As a birthday present for my sister this year I got tickets for her and I to go see the Barenaked Ladies play at the Xcel Center in St Paul last night. The show was pretty good, though I have to admit that I was a bit more excited about (and happy at the performance [...]

The New York Times is going to have variant covers for an upcoming issue. At least they aren’t foil. Yet. No tag for this post.

After spending I have no idea how many millions of dollars to try and move cars and traffic out of downtown Minneapolis our illustrious, and sadly slightly flaky, Mayor has now decided that maybe we need more traffic downtown but with fewer buses. I’ve got a better idea: How about we fully implement the original [...]

It turns out that the Zune software does have Dynamic Playlists, they’re just hidden very well. Still not enough to get it back on my system and certainly not enough to use it regularly. No tag for this post.

While I was uninstalling the Zune software from my system a thought occurred to me: I did not remember ever seeing an option of where to install the software during installation. Since the uninstallation was nice and painless I decided to restart the installation to verify my memory just to be sure and I could [...]

Further issues with the Zune software: No dynamic play lists. While I occasionally will listen to a particular album or artist, my primary method of listening to music is a modified shuffle of the entire library, slightly culled by dropping any tracks that I’ve played in the last 1-3 weeks (My full library at home [...]

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I decided to give the new Zune software package a try today just to see what it’s like. Why try the software when I don’t have the Zune hardware? iTunes is pretty good software and I’ve never owned an iPod. However I’ve already run into the first item that makes me wonder about the whole [...]

The IRV Ballot Initiative in Minneapolis passed! Oh happy day! No tag for this post.

While I’m certainly not entirely happy with the results of the elections yesterday, the election of a socialist to the US Senate in Vermont makes my little socialist heart very happy. Tags: social