January 19, 2006
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First, I've updated the spring concerts schedule. Some new shows have been announced, some shows sold out, and I bought tickets for some shows. Check it out and let me know if you're interested in going to any of them.
Second, while my blog was down, two memes circulated in which I must participate.
From Joel, a meme where one posts a screenshot of his desktop in the hope that it will "say something about him." So, here are mine, desktop then laptop. What do they say?
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And I was tagged by Sarah Conway to participate in a Meme of fours that Betty also blogged.
4 Jobs I've held:
1. Trivia Host at Vanderbilt University. I came up with questions and hosted a team trivia competition every Thursday night at the Pub at Vandy.
2. Engineering Leadership Intern at National Instruments, Austin, TX.
3. Camp counselor / Park ranger / Lifeguard at Fun With Nature county day camp. Taught canoeing, fishing, camping skills, and put on a snake show.
4. Erstwhile web designer.
4 Movies I could watch over and over:
1. The Goonies
2. Pee Wee's Big Adventure
3. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
4 Places I've lived:
1. Tampa, FL. (Born and raised)
2. Nashville, TN. (Vanderbilt University, undergrad)
3. Austin, TX. (Internship--see above)
4. Washington, D.C.. (Georgetown University, law school)
4 TV Shows I love to watch:
1. Arrested Development
2. The Daily Show
3. The Simpsons
4. Family Guy
4 Websites I visit daily:
1. Boing Boing
2. The Onion
3. Passwird and Slick Deals
4. Ain't It Cool News
4 of my favorite foods:
1. Green olives
2. Fancy cheese (my favorite is Humboldt-Fog)
3. Anything cajun (etoufee, gumbo, jambalaya, blackened anything, etc.)
4. Sushi
4 Places I'd rather be:
1. The McGill lobby
2. In a movie theater
3. In the kitchen, cooking
4. In the garage at my parent's house, jamming with my brother (I play drums, he plays guitar)
4 Albums I can't live without:
These change pretty regularly, so I'm just gonna say what I've been listening to the most in the last two weeks or so.
1. The Rosebuds - Birds Make Good Neighbors
2. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
3. The Brunettes - Mars Loves Venus
4. Guided By Voices - Do The Collapse
4 People to tag:
1. Jeanette, when she gets her blog up
2. Karen
3. Mike
4. Joel
Posted at January 19, 2006 5:05 AM | Comments (11)
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May I recomend trillian as an IM client? It took me a long while to move to it, mainly because trillian 2 had a shitload of bugs and I didn't feel comfortable with any of the skins...trillian 3pro however has worked smoothly since I got it and the Hmmxp skin is exactly what I was looking for. Since having it I found many of its features (searchable and chartable automatic logging of every conversation, saving all links received in IMs for easy access later, showing the last 20 or so lines of the last conversation in the IM, etc)to be things I can't live without now...
Posted by: Adam at January 19, 2006 1:24 PM
Yeah, I know Trillian is good stuff. I haven't tried it for a few versions, after having problems with file transfers several years ago. I use DeadAIM (the only software I've paid for in the last 8 years or so), so I still get automatic logging, ad suppression, tabbed IMs if I want them (I don't), etc. Searchable logs would be good, and showing the last few lines of the last conversation seems useful (though possibly depressing--inanity always seems much more palatable in the moment). The saving of links sounds interesting, but I suppose it would depend on the interface. Anyway, thanks for the tip. I'll check it out.
Posted by: David Barzelay at January 19, 2006 1:30 PM
The link grabber is a collapsable window right above the buddy list...pretty simple and useful...heres a picture in keeping with the theme of desktop shots
Posted by: Adam at January 19, 2006 4:04 PM
http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/9387/noname3ie.jpg
Posted by: Adam at January 19, 2006 4:06 PM
Adam was looking at homosexuals in a window! I saw it! Gay!
Posted by: David Barzelay at January 19, 2006 4:28 PM
fine, don't tag me. I'm going to do it anyways.
Posted by: Liz at January 19, 2006 6:49 PM
Well, what I think your desktop basically says about you is that yo--oh my God, is that Winamp? Are you really using WINAMP? What fucking century is this? Even if you're not a part of the iTunes craze, there have got to be dozens of better programs for playing music than Winamp, which has sucked since 3.0.
But what hasn't sucked since going 3.0 is Trillian, up to which I, too, must give two thumbs. Like you, I'd tried previous versions and was not pleased, but this latest one seems to really have its shit together.
Posted by: Joel at January 19, 2006 10:45 PM
Winamp 3.0 did suck, Joel, you're right. And then instead of releasing a 4.0, they did a major overhaul and released 5.0. Winamp 5.0 makes the whole stupid Music Library thing optional. I never even installed the music library. 5.0 is just like Winamp 2.5, but more stable, better skins, and the ability to play all sorts of video files as well. You're obviously out of the loop. I would never use iTunes especially, which ignores filenames and instead displays and sorts according to metadata, which is incorrect half the time.
So, besides iTunes, what other players are there that are stable, easy to use, and play every kind of music and video?
Posted by: David Barzelay at January 20, 2006 2:18 PM
Well, if one has an iPod, one has fewer options regarding a media player. Still, I just gave up on Winamp entirely back in the day, and never looked back. I'm not sure what I used between Winamp, which I gave up on soon after 3.0, and iTunes, which I started using senior year, but it wasn't good enough to hold my attention.
Posted by: Joel at January 22, 2006 10:29 PM
If you use a mass tagging application and take the time to go through and tag each and every album I think iTunes works wonderful. Since I have a habit of being a fanatic when it comes to tagging my music I never have a problem with iTunes labeling file incorrectly.
I use Tag'N'Rename to handle my mass tagging. Since it can connect to the freedb database as well as all three amazon databases, tagging albums is really, really easy. I always have the rare occasion in which I have to type up the ID3, but it's usually worth it.
You check out Picasa yet, David? It's Google's simple picture editor that comes with the google pack (or can be downloaded separately) and does a very nice job of cataloging pictures. Options to password protect specific pictures and folders are there as well. Check it out.
picture of desktop to keep this ball afloat:
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Posted by: Mark at January 23, 2006 8:42 PM
I'm very meticulous when it comes to file names, but I only started being meticulous about metadata two years ago or so. Which means that I have 1500 albums or so whose metadata may be all fucked up. Anyway, I name every file:
Artist - ## - Song Title.mp3
And yeah, Picasa is fucking amazing. I've been using it for many moons. It's astounding how good all the Google software so far has been. It's like they look around for the cream of the crop when it comes to small software apps, and then when they find something really super, they just buy the company that makes it, improve it even more, re-brand it, then release.
Posted by: David Barzelay at January 23, 2006 9:24 PM
