The Blog that Noone Reads

Whoever is responsible for this is mean. And also, damn funny.

It really bothers me how some of the podcasts I listen to organize their ID3 data. It would be really awesome if everyone could adhere to a specific standard. Here is my proposal:

Artist: Artist’s Name
Album: Name of Show
Track Name: Name and/or Date of Episode
Track Number: Episode/Issue Number
Disc Number: Season/Volume if applicable
Genre: Podcast or at least use the word “Podcast” in there.

This would make it so much easier to find the show/episode in iTunes, MusicMatch, on an iPod, or (probably) any other player.

Here’s a couple examples:
Artist: Adam Curry
Album: Daily Source Code
Track Name: 2004-10-11: GWB Singers
Track Number: 10 (I don’t know the real episode number here)
Disc Number: 1
Genre: Podcast

This would make it so much easier to find in a large music library/make smart playlists. Maybe someone out there has a better scheme than what I’ve suggested. I’d love to hear it. I would really be happy with anything as long as people could agree on it. As things stand, I have to manually edit the tags of every track I get so it doesn’t get lost in my library.

I got me the premium flickr account a couple days ago. It’s pretty sweet. Last night I put my computer to work uploading most of my pictures.

Flickr gives me 1gig of uploads per month and no storage limit. This will make it much easier to put at least one image in all of my posts from now on.

Flickr also offers a free version of their service, which is also quite good. It’s basically the same thing with a 10MB upload limit per month, which isnt bad if you just wanna drop some shots in your blog.

They also have RSS and Atom feeds, though they do not contain any formatting stuffs. Imma have to talk to them about that.

quehaggerschnitz: “Yeah, Ed?”
TunaMan52: what?
quehaggerschnitz: “See Ed, I just can’t come into work today.”
quehaggerschnitz: “Why not Ben?”
quehaggerschnitz: “Oh man…it’s this Acid Reflux Disease that I got”
quehaggerschnitz: “Oh wow…well…do you think you could come in and pretend to work?”
quehaggerschnitz: “Yeah I could do that?”
quehaggerschnitz: I wanna see her try to sing and start spewing acid

Popular teeny-bopper “singer”, Ashlee Simpson, was caught lip-syncing on SNL this past weekend when the voice track was played for a different song than the band was playing.

All I can say about this is god bless live TV. The little hoedown she did when the track came on and here mic was still at her side was the most entertaining thing she’ll ever be a part of.

Oh yeah! The best part is, her manager blames acid reflux disease (heartburn) and says it was her first time lip-syncing a track ever. You believe that? I sure as hell do not. It’s only a matter of time before her sister is exposed too. Mua-ha-ha!

I’m at the Applestore right now. I’m going to have dinner with my mom in a few minutes, but she’s not here yet. So I’m waiting in the Apple Store. There is so much cool stuff to play with in here.

And what does Kristen think of her new laptop?…

She got it and it’s beautiful. I couldn’t believe it when she decided to go to sleep an not even open the box until the next morning. But we played with it all sunday. I’m so jealous.

I hope you love your new toy, baby.

Over the weekend, I got this email: (abridged)

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Dear David,

Over the last five years, we’ve grown the Netflix community to over 2.2 million satisfied members. …

… pleased to inform you that we’re lowering the price of your Netflix 3-at-a-time program from $21.99 per month to 17.99 per month.

… So please sit back, relax and enjoy your movies!

-Your Friends at Netflix

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Awesome! I would have gladly gone on paying my $22 for the service. You reallly have to use netflix to really appreciate how awesome it really is. There are other companies offering, basically, the same service - namely Walmart and Blockbuster. They basically do the same thing and cost the same amount of money per month, but they are not created equal.

The netflix website application is most skillfully crafted. Everything is so well designed, most users won’t even notice the incredible features that are in there as they’re so seemless. You have the option of rating movies with one through five stars everywhere the movie shows up. You dont have to go to a special page, you dont even have to suffer a page reload. You just click on the start that you want to rate it with and they will turn yellow, indicating your rating.

The stars aren’t just for your reference though. Netflix will generate guess ratings (shown as red stars) for movies you havent rated. The service will even offer recommendations for movies that you will probably like based on your ratings as compared to the ratings of the other 2.2 million users. These ratings end up being incredibly accurate. I’ve rented, and loved, movies that I wouldn’t ever have watched had it not been for those ratings. Lately, it seems Netflix knows more about what I am going to like than I do.

One thing that really excites me is, they’re constantly looking to make the site better. They recently added an RSS module to the site. I now have my queue synced to my iPod. I can just pull open the notes section on there and see what I can expect in the mail in the next couple days.

Short story long:
Netflix is the best. At $17.99 you have no choice but to give in and subscribe. You will not be dissapointed.