saulrosenbaum.com / 2008 / December

I’ve decided I’m going to post a panoramic of my studio every December 31st starting (obviously) this year, Strangely when stressed I have a tendency to change my surroundings.. so it should be interesting to see what the changes are from year to year.

I have a LOT of media - I listen to music 19 hours a day, and I’m a frequent purchaser on the Apple iTunes Store - I’ve never had an issue with Apple’s DRM, I understand the need for it, it’s never caused me any pain - until today.

I’ve been reorganizing my iTunes libraries onto a large (locally attached) external drive, that gets sync’d to my studio server - works flawlessly, except that this morning I realized that even though both of my machines are authorized to play DRM’d content, neither of them could, kind of a scary thought since I have 1000’s of dollars worth of DRM’d music.

On a hunch I relaunched itunes (with the option key down) and reverted back to my original iTunes library (local to my internal drive) and tried playing the same album - played fine, following the same hunch, I relaunched iTunes went back to the new library and used iTunes to import the DRM’d music from the old library to the new library - it plays, cursory examination of the files shows they’re the same, same size, creation dates, modified dates - yet the manually copied files don’t play.

I’ll add it to the list of things I hate about iTunes (coming to this blog very soon)

Tagged: apple, drm, itunes

I spend some time on twitter, my wife spends time on twitter, even my cat spends time on twitter. It’s highly entertaining, and a nice diversion a few times a day - but it’s impossible to catch a buzz with friends while tweeting from your desk - until now, I give you..

Twitter the drinking game.

Like all good games the rules are simple.
Get yourself a pitcher/carafe/jug/teapot/sixpack/bottle of your favorite beverage.

RULES:

Prepare to take ONE sip/shot anytime ANYONE TWEETS:

• A link to facebook, or mentions a facebook group
• A picture from TwitPic
• A reference to public transportation or traffic
• A reply to more than 3 people in a single tweet

And you need to FINISH the contents of your glass/cup when

• Jason Calacanis’s tweet DOESN’T mention Mahalo
• Justine’s tweet mentions food or a uses the acronym OMG
• John Gruber’s tweet ISN’T dripping in sarcasm
• A tweet has the hashtag #drinkup
• Every Twoosh (twitter needs to visually identify the oh-so-special Twoosh)
• Every Fail Whale

Of course these rules are a work in progress - so they may change, please drink responsibly - try not exceed 140 drinks in a day.

Tagged: drinking, twitter