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As of April 7 Apple has a new pricing scheme for music. Previously all music was $0.99, then they introduced new DRM-free (iTunes Plus) music for an additional fee. Now, as per what was announced back in January at Macworld, there are three price points.
$1.29 – Popular and new music will all be [...]

I’ve been moved over to DreamHost for a total of… three minutes. If you’re interested, here’s what I did:
1. First I logged into my domain via GoDaddy’s SSH, I zip’d all of my files as allfiles.zip via the command zip -r allfiles.zip * This command says to zip (* means wildcard, so [...]

Here is the how-to video accompanying my earlier post on how-to enable the built-in VNC server in VMWare Fusion 2.0. You can find more detailed instructions here.

How-to Enable VMWare Fusion’s VNC Server from Brad Arsenault on Vimeo.

If you haven’t read it already in my twitter updates, I purchased a Hero 329–a replica of the infamous Parker 51.  And however this pen doesn’t fill in the same way as some of the Parker 51’s, this is a very commmon filling mechanism.  This is for use with fountain pens with ink bladders.
It’s of [...]

In the past week I’ve done lots of work with eBay (in an attempt to get a vintage Parker 51). Any what I’ve found is that the other bidders seem to be able to outbid you instantly after clicking “confirm bid”–this is because of auto-bidding. To enable auto-bidding, when outbidding someone type in your maximum [...]