One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Friday, 17 September 2004

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Upstreaming Grief
At last. For months I've had a category which wouldn't upstream. It was going to an ftp site.

The error message in the Events Log was

Can't read stream because TCP/IP error code -3259 - Connection timed out

I think that the problem may have been that I'd put a trailing slash in the URL. This is the 'correct' thing to do as far as I understand it except in the case of Radio UserLand's upstream files. Specifically one of the items in the upstream file is and it should be written as

http://www.foobar.net/foobar

and not

http://www.foobar.net/foobar/

Argh. Glad that headache's over.

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iTunes Encoding Strategies

If disk space isn’t a major concern for you, and if you have enough patience, you can use iTunes’ conversion tools to get the best of both worlds: maintaining a master music library in Apple Lossless format, and then creating lossy versions of tracks for your iPod. [MacCentral]

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Today another suicide bomber just exploded himself in Baghdad killing at least a dozen people. The country is continuing the slide into chaos and violence. President Bush says we're on the the right track. Freedom is on the march.

Words and excuses meet incompetence, chaos and death. That's what this election is about.

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Rafe Colburn : "The grim realities of...

Rafe Colburn: "The grim realities of war really sink in when your RSS reader lets you know that a few more Americans have lost their lives several times a day." [Scripting News]

OK. What about the deaths of the 13-15,000 Iraqi citizens, the ones Bush is bringing 'democracy'? Is that not part of the grim reality?

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This entertaining show at the International Center of Photography reminds us of many memorable photographs that Life magazine published over the years. [New York Times: Arts]

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To celebrate the centenary of the composer's death, the classical music critics of The New York Times have provided recommendations of favorite Dvorak CD's. [New York Times: Arts]

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Yesterday Dave and I did our first Trade Secrets show. I've been teasing a new show for about a week. Lots of technical glitches before we finally got everything to work and were able to record via VoIP in Belgium and Seattle :)

With 9 hours time difference, I went to bed after the show and awoke to find a site and rss feed with enclosures for iPodder! Enjoy the first episode.

[Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

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Swimming with the Razorfishes: Now that Paolo has stolen this gif from Dave, I have to link to it. I'm absolutely mesmerized by this animation.

Got to be the coolest animated gif I've seen!

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I think that weblogs are only the first step in the direction of private/public space management applications.

Before weblogs we all had a public space on the internet: our mailbox. Everybody could leave us a message in this space and we could retreive it when we wanted.

In a way weblogs represent the contrary: our weblog is a space where we can write and let other people retreive our content. This space can be open to everybody or only to a group of people, it's a tool help us connecting with the rest of the world.

Weblogs are only the first widespread application that use this public space, many others will follow.
[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

Paolo is thinking clearly about these things.

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This is a simple hint for accessing the iChat emoticons menu from the keyboard while iChatting. While typing a message, hit the Tab key until the grey smiley face in the text input area has a blue halo around it. Hit the Spa... [macosxhints]

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Microsoft's new internet streaming service attempts to replicate terrestrial stations, without all the annoying chatter -- and without permission. By Randy Dotinga. [Wired News]
'Soon, the world's largest software company, a staunch defender of its own copyrights, may have to answer it in court. Earlier this month, Microsoft began charging users to listen to online clones of 978 U.S. and Canadian radio stations with '"fewer ads, no DJ chatter and less repetition." And no, Bill Gates didn't ask the stations for permission to copy their playlists. [snip] The broadcasting industry, surprised by the debut of Microsoft's Radio Plus service, hasn't reached full freak-out mode yet.'

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The situation in Iraq continues to be a dominant issue in the U.S. presidential election campaign. FULL STORY [CBC News]

I'm surprised by the pull quote here. I can't figure out why Iraq is not getting a lot more attention.

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This isn't the first time there has been a Canadian angle to American political documentaries. Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine was produced by Canadians. Both Moore and Butler are enthusiastic about their attachment to Canada.

A film about Kerry's vietnam experience premiers at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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A mock textbook from the troublemakers at "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" is a side-splitting guide to our political life; The Onion's new book can't compete. [New York Times: Arts]

I was just wandering around the dial trying to find this show. I can never remember when it's on, or which channel I should tune in to. I watch very little tv but this is one show I'd like to see.

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As it winds on, this year's Toronto Film Festival feels both utterly chaotic and at the same time governed by some strange, complex principle of symmetry. [New York Times: Arts]

Lots of good karma coming from reviews of the TIFF this year.

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Four of the so-called Big Five orchestras coincidentally have multiyear contracts expiring now, precisely at a moment of serious economic hardship. [New York Times: Arts]

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Hurricane Ivan is now just tropical storm Ivan, having beat itself into exhaustion as it ripped across the U.S. Gulf Coast on Thursday. FULL STORY [CBC News]

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Canadian Press - MONTREAL (CP) - A provincewide sweep of marijuana fields has netted police more than 60,000 pot plants and 71 arrests. [Yahoo! News - World]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. intelligence report prepared for President Bush in July offered a gloomy outlook for Iraq through the end of 2005, with the worst scenario being a deterioration into civil war, government officials said on Thursday. [Reuters: World]

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Canadian Press - UNITED NATIONS (AP) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for urgent action Thursday to stop attacks on civilians in western Sudan and announced he is sending UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour of Canada and a special adviser on genocide, Juan Mendes, to Sudan this weekend to see what can be done to provide better protection for civilians in the Darfur region. [Yahoo! News - World]

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Film: What makes the Toronto film festival different from other film festivals? Real people in the audience. B Ruby Rich reports. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Tim de Lisle lists 70 things you may not know about Leonard Cohen. [Guardian Unlimited]

70! Wow. 'I ache in the places that I used to play'.