• Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On June 26, 2003

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Helpful iTunes tip

I came home tonight and iTunes wouldn’t start, complaining that “the iTunes Music Library cannot be read because it does not appear to be a valid library file.” Here are some good instructions on how to fix it, courtesy Joe Crawford.

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On June 26, 2003

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Well, that was interesting

I didn’t mean to stir up the shit today, but it looks like that’s what I managed to do. Among other things, I got some very rational observations in my comments on the piece about the Echo project that made me think twice about the whole issue, namely that this could be a way to [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On June 26, 2003

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A hamhock in your blog

Ah, it’s too nice a day to be pissed off. I will note, however, as long as I’m stepping in things, that I think the word “funky” is being misapplied to RSS 2.0 feeds with extra items; but for different reasons than Don Park does. Fundamentally, funk is about booty, not XML. (Yes, I said [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On June 26, 2003

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A civilian in the format wars

Brent yesterday declared his neutrality in the brewing revolution called the Echo Project which is working to displace RSS and the Meta-Weblog API (among others) as the blogging wire formats of choice. Good call, Brent. As a civilian observer and consumer of these formats, I’m going to have to go a little further. This is [...]