I remember looking at CD baby some time ago but never gave it much thought, I guess I just never found anything on the site I liked. Then as I was browsing video game information I came upon the NEOTOKYO HL2 Mod which you can read up on at the following link to NEOTOKYO website. This has been in development since October 2004 and is finally finished and should be released soon. Digging through the videos you will soon discover the music is top notch and they know this as they are selling the soundtrack online through CD Baby. Follow the below links to read more about it and listen to the music from the album.
Once you order has been shipped you will receive one of the best shipment confirmation emails I have ever read.
“Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with
sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure
it was in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over
the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money
can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party
marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of
Portland waved “Bon Voyage!” to your package, on its way to you, in
our private CD Baby jet on this day, Monday, June 15th.
I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Your picture is on our wall as “Customer of the Year.” We’re all
exhausted but can’t wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Sigh…”
I have never been a fan of the F-Spot Photo manager that comes with Ubuntu, I always preferred the way Picasa would organize my photos even creating directories to keep everything grouped together. Picasa for Linux has been around for a while it is basically the Windows version wrapped in a Wine wrapper. It works fine but it is obvious that it is not a native Linux app.
Despite that I still prefer it over all the Linux offerings so far. One should always be on the lookout for new applications when running Linux, applications can evolve rapidly in the open source environment.
As my latest install is the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 9.04 I was pleased to find the Latest Picasa 3.0 can be had in a 64-bit version. Check it out Picasa 3.0 for Linux (beta).
Well it has been about a week now and my upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 has been overall pleasant. This go around I opted for the 64bit version to take full advantage of my CPU and decided to go for the ext4 filesystem. Was not sure how that change would work so I spent a full 3 days backing up data.
After the install I did notice the system to be more responsive and noticeable quicker. Isn’t that what an OS upgrade should do, so many years with Windows and every upgrade seemed to slow you system down and major upgrades needed better hardware.
The only downside so far is the lack of iPhone support, which is not really the fault of linux but rather Apple’s reluctance to let people use the iPhone the way they want. I have heard many a fanboy say how locked down Windows was and all the mentions of DRM, never realizing that Apple had the same restrictions and DRM schemes. That has changed some with iTunes now giving you access to DRM free music but you had to pay for that upgrade.
I love my iPhone but it may be time for a change, it has taken a while but the rest of the market is starting to “get it” and catch up.
The only thing I needed to get my 64bit Ubuntu working was having to install the 32 bit libraries so that non 64 bit applications would work. Adobe even has an alpha version of Flash for 64bit linux available Adobe Labs - Alpha 64-bit Adobe Flash Player 10.
Well I finally got around to tinkering with Tumblr themes. I had created a complete original from scratch but towards the end I was not completely happy with it. So I opted to modify the Fold theme which I always liked but felt it was a bit basic for my needs.
I modified the menu I had created for my original theme and added it above the search box and I also created a right side bar type area to add the the tumbleroll and give me a place to add additional links and such.
I will probably be tweaking it for a while but at least it is active.
Wow where did the time go 7:26 PM and I am still at work. Time to leave.
Use the Konami Code while at Facebook to see some lens fair when you scroll and such. ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A ENTER
working, working, working…
application I was using to test some css is failing so I am finally taking a break and noticing how late it is.
