Michael and Jeff have similar isues with the MT upgrade, based on the number of blogs and authors they are currently hosting.

iTunes Catalog.

[Thanks Tom.]

Why not to do what not to do.

The LA Times’ calendarlive.com digs a little deeper on the Bob Edwards story.

[via MoFi.]

I gotta say the 9/11 hearings on the radio are making for gripping listening.

the electric sheep screen-saver [via BoingBoing].

Neat-o.

Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes – How to Share Libraries is a hoary how-to covering a way to provide full-user-rights access to a single song collection.

I’m reviewing this to see if there’s a way to rip simultaneously to a networked storage area from two or more machines and have the new song data be simultaneously available to all the copies of iTunes running. Currently, System A and System B write file data to the Library files separately and locally.

The obvious solution is to go under the hood and set up symbolic links such that all the iTunes instances write to the same file. The question is, “Can iTunes manage record-locking, or does it rely on a file-locking approach? What if there is no locking protocol at all? Does that corrupt the database?”

Generally, I suppose the right way to work this out is to test it empirically, since it’s easy to rebuild the database if there’s a problem by smply dragging the files into the iTunes window.

One supposes that disabling iTunes’ “keep my music folder organized” option might be a bright idea before moving ahead wth the test.

National Corndog Day: [via MeFi]

(Dammit! Two MeFi food links in 24 hours! And I call myself unemployed!)

This March 20, I know I’ll be celebrating a special holiday with my loved one. Mmmm.

Spalding Gray, 62, Actor and Monologuist, Is Confirmed Dead [NYT] – Gray called from the ferry, saying he was going to visit some friends.

ESPN.com – MLB – John Henry Williams dies; lies frozen beside Ted [ESPN via BoingBoing] – A message left for Williams’ lawyers was not returned.

Zapata Murder Trial Begins [P-I]- No telephones appear in this story, although it begins at the Comet.

Aristide Under Lock and Key, Delegation Says [Magic City News]- “Mildred Aristide answered the phone. I said, ‘Hello Mildred, this is Kim Ives, we are here.’ At that point, the phone line went dead. We have tried to call many times since then but there has been no answer.” This article is interesting; I hope a non-activist source investigates.

Witness says phone went dead when she asked suspect if he killed girl [San Diego Union Tribune] – A woman testified today that she asked if her acquaintance was the murderer – then the line went dead. (Bonus points for proper use, in the lede.)

On this Ask MetaFilter thread, user mert requests the identity of a ‘gravelly voiced Russian folk singer who sounds a lot like Tom Waits.’ He notes that he then gets a bunch of the identified singer’s music off Kazaa.

I, of course, think I know of a American singer he might like, and I am now interested in tracking down Mr. Vysotsky’s music myself.