Archive for September, 2008

Internet Meme Timeline

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Click on through to the original site for best effect.

Not sure what’s going on with the random photos, but it’s a cool visualization of “history”. And it helpfully catches me up on the many things I’ve missed.

What’s wrong with this picture?

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Wonder how those rim brakes are working out on a disc only rim…

iTunes is teh suck

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Why does it show a white square instead of the embedded artwork?

Why doesn’t iTunes use an image in the directory with the mp3 files? Every other player on the planet does.

Why does the search function not search in the file name? You can’t just add the mp3 download from “This American Life”, or it will get lost in the 20,000 other tracks you have.
I know the file name, but search doesn’t work. Before tagging:

After using Explorer to tag the file:

Hooray!

Why can’t i remove something from the ipod directly from it’s playlist? I have 1,000 songs on the iPod. It’s a PITA to find a specific track in a list of 1,000 songs, but easy in the 10 track playlist. But can I remove it from the iPod from there? Oh no, you have find it in the 1,000 songs.

Why does the application pop up on top of everything else when I insert a CD or the iPod? That’s just plain annoying and distracting.

If you can’t buy it from the iTunes store it doesn’t exist? Oh yes, I definitely want to buy this exact same song song a second time:

Oh, and it’s not much of a genius either. It thinks these songs would sound great alongside the Tool and NIN in my collection? Yep, Tool listeners all dig on Jason Mraz and Katy Perry.

I guess that goes along with “if it doesn’t exist for sale in the iStore it doesn’t exist” thing.

And why is it so goddamn slow?

The Angry Scotsman

Friday, September 12th, 2008

For a genius, it thinks pretty slowly

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

It’s been at it for an hour, using an awful lot of CPU:

I wonder if it’ll be worth it…