Archive for November 20th, 2008

robert johnson

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Dear Amazon.com:
After buying the collected works of Robert Johnson, blues guitarist from the 1930s, the man who was reputed to have sold his soul to the devil to become the greatest blues guitarist ever, I really don’t think I want albums by Robert Johnson the 70s power pop musician.  I know they have the same [...]

at home in the (technical) universe

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Some recent (somewhat) technical notes:

A while back, I swapped the dead harddrive from my ipod with a compact flash card.  Unfortunately, at the time, the biggest (affordable) compact flash was 16 GB, so I lost about half the capacity from my ipod.  Not a huge problem, but it became more of one as I added [...]