Well, they’re opening one in Toronto. Looks like the Rest of Canada has to wait until at least the middle of 2005 before more Canadian Apple Stores will be opened.
Come on Apple Store Calgary! They’re just finishing up renovations on Market Mall - that would have been perfect timing to sneak in the black barricades for construction of an Apple Store… Oh, well…
Actually, wait - that’s too close to my house. I can’t afford having an Apple Store that close. I’m still looking for a way to fund my impending addiction to the iTMSCanada…
I was hoping to use GarageBand instead of Audacity as part of my recording suite, but the stars aren’t aligned…
The only mic I have on my desktop G4 is my iSight camera, which sounds pretty good, but runs at 48KHz. GarageBand only likes 44.1KHz sources, so it doesn’t work.
Doh. Looks like I’ll be sticking with Audacity. There wasn’t a real reason to switch, just that I like GarageBand a lot ;-)
It’s all been said about the movie already, but man does Pixar rock. The story was rich, deep and detailed. As were the characters. Many of the scenes could have been used as matte backgrounds in a Bond film. This was by far the best movie I’ve seen in a long, long time. It’s kind of weird - after the movie starts, you just forget that it’s animated. It fades away and doesn’t get in the way. Not like another movie that kinda hits you over the head repeatedly with the “Hey, Look at the kewl animation we’re doing! Isn’t it realistic?” card…
Someone please hit these spammers with a clue stick - WE DON’T WANT TO HAVE YOUR ADS ON OUR WEBSITES, AND WE WILL SPEND TIME AND ENERGY REMOVING IT! They are doing the equivalent of taking a crap on our front porch. We could ignore it, but that would be just plain nasty, and really wouldn’t benefit anyone (except for the spammer, who has an insatiable urge to defile any and all public spaces).
I just checked the webserver logs, and the first 2 podcasts have been downloaded a total of 237 times so far. Holy crap! I would have guessed maybe half a dozen times. Wow. I just did some basic math on that, and that’s over a gigabyte of podcast downloady goodness! (thank goodness for campus bandwidth ;-) ) As Adam would say: “Boing!”
And I’ve gotten some interesting feedback as well. I found the podcasting experience strangely cathartic, so I plan to make a bit of time to keep experimenting with it. I spent a few minutes over the weekend messing around with GarageBand to make the requisite Cheesy Podcast Intro. It should be Just Cheesy Enough…
Lazy binding is the smarter way to initialize variables only once, and only when needed. David LeBer just posted a couple of articles showing how lazy binding is useful in WebObjects apps.
It would be cool if David provided an RSS feed with enclosures, so students could just subscribe to that with iPodderX and have the audio pulled down when it’s released, instead of having to keep visiting a page to see if there is new audio…
Late last week, I went to the Apple Support website to send a question about a repair for my iPod remote (the cord that goes from the remote to the iPod was pulling out of its plug, and I wanted to fix it). I was expecting them to reply with something like “We have a repair program, and for $X for the part and $Y for shipping, we can fix it for you.”. Instead, I came into the office today and found an unexpected package from Apple - it was a replacement part, free of charge.
