Archive for January, 2008

RIAA Violates Internet Standards

I dug around until I found that the information they were probably referring to was the Take It Off link which has their own instructions on how to turn off file-sharing in KaZaA .

… I ended up emailing the Security group at the University of Chicago asking them if they could add a redirect for that page and cc’d webmaster@musicunited.org (guessing that might be a valid address), but three days later:

Aggregating Blogs with FeedWordPress

With multiple websites devoted to certain topics, I was looking for something like the croissanga plug-in that would automatically link to posts from other locations in one place.

… I found a great Wordpress plug-in called FeedWordPress that allows you to import other RSS feed items as posts into Wordpress. … However, I found that the DePo Clean theme was displaying “Comments Off” for that setting so I modified the index.php so that it would be more descriptive to visitors (43 is the category ID for my posts imported via FeedWordPress):

New Year, Site Changes

I’ve finally moved my personal blog over to its own domain name - jenniferl.net - and to deal with my multiple blogs for Technology and Travel , I’ve found an add-on called FeedWordPress which will automatically import any entries I’ve written at other sites as posts to this site. I also made some changes so that comments would collect where the original post is published; for any syndicated posts (also categorized as “Syndicated”), a link to the comment page on the original site will show up.

Macbook Lies About Quartz Extreme

I had this error before and convinced Final Cut Express that I really did have Quartz Extreme Support; System Preferences was reporting that I did not have Quartz Extreme support even though the Intel GMA 950 that comes with the Macbook supports it.

Last time, I think I replaced instances of “AGP” to “PCI” in FCE’s info.plist , but this time there was nothing of the sort to replace.

Invasion of Facebook Wall Spam

I got a message on my Facebook wall today. It read (links replaced):

what up Jen?
get the entrie billboard top100 for your cell from [RINGTONE SITE]
i think that Bre is the owner and cool as hell

Slightly confused, I did some digging around and it looks like it was wall spam. Lovely. Another example [...]

MacBook Air: Form vs. Function

I attended MacWorld and held the MacBook Air in my hands and I have to admit that it is one fine piece of engineering. I initially thought that there was a lot more material under the laptop hidden by the curved edges a la their previous version of the iPod Nano, but it really [...]

Handwriting Recognition Progression

It had been awhile since I played with handwriting recognition. I remember the Newton and when I had to learn the special alphabet for the Palm III, my first PDA. I tried out my colleague’s Lenovo X61 tablet PC and was very impressed; I purposely wrote messy words, yet it still recognized my [...]

Caught In The Battle

Originally written on May 24, 2007.
Internet2 (aka I2), a high speed research network with over 200 universities, can also be used for transferring non-research related data like music or movie files.
In April 2005, when I heard that the RIAA was going after people on Internet2, I remember asking my colleague, “How the hell did they [...]