Mick Hucknall, Simply Annoying

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Be A Garage Mick Jagger

Be A Garage Mick Jagger 09/17/2004 12:12 PM
If you know how to use a mouse -- and even three-years-olds can -- then you can compose a song in GarageBand in less than 30 minutes. By George Emerson, Globe And Mail (via MyAppleMenu)

Mick Calder: Science needed down on the
farm

Mick Calder: Science needed down on the
farm 12/14/2003 07:34 PM
So in the interests of promoting understanding and keeping up with the knowledge economy, I looked it up using Google - as you do. ...

Cambridge SoundWorks Mick Fleetwood
Signature Model Twelve Speakers

Cambridge SoundWorks Mick Fleetwood
Signature Model Twelve Speakers 08/18/2004 08:38 AM

When I go into the local middle- and high-schools each week for my "Gizmodo: Talkin' Teen" heart-to-heart rap session, the number one inquiry I get from the kids during our Q&A is, "Yo, when is Mick Fleetwood going to endorse a set of Cambridge SoundWorks portable speakers?" And I chuckle a little then, and walk over and my put my hand on their shoulder, and try to explain to these mixed up young persons that despite their enduring affection for Fleetwood Mac's seminal 1977 release Rumors, the pressures of Big Media conglomerates have persisted to keep Mick out of the speaker game. Then we all smoke a big doob because I'm down.

But next week, when some young gangbanger inevitably asks me that very same question, I'm going to look them right in the eyes and whisper into the mic, "Today, my young peer. Today."

Cambridge SoundWorks has not mentioned if it is appropriate to call the $400 Mick Fleetwood Signature Model Twelves' included amplifier the "Stevie Mixer," probably because that's sort of lame.

Read - Mick Fleetwood-endorsed mobile speaker system [GadgetryBlog]

That's it, I'm done. Simply can't top
this.

That's it, I'm done. Simply can't top
this. 12/12/2003 05:26 PM
Australian news media as well as the AFP have reported that Secretary of State Colin Powell has unofficially appointed James Brown US Secretary of Soul and Foreign Minister of Funk.

Simply GNUstep

Simply GNUstep 01/04/2004 05:54 PM
GNUMail & Pantomime updated

Simply Marvelous

Simply Marvelous 05/04/2004 04:49 PM
The future is very bright for Marvel Enterprises.

Sometimes getting your car back is
simply not enough.

Sometimes getting your car back is
simply not enough. 07/09/2004 10:09 AM
Friday Fun! It's good to see a local advertiser with the guts to go for a "funny" ad campaign. I imagine these get a good response. If I lived in Oregon, this place would get my business (well, if they sold Hondas). Viva la Trunk Monkey!

Qt Simply Image Corrector 0.3.0

Qt Simply Image Corrector 0.3.0 01/04/2004 01:15 PM
A corrector for distorted images.

Simply Horsing Around on the Web or
Something Truly Unique

Simply Horsing Around on the Web or
Something Truly Unique 12/30/2004 05:06 AM
Horse Racing, that most ancient of sports is set to merge with the most up to date Internet technology to bring a very different experience in online horse racing to many millions of homes across the globe early in 2005. This will offer racing enthusiasts an exciting and new sporting event, but will also offer something truly unique in terms of corporate sponsorship. [PRWEB Dec 30, 2004]

Namesco buys Simply.com

Namesco buys Simply.com 09/22/2004 06:12 AM
Web host mergers

Wi-Fi hotspots simply too expensive

Wi-Fi hotspots simply too expensive 06/02/2004 07:18 AM
No return on investment, German study shows

Since this price is the keyword, one
could simply just go wi

Since this price is the keyword, one
could simply just go wi 08/08/2004 05:28 PM
TechTree Aug 8 2004 8:43PM GMT

Symantec's Simply Terrific

Symantec's Simply Terrific 07/22/2004 11:10 AM
The Internet security company continues to post impressive numbers.

Secrets: Simply dashing

Secrets: Simply dashing 03/30/2005 05:43 PM
The Mac mini isn't just for desktops any more.

Are PDAs Simply Finished?

Are PDAs Simply Finished? 06/13/2004 10:40 AM

Audience estimates simply won't do

Audience estimates simply won't do 05/17/2004 02:55 PM
newmediazero May 17 2004 6:49PM GMT

FAQ | Restore glitch? Simply disable

FAQ | Restore glitch? Simply disable 01/22/2004 04:21 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 22 2004 8:19AM GMT

DotGeek: Mcrypting Your Data Simply

DotGeek: Mcrypting Your Data Simply 02/19/2004 10:09 AM
Some programmers out there look to PHP to provide them with all of the web application features that they might need, including a way to encrypt sensitive data like passwords or bank account numbers. One way has always been to md5 it and just use that data generated, but there's another two-way encrpytion that DotGeek. org is covering today.

To some in the bl0gosphere, it simply
had to be the government's fault

To some in the bl0gosphere, it simply
had to be the government's fault 01/04/2005 01:23 PM
Myths Run Wild in Blog Tsunami Debate .. What an abominable piece of drek .. article on tsunami blogs

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Simply Safe Backup 2004 v1.6

Simply Safe Backup 2004 v1.6 12/06/2003 12:02 PM
Simply Safe Backup give you the ability to burn backups to CD & DVD & FTP Server on the fly. It also offers data encryption, Split Data Files, Locate-Compare-Verify tool, Find-File feature, Smart Backup (Determines Files Necessary to Back Up). [Freeware $20.00 Days 3.63 MB]

PlayStation Portable is simply
overpowering

PlayStation Portable is simply
overpowering 03/17/2005 02:55 AM
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How Annoying is This?

How Annoying is This? 01/21/2003 10:56 AM
How Annoying is This? or Always, Always Blame the Data ! I was just debugging code as part of Mark's new online magazine Tekka. I wrote the login code and the way we wanted it to function was that if you tried to view something you didn't have access to then it would display a preview of the content (we originally were going to have it automatically create the previews based on the source text but we opted to create them manually to make sure that everything looked as good as possible; it made sense since the preview is essentially "marketing" for the article itself). What started happening over the weekend was that the previews worked fine for content I created. Of course as soon as the real content and previews flowed into the "system" (and I use the term "system" loosely; very loosely) then we started to see errors. In specific we saw that the previews were getting arbitrarily clipped. Now the previews I had made were quite short (probably between 1K and 4K of data) and the real ones were much longer. Of course the very first thing I thought of was some kind of byte size limitation. I knew that I was passing a much larger chunk of content into my templating class and perhaps that was it. So I merrily plunged into Google looking for information on string size limits in PHP. Sigh. Since Google seems to treat the extension of a url as a word (at times; it is bizarre) within the url's content it means that searching for PHP content can be difficult at times. I did find a most helpful bit of content on string size limits in BEALogic application servers though. Nothing to do with PHP of course but helpful to someone I guess. So then I delved into the source code for the templating library, FastTemplate. Nothing. Then I stopped reacting and started thinking. Yes that is the hardest part of debugging and one that all of us just plain hate to do. What I did was setup a simpler test case, pulling JUST the display code out of the logic and then taking my own data and making it larger. No problem. Worked fine. ###?*($#*# (fill it in). Hrm... Then I started thinking about the content I was getting from Mark and what I knew about it. Well I know Mark is an all Mac shop so I started to wonder about lower order ASCII characters being hidden in the content. You know -- what about ASCII 17? Or ASCII 3? So I scp'd the content back to my own server Windows box and used a gui editor. Sure enough there turned out to be two ASCII 0s embedded in the content EXACTLY where the content was being truncated. Mark and I hashed it out and I'm still not sure where these came from but it really doesn't matter. He made sure to get rid of them and so did I. What was happening was that the ASCII 0s were acting to truncate the string of preview content as it was passed to the display method. I ended up adding this to the routine before passing the content off for display: $preview = str_replace("\0","",$preview); Moral of the Story? Think before debugging. Simply your test case as much as possible. Check the data; even invisible things can screw you up.

Are You Annoying?

Are You Annoying? 07/24/2004 01:14 PM

Atkins diet works simply by 'filling you
up'

Atkins diet works simply by 'filling you
up' 01/22/2004 03:31 PM
"[The study] found that although Atkins dieters were allowed to eat as much as they liked, they ate as few calories as those on the low-calorie diets and significantly fewer than they would eat normally. The findings, the programme suggests, solve the mystery of how the Atkins diet works. 'It might have nothing to do with calories being lost and apparently nothing to do with burning more calories. Neither does it seem to be due to gorging on fats,' it says. Instead, 'protein makes you feel full.'"

Colourfull Creations releases Simply
Maze Crazy for Mac OS X

Colourfull Creations releases Simply
Maze Crazy for Mac OS X 11/19/2003 09:23 PM
November 14, 2003; New Baltimore, MI. Colourfull Creations releases Simply Maze Crazy for Mac OS X.

PlayStation Portable simply overpowers
handheld competition

PlayStation Portable simply overpowers
handheld competition 03/22/2005 03:14 PM
Staronline.com - Mon Mar 21, 09:47 am GMT

Jason Kottke fund drive simply amazing!

Jason Kottke fund drive simply amazing! 04/11/2005 05:49 AM

I am not really sure what the attraction is over at Jason Kottke weblog but he obviously has a very large probably one of the largest weblog followings on the net and he has published the results of his annual fund-drive.

Incidentally he made enough to blog for a year and nearly matched his old salary. This to me is fascinating in that people would send that much money to one weblogger. I guess I better put his site on a daily read and see what he has to say.

Those of you that have been reading for a while know I am looking to write this weblog and podcast fulltime within about 26 months. This is a significant goal time will tell but being I have a wife, four kids a dog and everything that goes with that my replacement income is probably significantly more than what Jason had to raise but again I could be wrong.

The way I figure it at this point it would take every last person reading this weblog and listening to the podcast to have to contribute about $50.00 each and I am sure their are not that many people that can afford that. But hey I have 26 months or so to build up the readership so that we can cut that number down to a reasonable amount. [Jason Kottke]

Free to be annoying

Free to be annoying 06/12/2004 12:00 AM
USA Today Jun 12 2004 3:06AM GMT

A Break From Annoying Ads?

A Break From Annoying Ads? 05/25/2004 05:12 AM
A high demand for online advertising space coupled with low supply is giving Web publishers the upper hand. It could mean a break from outlandish ads that block the article you're trying to read. By Amit Asaravala.

Annoying the sharks

Annoying the sharks 07/03/2004 11:43 AM
Where I'm staying, the kids have had the Discovery Channel all morning. It's shark show after shark show. The underwater scientists wrestle them, tag them, measure them, and check their teeth for unsightly plaque. Fine, but I plan on swimming in the ocean this summer, so could we please stop annoying the sharks for a while? Thank you....

Over 3,400 Annoying Gimmicks

Over 3,400 Annoying Gimmicks 03/25/2005 04:09 PM
Consolidated B-24 Liberator nose art archive. Signs of the zodiac, dirty jokes, self-fulfilling prophecies, and stumpers. (Some questionable content [NSFW-ish] and site design)

When Tech Gets Really Annoying

When Tech Gets Really Annoying 06/24/2005 07:22 PM

It's almost lunch time, and I'm driving down the street, not too fast and not too slow. My belly has been reminding me for a while that it's been several hours since I finished my bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats, and just then a Burger King joint comes into view. I'm thinking, "Hmmm. I wonder what their special is today." Apparently reading my mind, the super spiffy gee-whiz Daktronic s Message Center animated sign flashes "SPECIAL" several times in a very special animated sequence that must've taken hours to program. Then the display changes to read

TENDERCRISP CHICKEN

in really big letters, and pauses for a few seconds. As I get closer and closer to the restaurant's driveway, I'm thinking to myself, "That would taste really good about now," but the cheapskate in me is also asking, "How much does it cost?" By this time I'm less than a block away. Next comes

SANDWICH COMBO

(or something like that) in really big letters. Great. So you've got a SPECIAL on a TENDERCRISP CHICKEN SANDWICH COMBO and it takes you four blocks to tell me that? By the time it's too late for me to turn, in the sign still hasn't flashed the SPECIAL's price, so I drive right on by, looking for another place to buy lunch. Their advertising efforts just lost them a sale.

I realize that there are few rocket scientists running Burger King restaurants, but does it take a marketing genius to know that there is a limited amount of time for them to convey a message to passing motorists? With the old-fashioned signage, a Burger King would put up "TNDRCRISP COMBO $3.95" or something like that, which can be read in a glance and gets the message across in a fraction of a second. The galling thing is that with the electronic signage they could do the same thing, but they choose to jazz it up, and end up failing to get their message across.

Come to think of it, these electronic marquees suffer from some of the same maladies that make PowerPoint presentations so painful. Deane has written several posts about some of the issues with PowerPoint; if only the people setting these signs up would bone up on Po werPoint etiquette they'd have better success with their streetside advertising. Or at least it wouldn't suck quite so badly.

There should be a severe penalties for people who set up messages on electronic marquee boards that span more than two pages.

Annoying Mousequito

Annoying Mousequito 08/22/2004 10:40 PM
ugh, get away

Americans are a serious people, war is a
serious business, and what John Kerry is
offering is simply not serious

Americans are a serious people, war is a
serious business, and what John Kerry is
offering is simply not serious 04/23/2004 09:53 PM
Charles Krauthammer shreds

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STOPzilla - End Annoying Pop-Ups Forever

STOPzilla - End Annoying Pop-Ups Forever 07/01/2004 10:35 AM
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Such a small thing, and yet so very
annoying

Such a small thing, and yet so very
annoying 03/14/2005 05:54 PM
Nav-commenters.gif is dead DEAD! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! DEAD I TELL YOU! Yay! As an aside, and reading John's piece, it suddenly pops into my head that the day a major hole is found in MT, it will be the presence of nav-commenters.gif...

Truth- More Annoying Than Fiction!

Truth- More Annoying Than Fiction! 08/30/2004 01:35 PM

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Well, having run down the rest of the page referenced in my revised “Rumor?” post, it appears that those little Microsoftians have been busy. Unfortunately, they’ve been busy figuring out ways to break Windows XP under the guise of ‘improving’ security. As you go down the page you may start to wonder why Windows XP works at all after installing the SP-2 patch. Something that I think will catch Messenger users by surprise, since I…

Aren't Cellphones Annoying? And What's
Up With Those PDAs?

Aren't Cellphones Annoying? And What's
Up With Those PDAs? 08/19/2004 07:35 AM

There was a time where I thought my career was going to be in that sparkling sugarplum factory known as "computers," but reading columns like this one by Robert J. Samuelson has convinced me that my career in "journalism" is much more suited to my desire to string lots of curmudgeonly words together and get paid for it. This week's insightful column? "A Cell Phone? Never for Me." You fight that power, Samuelson. (I especially like the part where he notes that he has also "resisted ATM cards, laptops, and digital cameras." This is the part where Zombie Thoreau puts down his cell phone and slaps the wax out of him.)

So that's journalism, I guess. I can't wait until I'm old and can write columns for Newsweek like, "What's Up With Mustard?" and "Holo Porn? It's 2D for Me."

Read - A Cell Phone? Never for Me. [Newsweek]

the 20 most annoying conservatives of
the year

the 20 most annoying conservatives of
the year 12/06/2003 05:05 AM

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