He Writes the Songs: Mac Songs. The Beatles sang about love, the Beach Boys crooned over the joys of surfing. Teacher John Swerdan has just cut an album about Macintosh computers. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] [Mac Net Journal]

I just set up a pretty eclectic play list in iTunes for my listening pleasure as I work the rest of the afternoon.

iTunes has changed the way I listen to music. I almost never listen to an actual CD. Instead, I can pick & choose any tune I want in any order. If I couldn’t keep them on my drive as MP3 files (which the record companies would like to prevent us from doing), I’d need to keep all of my CDs in a big, bulky jukebox.

The play list I’m now listening to includes Afro-Celt Sound System, Baaba Maal, Ali Farka Toure, Johnny Clegg, Enya, Clannad, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Gorillaz, Goo Goo Dolls, Paul Simon, and Bob Marley among others.

Hint: never call OTAllocMemInContext if Open Transport hasn’t been initialized. Your application will die a horrible death, causing the debugger to freeze as well. I spent most of the morning as well as most of yesterday afternoon tearing my hair out over that one.

Students Suspended for Displaying “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” Banner [Plastic]

14361 ª February 1 4:55 AM. Bootylicious vs. Smells like teen spirit (MP3-link). Although it might be a little of the mainstream META-postings, I chose to post this piece of Soulwax music (MP3) because I really want to hear your reactions. The energy attained in this synergetic combination exceeds even math rock. [MetaFilter]

It would be nice if PHPNuke supported Blogger API or some other method of remote posting, since their story editor really sucks. If and when I get a chance, I may start hacking at it.

Is it possible to route only one particular channel from Radio via Blogger API? It would be really cool if I could add a MacMegasite channel and have anything going to that channel automatically posted at MacMegasite.

USB Overdrive beta for Mac OS X. As announced on Jan. 22, Alessandro Levi Montalcini has released the beta version of USB Overdrive for Mac OS X. [MacMegasite]

Awesome! I just installed it & it works great, even if it is still beta.

I really like this theme.

CodeWarrior keeps freezing on me so often, that I finally added the following alias to my .cshrc:

I’m starting to get used to debugging from the terminal window with GDB. Unless I’m missing something, there doesn’t seem to be a way to pass a command line to the executable from CodeWarrior’s debugger, and I can’t use ccommand() in a Mach-O binary. I need to pass my application a single argument telling it what kind of connection to establish, which as far as I can tell I can only do if I run it from the terminal.