Steve’s Stuff

You may already know about the Internet Archive because of the Wayback Machine. Well, Sherman, the Wayback Machine contains an online history of the World Wide Web. Using it, you can find stuff that’s disappeared from current websites (and websites themselves that have disappeared).

That’s only a small part of the archive. If you’re a Deadhead or fan of other bands, check out the Live Music Archive. At your fingertips are thousands of concerts and other performances, with quality ranging from audience tape recorders to direct soundboard recordings.

That is, CCIM is now using Twitter to get the word out. Follow us at http://twitter.com/ccim. The Chief Twits here are Edward Bury, R.J. Sirois, Dennis Lamantia, Kathleen O’Shaughnessy, and me.

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It should have been easy. I cleaned up some longstanding music organization issues on my notebook and started iTunes to let it catch up. It wound up creating duplicate entries for several hundred songs — marked as unavailable, but duplicates nonetheless. It turns out there’s no easy way to tell iTunes to remove deleted files from the library.

This guy has it figured out.

It would be cool if there were an app that told you what apps you use. Of the 4 screens of apps on my phone, the ones that get used the most are the built-ins (iTunes, iPod, calendar, mail, safari, maps), and those relating to news and weather (AP Mobile, NYTimes, WeatherBug) and, of course, Facebook. Now I’m pondering whether I should reorder the apps so the most frequently used are on one screen. (There’s another app that would be useful, one to reorder apps by name or by frequency of use or by recency of use.)

What I’ve learned today: There are multiple causes of high head pressure. We’ve worked through them, one at a time. The starting assumption was that the flow from the cooling tower was being blocked. Both strainers were cleaned. No change. Then we discovered the AC unit had encased it in a block of ice. We turned it off last night and let it all melt. No change. The current theory is that the water pipes coming from the tower and running through the AC are limed up. Tonight, we’re bringing in the “acid cleaning” specialist.

We’ll be turning off a bunch of servers, but no member services should be affected.

Currently the temp in the server room is holding at 79.

At the fairgrounds in Des Moines, on May 13, 1973.

Hah! (As they say on Car Talk.)

There’s still more to write about the iPhone. If you use CCIM.NET email, I’ve put up a guide at http://www.ccim.net/iphone.pdf. CCIM.NET mail works pretty darn well on an iPhone.,

It’s been a while since I posted here. I’ve been lost, wandering around in the new CCIM areas on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. If you’re interested in CCIM, please join us there. The easiest way to keep up with it might be to set your home page to http://home.ccim.net. It’s been set up to link to RSS feeds about CCIM from Twitter, Google News, Google blog search, as well as your own ccim.net email account. Check it out!

Sometimes, things are just backwards. I’ve been trying to figure out why my 4PM scheduled conference call keeps showing up on the iPhone at 2PM. Then it hit me that the call was scheduled by someone in California. Outlook supports time zones, so it shows it as 4PM central.

The iPhone has a switch that says “time zones” and I had it turned on. Silly me. Support time zones apparently means “ignore the time zone conversions and display in the time zone of the appointment rather than in the time zone you care about.” Or something like that.

Anyhow, this is figured out and I’m back in the happy zone.

As I explained to my seatmate at Porgy and Bess a couple of weeks ago at the Lyric, I started with an appreciation of opera at an early age.