http://www.btracer.com The Personal Blog of Brandon M. Tracer. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:51:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.btracer.com/2008/09/sulfur-hexafluoride/ The faboulous RIAA stuffs yet another dead corpse into its trunk. Muxtape started back in March of 2008 and has been growing steadily in popularity since then. To put it simply, Muxtape allowed a user to upload a playlist of songs to its site and then share those playlists with other ... http://www.btracer.com/2008/08/more-bodies-in-the-trunk/ WordPress v2.6 is out today and I've upgraded the blog here to the latest and greatest. Plenty of new features in this version, like a handy word counter to the right of the window I'm typing this post in. Other features include: revisions for posts, which is quite handy for collaborative ... http://www.btracer.com/2008/07/2point6/ http://www.btracer.com/2008/07/yes/ Looks like JPL NASA and members of the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona will be sleeping soundly tonight, or maybe they'll be up all night from anxiety.  I'd probably be in the latter. Their joint project to drop the Phoenix lander onto the surface of Mars has ... http://www.btracer.com/2008/05/dropping-in/ I'm an avid reader of the popular programming Weblog, The Daily WTF .  I have to echo an entry from April 14th: A friend of mine recently bought a product called PrintMaster. He had some trouble installing the software and called me up for some tech support. He was receiving an ... http://www.btracer.com/2008/04/clean-install/ Here be a new blog theme, I think its kinda sexy. I'll post some more news, if you want to call it that, when it comes down the pipe. http://www.btracer.com/2008/04/dontcha/ It's CSS Naked Day for 2008.  Nude is in. http://www.btracer.com/2008/04/naked/ There's been quite a bit of buzz around tech blogs regarding the new startup called TagCow.  In a nutshell, you submit your photos to TagCow and you'll receive the exact same photos, but tagged.  TagCow uses Amazon's new people-based Mechanical Turk service, where people do the work that computers cannot, ... http://www.btracer.com/2008/04/mechanical-turk/ Germany-based telecom Deutsche Telekom apparently believes it can trademark the color magenta.  Weblog Inc's "Engadget Mobile" site also uses a magenta color in its flag.  Deutsche Telekom doesn't approve. More here: http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/painting-the-town-magenta/ and the order: http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/deutsche-telekom-t-mobile-demands-engadget-mobile-discontinue/ PS: This ordeal isn't a joke but happy April Fool's day, too. http://www.btracer.com/2008/04/magenta/