2020-10-09 (Friday)
Tweets
@smagdali The two .MP3s were never identified and I don't seem to have them in iTunes/Music now, so not sure what they were. There was also a Leftfield track but I don't know which one.
@blech This says "Onboard memory: 32MB, upgradable". There's also a 32MB card in the slot. So advanced!
The same friends gathered a bunch of MP3s for me at the time, most of which are on Spotify, so here's a nice playlist of those lovely, and sometimes odd, pre-millennium tunes open.spotify.com/playlist/2aU7K…
Phew, just found my MP3 player. 32 whole megabytes of removable storage. That’s several entire songs! A present from friends 21 years ago.
@mrstth I either didn't know about that or had forgotten. It looks even weirder than I imagined! youtu.be/3ZyFWO7u2Bk?t=…
Anyone got a late 1990s Mac and want any/all of these? 680x0 or Power Macintosh. Includes serial numbers for the Adobe/Quark disks.
Liked tweets
Today I should have been announced as the new D&AD President. But I look around at the world and I see too many people who look like me in symbolic positions like this. So I made the decision to stand aside. More here noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/2020/10…