Jesse Shanks: More AppleScript and OmniOutliner: OmniOutliner as a Script Analysis and Management Tool. Jesse emailed me Friday to ask if he could use my OmniOutliner2OPML script as the basis of the script in this article. It’s a good thing I was checking email in Bar Harbor! Of course, the server apears to have fallen over and died now, so I’m guessing I’m not getting a lot of traffic from Jesse’s piece, but welcome any new visitors anyway…
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Recording rocks
The E-52s did their most amazing performance today for the mikes. We recorded our repertoire in a tight two hour session—a far cry from sessions I used to do with the Suspicious Cheese Lords that would take two hours to cut one song. Of course the standards were much higher at those sessions. Here we wanted songs for archival, memory, gifts to families, and possibly on line promotional purposes, which made the pressure much less and we had a lot of fun.
Your subscribers thank you, Doc
I note that Doc Searls has fixed his RSS feed, which used to consist of one item containing his entire home page, repeated multiple times during the day as he added new material. I and all your other subscribers thank you for making the change, Doc.
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At home, breathing easier
After a weekend spent in the cold rain of Bar Harbor, I’m back in Boston this morning relaxing and trying to get myself used to my new free time. It’s not really free; I have to do a fair amount of work to get ready for our house-hunting trip in Seattle this coming weekend. But I have no cases to read, no classes to attend, and no papers to write. I feel better already.
Finished….
I finished my last class yesterday, turned in my last assignment. I’m finished with my work for my MBA. No more MIT classes, alas. But on the other hand, no more cases to read. It seems unbelievable that it’s all over except for graduation.
It’s time to refocus on other things. Like, finding a house in the Seattle area.
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Blogging from the reception
The New Product and Venture Development track is having a reception at the Hotel@MIT (the former University Park Hotel in Cambridge) and I’m blogging this from a new iMac at the reception desk. I’m done. 🙂
$50K buys a lot … of free publicity
The MIT $50K competition held its award ceremony last night. Congratulations are in order to my classmate Jeremy Bender and his team, Ancora Pharmaceuticals, who won the grand prize. $50K may not be a lot as far as seed money goes, but it’s a spectacular win for Jeremy and his team. For the record, their team “specializes in the development of complex carbohydrate drugs,” according to the summary posted here.
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New iTunes2Manila v 1.0.2
New version of my iTunes2Manila script out today. This little script, which posts the currently playing track in iTunes to your Manila weblog as a news item, now uses proper typography (curly quotes!) and includes an automatic wrapper for a Google search on the artist name.
Future to do: have a way to update a playlist message automatically, so that “currently playing track” can easily be included in your site template.
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Now playing
Currently playing song: “Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway(again)” by Wilco on Summerteeth.
Now playing
Currently playing song: “Kid A” by Radiohead on Kid A.
2600 Fever! Can Breakin’ 3 be far behind?
Slashdot: Atari Announces Official Portable 2600. “Portable” is an exaggeration; the unit has no screen or batteries. It’s just a joystick that plugs into your TV and plays 10 classic Atari games. It’s also an exaggeration to say that Atari is making the thing; they’ve licensed the rights to JAKKS Pacific, a company that have already made a similar product. Press release here; get it before it succumbs to Yahoo bit-rot.
Personally, I would only consider such a monster if it had the entire Atari library in it (considering that each game was only a maximum of 4K in size, that should be feasible) and if the “joystick” were identical to the old Atari 2600 joystick. Super retro kid stuff…
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It all comes together in the end
This is the second to last day of classes here at Sloan and I’m feeling a bit pressured. I had a semester paper due for Technology Strategy, a final paper for Power and Negotiation, and a final “quiz” (they couldn’t call it an exam by Institute policy because it was given before Finals Week), and I have one last final paper due tomorrow.
And after tomorrow I’m done. Then comes graduation, the move to Seattle, and the new job (along with the resumption of an income). I’ll probably have more thoughts about all of the above shortly; right now I’m still kind of in shock that it’s almost over. I feel like I just blinked while two years went by.
New Sleater-Kinney, finally coming
Rolling Stone: Sleater-Kinney Wrap “One Beat”. Um, finally. I’ve been waiting for the new album since before I started business school.
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Now playing
Currently playing song: “Relative Ways” by And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead on Source Tags and Codes. Sadly, while this song sounds a whole lot like really good Sonic Youth a la A Million Leaves or Washing Machine, the rest of the album sounds a whole lot like… a lot of other bands. I might think better of it after another listen.
I have to get out of here!
A few days and three papers left, and I can’t finish one of them yet because the landscape is moving too quickly. Our technology strategy paper on the video game console industry has been hit hard in the last two days—between Nintendo finally deciding to go on line (News.com) and Sony and Microsoft preparing to go into a price war (New York Times), we can’t update the paper fast enough to keep up. Thank goodness it’s due tomorrow. I can only imagine how the analysts feel.