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The writings of Robert Scoble are like a thousand monkeys typing, short about 999 monkeys.
The clown who’s systematically filling CDDB with track names like this:
Death Of a Clown - (Something Else - 1967)
would better stop it, FYOSP. There are the album and year fields for, well, the album title and the year.
Two great articles by Jeff Harrell where he explains in great details yet very simply how Time Machine works:
Instead of actually making copies of the already-backed-up files, it looks at them for a second, then goes, “Let’s not and say we did.”
Pretty darned close to perfection
But here’s the thing: If you’re not plugged in at 8:37 — say you’re sitting on your porch enjoying your morning coffee — Time Machine doesn’t mind. It doesn’t throw any big, annoying error message at you. It just says — silently, in the background, recorded only in a log file you really have to look for to find — “Okay, we can’t back up now; we’ll just back up again whenever this guy plugs in his external disk.”
And then … it does.
His blog layout is gorgeous too.
An AppleScript to play my iPod music in shuffle from iTunes:
tell application "iTunes"
activate
-- Get the first iPod, I don't usually have more than one connected at the same time
set myiPod to first item of (every source whose kind is iPod)
-- Get the 'Music' playlist
set myiPodMusic to playlist "Music" of myiPod
-- View the playlist, turn on shuffle, minimize the window
set view of front window to myiPodMusic
set shuffle of myiPodMusic to true
set minimized of front window to true
-- Play some tunes
play
end tell
I run it with FastScripts.