a.k.a. Little L

Great news! Apple will now allow you to choose the songs you want to update to iTunes Plus!

There’s more info at Ars Technica – Per-Song iTunes Plus Upgrades Now Available.

At 30¢ a song, I think it’s a good deal. In the past, I’ve upgraded my songs whenever possible, Once a month I’d check to see if I had any songs that were eligible, and if they were, I’d upgrade. A few cents here, a buck there. Nothing too much.

After the announcement at the latest Macworld, I went to upgrade my songs. It turned out that it was going to cost me $50! I can afford $10, but $50’s a bit much for me, right now. I did not realize that I had so many iTunes purchases. (that’s X songs, FYI)

There are some songs in there where I’d really like to have them at 256K, but there are some where it’d be nice, but not so important.

I think I see some iTunes browsing in my future…

(Thanx to Daring Fireball)

I’m trying MarsEdit. I love BBEdit, and I’ve used it for blogging. I really like to work, with BBEdit’s environment. But I miss something. Not sure what. So I’m trying MarsEdit. Hmmm…

Over at TWIP (This Week In Photography) there’s a cool story about Scott Bourne’s photo “Cranes in the Fire Mist” that took 12-years to capture. It’s called Pre-visualization and Patience Can Pay Off .

Every year, for 12 years, he made a trek to Bosque del Apache in New Mexico. He thought about the composition and light in the photo that he wanted. He learned what the weather had to be for it to happen. He prepared his gear. He had a list of nine things that had to be in place, including a cold, cloudless morning with slight winds from the west or northwest. Oh yeah, the birds had to be there, too!

It’s a great photo, and now that I know the back story, it’s even more impressive.

Wow.

While searching for an RPN calculator widget, I found The Caveman’s Calculator. It’s a slide rule!

"Download it now and rediscover the lost art and fun while impressing (or perhaps losing) your friends."

Recently, my Dad gave me a couple of slide rules. I just can’t throw them away. They’re very cool.

J is home from school, today. He had a hard time sleeping through the night for the second night in a row. Coughed and coughed. It didn't wake him up, but he never acheived a deep sleep. Yesterday, he was wiped when we got up for school. So after another night of coughing, we decided that he would be better off not going to school.

Every year, when the seasons change from Summer to Fall, or Winter to Spring, his breathing is affected. He always seems short of breath. When it's worse, his coughs squeak, and it sounds like he has some fluid in his lungs. In the evenings, he starts to have a dry cough. Sometimes it'll be a series of coughs, with several minutes between coughs. Sometimes it gets worse, and there's only a few seconds between a cough.

It doesn't really slow him down. He says he feels fine. (which is good. He doesn't see this as "being sick.")

We've been dealing with this for the past 5 or 6 years, and we finally feel like we know what's going on, and this no need to panic. Just have him do a treatment, and watch.

Check out Frasier Speirs post Exposure 1.1 post-mortem. It has some interesting notes about iPhone development.