avoid it! avoid it like the plague! do NOT upgrade your mac or pc to iTunes 7. stay with iTunes 6. if you still don’t like itunes 6, at least it works and won’t delete your music files. itunes 7 (7.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, etc.) is absolutely wretched. on my mac, it’s as slow as molasses, crashes and/or freezes, and if you hook an ipod or ishuffle up to it, set aside a lot of time if you want to edit your playlist - if it will connect at all. this has been happening since late september with my automatic update to 7.0 - and with all subsequent upgrades and ‘bug fixes’ up to 7.0.2, these problems remain. itunes 7 is just incredibly buggy and it’s a shame apple is using it’s customer base as beta testers. here’s a direct link to an old version of 6.0.5 for mac online (link is 19.8 megs). and here are some tips on uninstalling itunes 7 here and here.
UPDATE: followed the great instructions on the macfixitforums and the rollback to iTunes 6.0.5 worked great!
Monthly Archive for November, 2006
the greenfestival is in san francsico this weekend. november 10 - 12 at the concourse exhibition center on 8th st & brannan. i’ll be there today checking everything out. there’ll be workshops and talks on organic foods & farming, eco-building & building green, sustainability, and a whole lot more. plus, working assests has a discounted admission ticket available online. you should go!
it’s friday and i hope you have time to kill at work. for some really cute, simple, and highly enjoyable flash game fun, please visit orisinal, created by artist ferry halim. my friend jason tipped me off to this site a long while back. there’s a lot of really amazing and pleasing flash games to enjoy. so if you need to be on the internet a little longer today, please make sure to do so playing cranky crabs, chicken wings, bugs, metal armor, or any of the other rad choices.
if you’re always or even just periodically on the hunt for great new fonts, please go and visit dafont.com. lots and lots of free fonts to download. all with previews and all in both mac & pc format. great resource - thanks dafont!
i never new i had a deprived childhood until now: my mom never made me squirrel melts! why?! from a show in canada called ‘huntress’ comes an odd video of a mom & son team killing machine with a taste for squirrel blood. once the ferocius squirrel is shot and brought home, mom then trades in her hunting gear for an apron & a cosby sweater and cooks up some squirrel melts! squirrel melts .. you must try them. warning - you shouldn’t watch this clip if seeing a squirrel get shot and then cooked bothers you.
a quick word about my webhost for several years now, lunarpages. they just raised their storage and hosting plans to some amazing levels. for $6.95 per month, you get 35 gigabytes of storage, 800 gigabytes of bandwidth, free domain name for life, free domain name transfer, free wordpress blog (just click a button to install and/or upgrade), unlimited mysql databases, unlimited postgre sql databases, fantastico script library (!!), cPanel website administration, 30 day money back guarantee, and a lot more. anyway, if you looking for a webhost, i highly recommend lunarpages.
the ever funny & always powerful musical comedy genius duo known as tenacious d will be playing a concert in san francisco this month. their last show in SF was in 2002 at slims i believe. the D is on tour for their new movie tenacious d: the pick of destiny. (check out the trailer - it’s got sasquatch in it!). tickets for the SF show are still on sale too! the show is monday november 20th at the bill graham civic auditorium. and tickets are not cheap - $50+ after taxes & fees (hence the not sold out part). go & i’ll see you there! meanwhile, enjoy the D below.
download:
tenacious-d-sampler.zip (15.6 megabytes)
ye mighty track listing:
Tenacious D - Double Team
Tenacious D - Sasquatch
Tenacious D - Friendship Test
Tenacious D - Friendship
this next clip doesn’t have to make sense. it just has to be … be weird, be silly, be possibly the gayest thing i’ve ever seen. yes, all of those things. combine care free + tassles + spandex + headband + mullet + moves and you’ve got dirty cowboy! awesome. it just may warm your heart to an intensity the likes of which you’ve never experienced. and you’ll find yourself asking ‘why?’ yet watching it again and again and again and again …
giantmonster wishes happy birthday on this day to another giantmonster, mr. lou ferrigno, aka mr universe/olympia/america bodybuilder, a.k.a. that neighbor guy named lou ferrigno on the king of queens, a.k.a. personal trainer & motivational speaker, a.k.a. deputy cletus senior from reno 911, a.k.a. real-life los angeles county reserve deputy sherriff lou ferrigno, & a.k.a. the incredible hulk! happy 55th lou (thanks adrienne!)!
tomorrow, thursday, november 9th, the great and amazing organization challenge day will be featured on the oprah winfrey show. this is big, really big, and i’m super excited for yvonne, rich, and everyone in the challenge day extended family. the oprah show is titled ‘oprah’s high school challenge‘ and you can read about the show taping on the challenge day website. and read more about the ‘be the change‘ movement on the challenge day website too. also, before they are fully booked for years on end, i highly highly recommend taking their next step workshop. so excited! what’s up vinny!?!!! doo it!
did somebody say that the democrats took the senate too? that would give this congress - house and senate - a complete democrat majority. wow - i just may take off work tomorrow.
on the heels of the stem cell legislation passing in missouri, a study published in the journal nature reports that stem cell transplants in blind mice have helped to restore their sight. in the test, the scientists treated mice which had eye damage similar to that seen in many human eye diseases. a stem cell is a cell which can be set or programmed to grow into any type of cell. in this case, retinal stem cells were grown and transplanted onto the eyes of the mice. the eyesight of the mice gradually returned as their pupils contracted when exposed to light. this is a great breakthrough as people (mice too, it seems) who have already gone blind may someday be able to regain and restore their damaged rod and cone photoreceptors and see again.
the widely scattered yet collectively unified minds of giantmonster raise a mighty full glass and toast the sad sack of shit in the white house and all his pals on this very excellent election day afterglow. it’s okay to start drinking again george. thanks to everyone who came out and voted.
rumsfeld resigns! (fucking duh! - fucking double duh!)
house of congress with democrat majority!
speaker of the house, nancy pelosi!
south dakota rejects abortion ban!
bye bye santorum!
stem cell bill passes in missouri!
jerry mcnerny wins in california!
rather discouraging report on the BBC website titled ‘Only 50 Years Left’ for sea fish, which talks of a report on the declining fish stocks in the earth’s oceans. the report is for the journal Science and is the work of an international team of researchers and scientists. The great decline in fish stocks is largely due to the broader loss of marine biodiversity. quoting steve palumbi from stanford university (one of the scientists on the project):
“Unless we fundamentally change the way we manage all the ocean species together, as working ecosystems, then this century is the last century of wild seafood.”
in the report, experiments performed in small, relatively contained ecosystems show that reductions in fish and marine life diversity tend to bring reductions in the size and robustness of local fish stocks. This implies that loss of biodiversity is driving the declines in fish stocks seen in the large-scale studies. But data gathered from areas where fishing has been either banned or heavily restricted was promising, showing that protection of fishing areas though ‘no fish zones’ and marine sanctuaries brings back biodiversity and helps to restore fish populations.
makeover time! re-style the timeless style of mr. t using the mr. t virtual playset from the creative minds at ironic sans. give him a new hairdo, a construction helmet, maybe some clown glasses too. Is he still tough? you decide (the answer is ‘yes’). my only complaint: there’s waaaay too few options. i will patiently wait for version 2.0 though.