Attaboy Media

Musings on assorted geekery by Luke Andrews when he's not writing at attaboy.ca.

    5 January
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    → Listen to Andrew Bird's new album, Noble Beast
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    22 December
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    19 December
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    Classic communication skills and design sense from Environment Canada. Clearly not a big fan of lowercase letters. OR PARAGRAPHS. OR AVOIDING REPETITION. THAT’S REPEATING ONESELF. LIKE SAYING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
    Classic communication skills and design sense from Environment Canada. Clearly not a big fan of lowercase letters. OR PARAGRAPHS. OR AVOIDING REPETITION. THAT’S REPEATING ONESELF. LIKE SAYING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
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    17 December
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    → A Guide to Understanding Flow Charts
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    11 December
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    Telemarketing caller ID
    Telemarketing caller ID
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    9 December
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    → Let’s immigrate to Canada and then break it apart
    In which I ask why left-wing Quebeckers are sovereigntist by necessity.
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    6 December
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    Movie rental on your PS3

    I think you can rent movies on the PlayStation 3 in the U.S., but here in Canada, no such service is available yet. On the bright side, Criterion’s new rental service works fine in the PS3 web browser, and you can make the picture full screen for a rather pleasant viewing experience. It’s not HD, but the quality is pretty decent.

    Of course, there are only about 20 movies available at criterion.com so far, but that will no doubt change since they just launched the service. And, since it’s Criterion, you can be pretty sure that everyone is a good movie, if not an all-time classic.

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    4 December
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    → NatsuLion

    I’ve been looking for a second desktop Twitter client for OS X. Twitterrific is fine, but I use it for my personal account and I want to monitor our company Twitter account as well. First I tried cloning Twitterrific and running it twice, but I found that too confusing since the windows were nearly identical. Then I tried and loathed various AIR apps. Finally, I’ve settled on NatsuLion. Out of the box, the colours are a bit ugly, but a few tweaks and it’s liveable. (Try the dark palette with little or no transparency.) Also, it doesn’t hog a ton of RAM or CPU (yes, AIR, I’m talking to you) and the icon is super cute. Grrrowl!

    NatsuLion icon

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    1 December
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    Cancelled MobileMe today. I had been on the “free trial” since August, but it was finally approaching time to pay. In the end, the only thing I appreciated about it was instant syncing of contacts, calendars and bookmarks. But that just isn’t worth $120+ per year. And, as a special bonus, by cancelling MobileMe, my iPhone now shows my contacts’ birthdays again. Yes, that’s right: I’ve gained functionality by cancelling MobileMe.
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    20 November
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    So close, yet so far

    1. la
    2. new hampshire’s
    3. lead singer
    4. mickey andrews
    5. luke andrews

    — my first through fifth attempts at saying my name to Google Voice Search on the iPhone

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