a crank’s progress

OS X: Free up Hard Disk space:

Really good advice here. I saved 1.4 GBs using just the Delocalizer app.

I saved 1.2 Gb: good deal.

Now playing:After All by David Bowie from the album “The Man Who Sold The World” | Get it

My WordPress Stuff:

I have installed WPBlacklist but it isn’t working! What’s wrong? This might be due to any of the following reasons:

1. Have you activated the WPBlacklist plugin from the Plugins panel on the WP Administration screen? If not, you need to activate the WPBlacklist plugin.
2. Do you get PHP errors [...]

Trust me, he said, it’s going to be fun:

The pain in our legs this morning, I like to feel, is because we spent yesterday kicking away at the horizon. It broke. The view’s great.

But they can turn a phrase . . .

Now playing:Oh, Sister [Live] by Bob Dylan And The Rolling Thunder Review from [...]

Since my NaNoWriMo adventure was done almost as soon as it started, I found this to be interesting and very sensible.

Wolf Music:

Neil, As Nov. 30 quickly approaches and National Novel Writing Month comes to a close I realize that a good chunk of my 50,000 words is utter crap. So I was wondering if you [...]

On the topic of Lycos’s misguided attempt to attack spammers with a DoS attack:

[IP] F more on [Technical] Lycos gets into the denial-of-service attac:

From: Mary Shaw
Date: November 29, 2004 11:00:53 AM EST
To: dave at farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] [Technical] Lycos gets into the denial-of-service attack business
Reply-To: Mary Shaw
Aren’t the people who casually download screen savers roughly [...]

iPod - restore and maximize battery life:

If you erase and add files in a normal manner you will get fragmentation. The iPod hard disk will have to work more to read your music and your battery will suffer.

This needs to be tested, I think: since the update process is initiated by the desktop system, it [...]

Maybe I’m Chinese too:

Strange things can happen to you while you blog. You might even change your mind.
Months ago I described my vegetarian desires that I had given up for love. Whenever Ted travelled, I would make meatless dishes and imagine what life could be like without butcher bills. I wasn’t that excited about my [...]

I had a conversation today with someone on the state of popular music, specifically the new U2 album, just released today. The person I was talking with insisted U2 have sold out, reaching out to the lowest common denominator to sell more copies and make more money. If they really want to squeeze out the [...]

Latest Business News and Financial Information | Reuters.com:

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster raised his 12-month price target to $100 from $52, citing a survey conducted by his firm showing that Apple’s popular iPod digital music players are helping boost sales of its signature Macintosh computers.
Another analyst, Robert Cihra, of Fulcrum Global Partners, also boosted his [...]

The Dare - Making the 24-Hr Comic:

To create a complete 24 page comic book in 24 continuous hours.
That means everything: Story, finished art, lettering, colors (if you want ‘em), paste-up, everything! Once pen hits paper, the clock starts ticking. 24 hours later, the pen lifts off the paper, never to descend again. Even proofreading has [...]