I just added more RAM (2 GB) to our Mac Mini Intel Core Duo. It wasn’t super difficult but tricky enough, that I wouldn’t be thrilled to do it again.

(Note that this post covers the Intel Mac Minis (Core Solo, Core Duo, and Core 2 Duo Mac Mini). These are not the same internally as the G4 Mac Minis.)

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I’m a long admitted sucker for spacey-pop and women’s vocals, and my new personal sugar high is The Bird And The Bee. I was embarrassingly pulled in from left field via a Mac-themed viral video set to the aggressively hooky electro-pop masterpiece Again & Again, and it was soon game over after some short sample listens through iTunes.

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So Twitter continues to go down, again today. It’s getting to the point where you can count on it happening at least once a week.

Some folks over on FriendFeed are talking about a “Twit-Out” boycott of the Twitter service next week Wednesday. Feel free to participate if these outages annoy you.

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Here’s another podcast.

Topics:

• Seesmic and Disqus team up for video comments. The novelty is already wearing off, mostly because I doubt the value added and it’s not as efficient as typing comments, in my case anyhow.
• Bird And The Bee: I bought their first album which features the track of that viral video regarding the Mac. Big thumbs up; text review coming soon.
• Elvis Costello’s new album Momofuku. My text review is here. Big thumbs up here as well.

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Steven Hodson wrote a good post about GMail not working out for him as a primary email client. One of his complaints was the use of labels and how they weren’t a satisfying replacement for folders to organize email.

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Seesmic, a startup that provides video comments to blogs, recently worked with Disqus to provide video comments to Disqus-enabled blogs. Sorry if that’s confusing, but the end result is this blog now has video comments enabled as a result. See below for an example.

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Elvis Costello’s latest disc is hasty and inconsiderate. The song titles and album art look tossed off, the twelve tracks were recorded in a week and mixed a week later. The distribution method was haphazard - it was released on vinyl first and then as a download, and CD last. The album’s title refers to Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant ramen noodles, hinting at a quick snack as opposed to a nourishing, slow-cooked meal.

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Synopsis

Biopic of Howard Hughes, the reclusive airline tycoon, who moves from early failure to success while morphing into an obsessive-compulsive, paranoid recluse.

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Synopsis

A mysterious virus transforms people into rabid monsters. London is deserted an overrun by the “infected” and the few remaining citizens fight to survive.

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Twitter is now known for going down without warning, leaving Twitter-addicts moaning that they feel disconnected and the world is coming to an end.

But the complaining brings up an issue that bugs me - it’s modus operandi for new web services to be free, initially. Free drives early user adoption, which is great.

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