http://tmmtlt.com Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:36:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the weekend I burned through Timothy Carter's Epoch. It was provided free of charge and sent through Minibook Expo, an awesome site where you can get books for free so long as you let the publisher know what you thought about the book(s) in question. Here's publisher Flux's summary... In his ... http://tmmtlt.com/2008/09/02/book-meview-epoch/ I accepted an offer for a position at The CBC on Thursday, August 21st, so starting September 8th I'll be working there as an Associate Producer of online content. The opportunities that present themselves just by virtue of being in the building are incredible, and I feel fortunate for having ... http://tmmtlt.com/2008/08/25/me-the-cbc/ I've been all pissy and complainy lately, so I figured I should post something less, err, pissy and complainy. There's lots of other great relics from your childhood over at the NFB's Beta Video serving site! http://tmmtlt.com/2008/08/15/the-very-next-day/ Hard copies mailed to Mr. Alex Rigopulos and Mr. Eran Egozy Hard copies CC: Mr. Mike Dornbrook (Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, Harmonix), Mr. Greg LoPiccolo (Vice President of Product Development, Harmonix), John Riccitiello (Chief Executive Officer, EA) Email only CC: Floyd Watkins (PR Operations Coordinator, EA) I bought ... http://tmmtlt.com/2008/08/11/dear-mr-alex-rigopulos-and-mr-eran-egozy-co-founders-of-harmonix/ I was given a Zune as part of a Microsoft campaign. Companies do it all the time- get the product into people's hands, and if it's good they'll let other people know. My Zune arrived 5 days ago and I sang it's praises for the first 4 days. Today I give ... http://tmmtlt.com/2008/07/25/zune-fail/ The NFB has always held a strange place in my heart. On the one hand they provide the means for a lot of film makers to create and distribute their works. Without the NFB, many awesome little (and bigger) indie films wouldn't see the light of day. On the other hand ... http://tmmtlt.com/2008/07/24/nfb-starts-streaming-their-catalog-for-free/ Less a hack and more of an exploit, this article details how to do it, but the quickest way to explain it is that anything that has the "Podcast" tag in the genre section of the ID3 tags will be free to share without any DRM. This will cause ... http://tmmtlt.com/2008/07/23/bypass-the-zune-3x-play-shared-song-drm/ E3 has come and gone and I now know exactly why I will be dirt poor by the end of the year. The amount of software that I must have for the PS3 (and to a lesser degree my PC). With videos linked to the titles and in no Particular ... http://tmmtlt.com/2008/07/22/my-ps3pc-ate-my-wallet-a-premonition-post/ Thanks to my double crossing friend I'll be getting a Zune 8gb (no idea what colour) as part of a marketing program from a local company called Matchstick. The gist is that they give me a free Zune so long as I talk about it. Truth be told, I'm quite ... http://tmmtlt.com/2008/07/17/hacking-my-zune-before-i-get-it/ Yahoo just announced BOSS, short for Build your Own Search Service. I can't say I saw this one coming, but then again it takes a lot for me to actually care about something that involves the acronym API. The service allows those with the know-how to take the Yahoo search engine ... http://tmmtlt.com/2008/07/10/disrupted-search/