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MacBook Air 11.6″. Some real world usage notes

Thursday, October 28, 2010
Hey folks. So I picked up one of Apple's new MacBook Air notebooks. I had been wanting a more portable computer than my trusty tote-able 2008 MacBook Pro and the new 11.6" form factor was mighty tempting. I did spring for the BTO 4GB RAM upgrade, but I opted to stick with the stock 64GB hard drive. My first impressions are, like a lot of other reviewers, ...

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Last.fm to be acquired by CBS: Sense of foreboding permeates the Internet

Wednesday, May 30, 2007
I don't use the site as much as I should, but it's cool nonetheless. But I find this trend of useful, independent websites getting bought by soulless corporations to be increasingly annoying. $280 million though. It sure it's hard for those UK boys to pass up. The last.fm blog claims there's no reason to worry and that CBS "understands the Last.fm vision." Still, as we've seen with ...

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thom yorke has class

Saturday, June 17, 2006
I haven't run across much radiohead on the tunequest. top 10 artists are currently excluded so that i appreciate the middle and lower rungs of my collection. And don't worry, there's plenty. Anyways, here's an amusing post from Thom himself. The incident is ironic, considering radiohead's last album was called hail to the thief.

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Constitution on iPod

Tuesday, June 6, 2006
This isn't directly tunequest related, but it does involve an iPod, so it's close enough. You can read the U.S. Constitution using the iPod's Notes feature. I like history, so that's cool.

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