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Today, I encountered an interesting problem when syncing my music library between two different computers. Whenever I buy a CD (and yes, I still buy CDs on occasion — albeit ones that are used or heavily discounted), I rip it into FLAC . But sometimes, I'll have ripped an MP3 version of the same album on a different...

I recently upgraded nearly all of my 32-bit Linux installations to the latest 64-bit Xubuntu "Lucid Lynx" release, and was chagrined to find that I couldn't install the Amazon MP3 downloader. For whatever reason, they've decided to only support a 32-bit installation. Fortunately, 64-bit users can still install and use 32-b...

Roughly three weeks ago – on Wednesday, May 12 th – Ivo was born. Jessica gave birth in a tub in the living room of our house, and it was amazing. Our first labor (a natural birth in a hospital setting), while rewarding, was strenuous and exhausting. We had to consciously remind ourselves of the reasons we chos...

Preamble I hesitate to publish these instructions because h.264 is patent-encumbered and dangerous , and I don't want to contribute to its proliferation. But the steps here are general enough to be useful in many other situations, and interesting enough to merit discussion. The Goal I was given an iPad. We own several DVDs...

Three months ago, I broke my right hand while biking to work. I made a questionable decision involving slippery metal grating on the University Bridge , and found myself doing a not-so-graceful, 20 MPH handstand in the way of traffic. I was incredibly fortunate to have only sustained a broken hand. My arm was in a cast for...

Fitter, happier, more pastries. Thanks to my latest aquatic shenanigans , I spent a week playing with a Nexus One. Here are my impressions. If I make any comparisons that lack context, assume they are drawn in relation to the iPhone. Product quality Hardware Negative: Only 4.5GB of space by default (512MB flash + 4GB SD) G...