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So tonight I was working on my compilers project. Josh had made a Makefile for the project but it wasn’t working.
Eventually we traced the error back to a ~/ in the file. Make doesn’t like that relative path, once it was changed to the absolute path everything was peachy.
I then remember back to this past [...]

A new release from ADD, Rename is a top class act. The vocals are a familiar style to any synthpop fan but different enough to sound new. The programming and lyrics are top notch. The songs run the gamut from the strong powerful sounds of “Maybe Later I Will Fall” and “Heaven Forever” to the [...]

Along with my previous Bright Eyes posts.
Go listen to six songs off his new albums at MTV.it.
The Village Voice has a very nice piece on the new Bright Eyes albums.

I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning is the second Bright Eyes album that will be released on January 25th. This album is the more “regular” Bright Eyes album. It has an acoustic music, modern country, type feel to it. With gorgeous harmonies by Emmylou Harris it has quite a different feel from “Digital Ash from a [...]

Two new Bright Eyes albums are going to be released on January 25th. I preordered them from Saddle Creek and got them in the mail last Friday. Wow! Both albums are different but spectacular in their own way.
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn has a more electronic feel then the other Bright Eyes albums I [...]

This years version of Intuit TurboTax for the Web doesn’t like Linux at all. They won’t allow any browser in by default. Last year it worked just fine with Galeon on my Debian x86 box.
I went and added the user-agent plugin to my installation of Firefox and tried the IE setting. Unfortunately Intuit TurboTax uses [...]

Music is being released left and right. Bright Eyes has two CDs coming out to rave reviews. ADD is releasing albums from Nevarakka and B! Machine and others like there is no tomorrow.
Last semester of my undergraduate college career started this week. No classes past noon rocks like nothing ever seen before. Though working until [...]

Every week this year www.kiddierecords.com is releasing an old vinyl record kid book as a free mp3 download. It will be cool to listen to some of the old stories. I bet I read a few of these books back when I was young.
Check out this weeks story of Robin Hood.

Cory Doctorow has written an interesting post on boingboing.net about DRM. The post goes into why people who write reviews of products that include DRM should provide a warning that the product contains DRM and its functionality could change at any future point.
Cory wrote a few different posts on DRM in the past few days [...]