Emacs

So this week I have run in to a number of technical issues. First of all, when I run emacs from the command line on my PowerBook it does not load my .emacs init file. I tried renaming it to all of the supported names such as init.el and sticking it in the .emacs.d directory, but that didn’t fix it. The debug options haven’t done a thing, and I was able to verify there was nothing wrong with the file itself by opening it up and executing it.
The only way I’ve gotten it to execute properly is to run: emacs -u <username>. I have no idea why I need to do this, but it apparently forces something to work. I have aliased emacs to emacs -u <username> and will settle for that until I can actually figure out what is wrong.

iTunes SoundCheck

In iTunes I have a number of songs that are not adjusted to the correct volume for SoundCheck. I generally keep SoundCheck turned on–which especially helps with un-mastered music–but without them having the correct sound-level adjustment in the get-info window set, it doesn’t really do anything. I am not sure if when I imported these songs I canceled the levels adjustment– or they were in iTunes before 3.0, but now I need to re-evaluate the sound levels of the songs without re-importing them (so I don’t loose ratings and playcounts) Is it possible to automatically re-evaluate the sound levels for these songs?

404 Errors

It seems there are an inordinate amount of 404 errors on my webserver. Some of them are obviously from my old site–bots are still trying to access pages that have since disappeared–but there are also a large number of errors on pages that should be working fine. Is anyone having problems with 404 errors in the gallery section? If so, please post a comment!

What do you think?