From ‘The Engineer’ magazine 22 March 1968:
“Sir, —” I refer to you second leader “Is the Customer Getting Value for Money?” (1 March, 1968). In the text you refer to “designers and engineers”.
It is almost forty years since i graduated as an engineer and I have still to meet a “designer”. This elusive gentleman occurs frequently in print, especially in newspapers, but where he comes from, how he is trained and what are his qualifications are matter which to me remain unresolved.
I have met draughtsmen and engineers who designs; in fact, I thought the engineer’s primary function was to design, but it seems that there are few who think thus.
Can you resolve this life-long mystery for me?
source, via hicksdesign.co.uk’s sidenotes
A while back Willow bought me the USB MixTape Stick from suckuk. It’s a small cardboard box that looks like an old cassette tape, and inside it it’s a 64MB USB memory stick. Having been a mix-tape-creator in my young days, I love this crossover from old to new formats. The “new way” does eliminate some of the beauty and craft required in making a good mix-tape but, never the less, it’s at least a physical object to hand over to someone.
Anyway, as the title implies, I would love if this little USB device could pop-up and be managed through iTunes. I have given Google quite a few queries but can’t seem to find an answer. Maybe it’s not possible…
The closest I’ve got is trying to fool iTunes into believing that the removable device is a compact disc by create a file named ‘ContentsDB.xml’ and place it on the device. I could live with that — a ‘read only’ device. But unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work anymore.
Does anyone have any ideas?