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Ouch, looks like Wired is putting a mild smack down upon Michelle Delio.

I’ve got a lot of MP3s, and I’m slightly obsessed with managing them. The problem is, I don’t know which ones are listed in my iTunes Library, and which ones aren’t.

Here’s how I used Spotlight to locate all the missing, “un-databased” MP3s.

First off, currently it’s not easy to create a Smart Folder that will match on a Boolean NOT. It’s possible, but not easy. The way to do it is to enclose the NOT term in parentheses, with a hyphen. For example, “bugs(-aphids)” would show all instances of “bugs”, and not “aphids”. As far as I know, there’s no good way to search for an empty set, or “”.

Mmm, salt.

Ahh, the first bits of fallout from Trent’s experiment: a mashup of The Hand that Feeds and the Ghostbusters theme song titled The Ghost That Feeds.

In reference to this post, yeah, AppRocket sucks.

It’s fairly good as a launcher — better than most, but it still gets confused by multiple matching Start Menu items. For example, if you type ‘FIR’, intending to launch Firefox, AppRocket will show you multiple instances of Firefox: one for “All users”, and one for your account. Overall, the program is no Quicksilver.

It still would’ve been a keeper had it not been ninja-payware. Nowhere on the AppRocket webpage or on the download page is anything listed about how the app will self-destruct after about a month if you don’t buy it. I’ve checked all around the site and still see nothing about this auto-expiry.

This site shows a stack-ranked list of gas prices, low to high, for the Atlanta area.

Trent Reznor is releasing a new nine inch nails album in a few days, titled “with teeth”.

Today he posted a gift for Mac users — a 70MB Garageband sample kit.

Here’s a nifty formula that’ll create a calendar in Excel:

Make a calendar in Excel:

=IF(MONTH(DATE(YEAR(NOW()),MONTH(NOW()),1))
<>MONTH(DATE(YEAR(NOW()),MONTH(NOW()),1)-
(WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR(NOW()),MONTH(NOW()),1))-1)
{0;1;2;3;4;5}*7 {1,2,3,4,5,6,7}-1),””,DATE(YEAR(NOW()),
MONTH(NOW()),1)-(WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR(NOW()),
MONTH(NOW()),1))-1) {0;1;2;3;4;5}*7 {1,2,3,4,5,6,7}-1)

To use it:

1. Copy the formula text to the clipboard
2. Activate an Excel sheet and select a 7-col by 6-row range
3. Press F2
4. Press Ctrl V to paste the formula into the active cell
5. Press Ctrl Shift Enter (to make it a multicell array formula)
6. Format the cells using the “Date” number format.

Oooh, here’s a neato site full of instructions on how to cut food.

Me: Damn, this is pretty harsh: “Since 1274, and the Ubi Periculum rule, cardinals are fed one meal a day during the election, and only bread and water if they haven’t decided after 5 days. They are held in complete seclusion and the recent Universi Dominici Gregis regulation forbids access to newspapers, radio or television. ”

Daniel: “Yeah. But hell, it’s kinda like Survivor: if you can outlast the other contestants in this new car, you win the car. Only this time, it’s a bigger hat.”