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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 summer and mentioned I had met Stu Feldman while out in IBM in the Extreme Blue program.

Stu created make back in 1979. He recounted to us that he never meant for people to have to use \t in make files.

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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 enticing, slower "You Don't Deserve My Love". Songs like the darker and slower "Everyone You Talk To" show the breadth of the group.

"You Don't Deserve My Love" is my favorite song off the album one that will stay at the top of ...

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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.

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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 Digital Urn".

Starting off with a story by Conor the album doesn't stop. We Are Nowhere and It's Now is the first track with Emmylou she makes the song just that much better, as she does on every song she contributes ...

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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 have listened to. It still has the signature Conor Oberst vocals and lyrics, ruminating on many different subjects just not to your regular Bright Eyes backing.

The pouding sounds of Time Code flow into Gold Mine Gutted. Arc of Time's captivating beat and ...

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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 some strange IE code that makes it so the page doesn't load.

I then tried to spoof the Netscape 7.x settings on Win32. I couldn't get this to work, so I went and downloaded their javascript files. Looking in ...

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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 5 takes a little of the steam off Tuesday and Thursday.

Germany will be awesome once I make it out there. Hopefully plans are laid down in the next week.

Finding an apartment is not fun for anyone involved. Need to find some place ...

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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.

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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 in response to Wired's Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson.

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A while back I found out about bloglines.com. It is a web based RSS/Atom feed aggregator. Besides aggregating the many feeds that I have it also offers suggestions about different feeds that I might be interested in based on what feeds I have subscribed to.

Check out my public feed:
http://www.bloglines.com/public/spi

Since it is web based it is available anywhere I have access to a web browser and it keeps track of new posts across the different accesses. I have found it to be extremely useful and makes it so I don't ...

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