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Sunday, March 25, 2007

Apple managed to keep its nose clean during last year’s exploding battery excitement as many manufacturers were affected. But it may not be so lucky if the most recent problem with exploding hardware becomes an issue.

According to reports on Macintouch and Apple’s discussion boards, an iPod can explode if a user puts too many songs on it.

“When we say a 30 GB iPod holds 7,500 songs,” said senior vice president of the iPod division Tony Fadell, “We mean it holds 7,500 songs.

“Not 7,501. Or 7,550. Or 9,000.”

Suddenly serious, Fadell said “Please, for the love of god, don’t try to put 9,000 songs on a 30 GB iPod. Seriously. Don’t.”

Apple’s advised upper limit is apparently not restrictive. While iTunes will usually prevent a user from copying over the limit, in certain instances it will allow a user to copy more.

There is no way of knowing exactly how many songs you can safely put on your iPod, but a tell-tale sign of impending explosion is a noticeable bulging in the unit.

“If you see it bulging,” Fadell warned, “You’re going to want to put it down and, well, run.

“If you’re around some water, dump it in immediately. Or you can smother it with a pillow. Or a pet. This is no time to be sentimental. Then duck and cover. And if you catch on fire, drop and roll.”

Fadell admitted the company had not really worked out proper procedures for users who have put too many songs on their iPods but figured running and dropping and rolling couldn’t hurt.

Users are advised to gingerly pick up their iPod and gently scroll through to see how many songs they have on it.

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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Ok, today I was reading about people like Saint Augustine and John Calvin etc etc. These people grew up at least around or near Christian influences but instead they felt like living their lives indulging in sex or politics or a number of other things. Until they were about 30 or 35. Then through some circumstances in their lives they were "converted" and became Christians. What I'm thinking is, why couldn't they have just read about those people in the past who had done it all and then decided that they better become a Christian? (I am speaking as a man out of his mind) I mean, we all do it, don't we!? We all think we're right in what we're doing and we don't listen to people who are older and wiser when they tell us we should prolly be doing something else. We all think we know best. We all selfishly, in a sense, proclaim ourselves to be God, don't we??

What foolishness.

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Sunday, February 11, 2007

it's been quite a day. i can't quite say why. not that i wouldn't, i just can't. i am unhappy when you say that i won't or can't or either. just believe me when i say it.

now that that's all cleared up...how are you, my friend?

the other day i watched jet li's "fearless". it was a pretty decent movie. i wouldn't rank it up there with the best, but it wasn't bad. i don't really like those old style chinese fighting movies. too many white robes and stuff. i'm more of a modern type of guy. that's why i liked "the one" a lot better....there was more modern stuff and it just had an aura of coolness to it. there was definitely sweet martial arts moves in fearless though, i'll give it that.

now that i am in danger of sounding like a movie review, i'll move on to other subjects.

first of all, i am in love. ok not. secondly, i just wrote 75 letters. letters!!! not emails. do you know how much work that is to address that many letters? it's insane. not to mention folder that much paper and even the personal note on the bottom of each letter...wow, it's a ton of work. for a good cause though, mind you. i'm going to the dominican republic over spring break.

thirdly, i've had a lot of work to do the last couple of days, and i still have more work looming in front of me, but all is not lost. i have had time to enjoy playing settlers of catan, halo and watching ridiculously odd movies with even odder people from gerig.

fourthly, there is still snow on the ground but it's getting warmer outside. it's up to 23 degrees for crying out loud and it's predicted to get up to the 30s later this week. oh yeah, but then it gets colder again. alas.

well, that was my 4 point screamin' sermon.

cheerio love

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Monday, November 27, 2006

It would be a lot easier to enjoy your life if there weren't so many things trying to kill you every day.

The problems start even before you're fully awake. There's the fall out of bed that kills 600 Americans each year. There's the early-morning heart attack, which is 40 percent more common than those that strike later in the day.

There's the fatal plunge down the stairs, the bite of sausage that gets lodged in your throat, the tumble on the slippery sidewalk as you leave the house, the high-speed automotive pinball game that is your daily commute.

Shadowed by peril as we are, you would think we'd get pretty good at distinguishing the risks likeliest to do us in from the ones that are statistical long shots. But you would be wrong.

We agonize over avian flu, which to date has killed precisely no one in the United States, but have to be cajoled into getting vaccinated for the common flu, which contributes to the deaths of 36,000 Americans each year.

We wring our hands over the mad cow pathogen that might be (but almost certainly isn't) in our hamburger and worry far less about the cholesterol that contributes to the heart disease that kills 700,000 of us annually.

We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ignoring probabilities, building barricades against perceived dangers while leaving ourselves exposed to real ones.

Shoppers still look askance at a bag of spinach for fear of E. coli bacteria while filling their carts with fat-sodden French fries and salt-crusted nachos. We put filters on faucets, install air ionizers in our homes and lather ourselves with antibacterial soap.

"We used to measure contaminants down to the parts per million," says Dan McGinn, a former Capitol Hill staff member and now a private risk consultant. "Now it's parts per billion."

At the same time, 20 percent of all adults still smoke; nearly 20 percent of drivers and more than 30 percent of backseat passengers don't use seat belts; two-thirds of us are overweight or obese.

We dash across the street against the light and build our homes in hurricane-prone areas -- and when they're demolished by a storm, we rebuild in the same spot.

^Time.com

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Thursday, November 02, 2006

oh...hello xanga. i forgot you existed for a couple weeks there.

anyways.

my photography class is challenging me right now, challenging my artistic capacity, challenging my perseverence, challenging just about everything else. though it's not a really hard class, i just make it challenging because i want to learn. i love the prof who is teaching that class. his name is craig. he's great.

ummmm....parts of my life are drifting away it seems, other parts are morphing and changing...weird.

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