burning Man, but this time I wont be merely attending. Some friends of mine have brought me onboard to direct one of two second-units for a documentary film called, at least tentatively, “As The Dust Settles.”
I’m totally thrilled to be working on another film project with Susan Buice, Arin Crumley and Joe Griffin, who I worked with on Four Eyed Monsters, as well as the producer, Mike Hedge who is a super amazing guy on many levels and is doing an awesome job putting together everything and organizing it all. And I’m also super excited to meet and work with all the other really talented people who have been selected as the core crew for this project. It looks like a really amazing team has been out together.
I know it’s going to be a bit challenging to work out there in that environment for a number of reasons, but if anyone can do it, we can! Hellz Yeah!
Official site is asthedustsettles.com
I’ll check back in as soon as I can.
What is ‘oozing out of our ground?’ Anyone?
I should mention that I did have rainbows in my sprinkler spray more than twenty years ago. I guess this means that rural coastal Northern California well-water was hit first and then it spread to muni water supplies.
wtf.
2 Videos from Jack Conte’s YouTube Channel
This is an interesting video. Reminds a little of the film, “The Science of Sleep.“
And this one is cool because it shows the recording process of the song.
So who is Jack Conte? I have no idea. He’s awesome though.
Here’s his MySpace, his Last.FM Page, and where you can buy his EP “Nightmares and Daydreams” on CDBaby, and the same record via the iTunes Store.
I can’t afford to buy music, so maybe Jack will feel my pain and hook me up. Jack? Haha.
When trying to install Adobe AIR on my Mac running 10.5.4, I was getting this annoying message:

Error: Adobe AIR Installer requires Adobe AIR to be installed. What?
This application requires Adobe AIR to function. Please download the latest version of the runtime from http://www.adobe.com/go/getair, then launch the application again.
Which is weird because why would Adobe AIR require Adobe AIR to install? Isn’t that like… impossible?
I found the solution!



OSX Adobe AIR Installer Works Now!
I’m not going to try to be an expert on comparing trackers and/or sites, especially when the folks at File Share Freak already compiled a pretty awesome list of Music Trackers.
Oh damn, it hurts! I’m still mourning the death of Oink! Please, please, please, if you’re reading this and you can hook me up with the latest thing… [waffles?] …I’m dying over here!
Anyhow, back to the blogging.
I usually start off with a ScrapeTorrent search. It’s a meta-search that searches several of the top trackers like The Pirate Bay etc… There’s also YouTorrent.com, which is also a meta-search, but I have found that ScrapeTorrent.com has the better results… At least that’s how it seems to me.