I feel so embarassed for instructors when they forward hoax e-mails to the entire school without checking their validity first. It really makes you look foolish, especially when you teach computer specific classes.
To view current and past urban legends/hoaxes, go to Snopes.com. Its hilarious.
My friend and I were discussing mp3 & ID3 tags last night when he told me how dissapointed he was in Winamp 3, and how ID3 tags don’t currently have a “mood” category. Its a great idea, but highly personal. It occurred to me later that each song could have a color, which does a decent job of reflecting mood, but once again is highly personal. Also, its not that accesible to blind/colorblind people. Still..
Besides the obvious matches for Indigo/Mood Indigo, there are colors for just about any song. I’m not sure how you’d represent these, (hex code?) but some probably defy hues. Any you can think of?
Last night I finally got iTunes to accept my entire mp3 library. In the past it would crash, and once when trying to catalog it, most of the collection got moved to the trash. Naturally I was hesitant to do it again.
There were two reasons I took the risk: iTunes 3’s smart playlists and Doug Adam’s iTunes Library Manager applescript. Smart playlists let you create playlists that play the least heard tracks in your library, or the top 25 rated, etc. I was nearly late for work this morning because I was so involved in listening to and rating music I didn’t notice the time.
The iTunes Library Manager lets you create and manage multiple library files. This is great because its somewhat annoying to have one huge library when all you really want is the Electronic, or Hip-hop. I know, just use those smart playlists, but still, its nice.
Note to Self: Don’t listen to Rage Against the Machine while working on the Helpdesk. Its difficult to change between moods…
Sorry for the outage. I was playing a game that crashes after every level, and every time I restart I get a new IP address, and I forgot to re-map the ports at my router. I promise I did it every other time.
Today I went to work at 6AM so we could upgrade our Spot server to Solaris 8, move it to a different server room, and add a 330GB storage array. Its gone fairly well so far, but we’re having trouble moving the WebCT partition to its own RAID5 unit. Now I want to go home, but can’t until i make sure WebCT works again.
In other news, I may finally be able to install Solaris for x86 onto an old PC at work.
I set up the index page for the rooftop brew site with Moveable Type for easy updates and news. It was more difficult to configure than Greymatter, but I couldn’t install a second copy of GM onto the same server using different pages.
Now lets see if I can handle this blog, the rooftop brew blog, and Satellite Misters. I’m not too concerned, since its more of a brew journal and site news than a personal (not really) journal.
I’ve updated the Rooftop Brew page. I rebranded and updated an old school project for dreamweaver that was once called Homebrew U. Looks like someone else is using the name, so I’ll concede. Anyway, the link at the top “homebrew” and the Rooftop Brew link on the side will both work. Let me know if something is sorely missing. I plan on working on it more eventually.
Oh, and the links section has been updated some. Turns out BB Edit Lite will let me save files with Unix line breaks, so when I’m using Vi, I don’t get those damn ^M things everywhere.
An instructor stopped by because he wasn’t happy with his Google results. The way his name came up in Google paired his name with someone else’s quote, which made him look inept. Sure that’s annoying, but what am I supposed to do about it? I’m still trying for name supremacy myself.
Instead of saying no, I submitted the page for re-indexing and put a no-snippet meta tag on the offending page.
According to my server logs, a search bot has been giving me negative karma votes. According to grep, its given me 40 negative votes since September. No wonder I get bad karma votes for seemingly benign posts. Guess I’ll have to set up a robots.txt file.
209.249.67.113 – – [20/Nov/2002:17:40:01 -0800] “vote=negative&entry=00000110 HTTP/1.1” 200 3609 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 compatible ZyBorg/1.0 (wn.zyborg@looksmart.net; http://www.WISEnutbot.com)