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Here’s another tip.

This just happened to me the other day. I synced my iPod Classic, went to look at cover flow mode, and half the albums just showed up as pure black.

I did a little searching, found a suggested fix, tried it, and it worked. Here’s what you do if you run into this problem…

Connect the iPod and open iTunes.

Go to the music tab. Uncheck “Display album artwork on your iPod“. The iPod should actually, at this point, automatically sync again. If it doesn’t, just sync it.

Then re-check the box (“Display album artwork on your iPod“), and sync the iPod again.

Worked perfectly for me. Good luck.

Okay, I’m noticing on my web counter that a lot of searches are coming in looking for a way to unjailbreak an iPhone.

Now, I’ve never jailbroken mine, so I can’t tell you for sure, but I did some searching to see if I could help the people who keep coming here looking for an answer to that question.

The best answer I got was:

Just restore your iPhone.

I don’t know if that’s easy but I imagine that actually would unjailbreak the phone.

Good luck. Tell me if I’m wrong and a restore doesn’t work and I’ll dig further and find something that does.

For those of you who care…

Someone has ported a PC-created mod map, custom, user-designed, to the PS3. It’s a deathmatch map, fairly small, made for maybe six people.

To download the file go here:

http://files.filefront.com/DM+Shrine+PS3+Map/;9292864;/fileinfo.html

Then you need a memory card or flash/jump drive of some sort. Unzip the file onto the flash drive or whatever (not into a folder, just the root directory), plug it into your playstation, fire up UT III, at the main screen go to “Community” and then…there may be one more step I’m missing but it’s obvious…anyway you hit square to import the mod.

Worked perfectly for me, is all I can say, and the map is fun. The name of the map, by the way, is “Shrine”.

Just for those who are interested, thought I’d post my Playstation Network gamer ID:

Kippah9

Inventive, huh?

And yes, I always play the Pats in Madden and I don’t care what you think about that.

This is a pretty good summing up of what, other than the iPhone, has been a relatively lousy year for tech advancements.

ABC compiled a list of the fifteen biggest offenders…and, of course, it doesn’t take much to guess their #1 contender: Windows Vista.

Anyway, interesting read.

Years ago, a friend of mine signed me up for the MA Libertarian newsletter, put out by Carla Howell and Michael Cloud. Since then, the friend in question has, quite wisely, moved from Libertarian to hardline conservative (this happens when you finally realize Libertarians with a big-L are, on a number of issues, clinically insane and/or stoned).

However, the good hardline conservative AND the good hardline liberal sometimes come full circle and find themselves sitting down for a Libertarian pow-wow. The Libertarians put some good things out there, and this is one of them: the ballot initiative to END the income tax in Massachusetts.

So I’m putting up their latest little email to me. Fans of small government in MA, take note, you might want to donate.

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From: Small Government News
To: likeI’mgonnapostmyprivateaddy@mydamnblog.com
Subject: The Perfect Christmas Gift: ENDing the Income Tax in Massachusetts

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THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT: ENDING THE INCOME TAX IN MASSACHUSETTS
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Thank You for making this an unforgettable season.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays,

Carla Howell & Michael Cloud

Oh yeah. You gotta love this one.

I’m sure Hillary’s thrilled. 😉

Me, I’m tickled pink.

Gennifer Flowers, the first Bill Bimbo to come along in 1992 (of course, he has a long history of Arkansas affairs — that, many claim, were all handled and hushed up by…Hillary…) thinks (and it’s hurting her head) that she might vote for Hillary.

There’s an endorsement I love.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/us/politics/07flowers.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Okay, so I’m done with my second trip to the dentist in the “rebuild all your teeth” venture.

I have had nine teeth drilled now, and somewhere around sixteen holes drilled. You bet my life smiles on dentist’s wallets. I’m not sure how he counts cavities. In retrospect, I shouldn’t have skipped any dental treatment in Perth while I was there, but hindsight is 20/20. As my man Nig said, this is why he hasn’t been to the dentist in eight years and why I skipped him for just as many. Because I knew the SOB would want to drill. So now I’m paying for not letting him drill earlier. Trust me, folks, go to the damn dentist on a regular basis. I’m going to end up looking like Jaws from James Bond when this thing is over, there’s so much silver amalgam going into my mouth.

On a positive note, the guy gave me painkillers on the first visit, but wouldn’t give me any more on the second visit. Nice enough guy, but give me a fucking break, everybody hates the dentist, I’m showing up while you drill the crap out of me, do me a favor and toss me a ‘scrip for some damn painkillers. Go down a schedule and give me frickin’ Tylenol with codeine. I don’t care, but you owe me something for letting you sadistically drill the crap out of my mouth.

Don’t you just love the smell of smoke when they drill into you?

Although — God bless my old dentist in Los Angeles who used to be so liberal with his use of Novocaine. And, to tell you the truth, it doesn’t hurt that bad. Oh, it hurts, believe me, he’s doing a lot of work on me, but it’s manageable pain. Eating is a bit of a bitch, though, since I have to not use particular sides of my mouth and so on after a visit.

Six more to go. At least I get a ten-day break before the next one. Maybe that’s long enough to prescribe me another damn handful of painkillers. I fucking deserve it. I stand by that.

Thing could be worse, though. I could need a root canal. I don’t need one yet. *knock on wood*

I’m not going to call this a review of Genji: Days of the Blade, it’s going to be too short.

Here’s all you need to know. It’s another Ninja Gaiden Sigma/Devil May Cry/Heavenly Sword-type game (enhance your weapons by gathering stuff from defeated enemies and such), although Ninja Gaiden Sigma and Devil May Cry and Heavenly Sword are all much better than it.

It’s not a bad game. What it suffers from is a static camera. Exactly. You can’t move the camera angle. It’s infuriating at times, downright idiotic at others (as you thrust to attack enemies who are offscreen).

However, it’s a good play, and it’s fairly long (I’d say 15 hours or so at absolutely max playing speed? Or maybe more like 20). The voice acting is good, the graphics are very nice, etc. It uses the PS3 engine to deliver some very nice-looking effects. Unfortunately, it’s one of those early-release PS3 games that’s there to do just about that and only that — showcase a little bit of what the PS3 can do.

I picked it up on a rental and am planning on beating it. And having fun with it. I actually put down Assassin’s Creed to play it, bad camera angles and all.

Definitely worth a rental. Just don’t buy this thing. Don’t buy Heavenly Sword, while you’re at it, because while that one’s really a great game, it is pathetically short.

Okay. I’ve been accused of being a Patriot “ball-licker”, but I’m going to say it, right here, right now:

The Ravens deserved to win that ballgame tonight.

Without question.

They outplayed the Patriots, they had the game in the bag, and then one of the most outrageous serious of blunders on the part of the Ravens cost them a game they should have had — topped by a timeout called by Billick which, had he not called, would have been the end of the game.

These guys cannot play like this against the Colts and expect to win. They cannot play like this against the Steelers and expect to win.

I don’t know what the hell’s happened to them, and it ain’t just the wind, but the Patriots stole one from the Ravens while playing a really shitty game of football on both sides of the ball.

I tip my hat to the Ravens and Ravens fans. You guys deserved that win.

I’m off to go have a heart attack now.