Okay folks..I know I said I was abandoing TitleTunes…and I did. But I couldn’t drop it. Someone suggested I make it a toolbar, and I did. It’s in “testing” right now, but I hope to have a 1.0 version out sometime this weekend. Here’s a sneak peek…

That’s in my taskbar…Already it’s of date. Show/Hide now switches text depending on the state of iTunes. So it just says “Show iTunes” if iTunes is hidden.

Once again, written in vb.net with iTunes Windows SDK. Thanks Apple.
Source won’t be available right now., but may be in the future. I’m all open for suggestions though. If there’s something you’d like to see in the toolbar, let me know, I’ll see what I can do.

I want to buy Grand Royal Records..

It’s distressing to me for some reason that Johnny Cash is dead. Perhaps it’s because I discovered him rather late in my musical experience and can’t get enough. The world is a darker place without Johnny Cash.

I was sad to hear that Wesley Willis has passed on.

Rock over London Rock on Chicago

Okay, came acorss this via Blogdex and cheesebikini?. Flash mobbing. Via email a large group of people are contacted to assemble (seemingly spontaneously) at a location only to dissipate 10 minutes later.

It’s a brilliant idea and I think classifies as performance art. I think it could also be a useful means of protest if the crowd is large enough. Reagardless, it looks like fun and should be done everywhere.

I believe there’s a phrase for this…poetic terrorism or something…someone who read that book should remind me.

No, I don’t even remember the books name.

So I was working in the yard today and came across these wonderful creatures. The first is a Spinybacked Orbweaver…

The other is some big locust thing…

I had to create a new category so that I could expound on the virutes of nothing in particular. I just came across a few blogging sites recently and thought it was interesting how it has developed into this odd subculture of pseudo intellegentsia with its own subcultures inside. I don’t personally take too much stock of anything I read in a blog. In fact, to be honest there aren’t many blogs I look at regularly. I don’t expect people to read mine either. I created mine more as a means of experimentation with technology and an online journal. I read others to find interesting links.

What I find remarkable is how it’s driving technology though. There are rumors that Google is going to split blogs out from it’s index because they are skewing the results too much.

Then there are all the projects that exist around blogs, as well as the changes in the ways that content is managed.

There are places like and and the blogging ecosystem project. This is baffling to me. All this just goes to prove how right Google is in their methodolgy of indexing. Everything depends on how you are linked to, and who you are linked from.

Are we heading for a societal subculture where you ask, “Who links ya baby?” Okay, that’s a horrible pun, but remember it wasn’t long ago where everything was about hits….then it was eyeballs (i.e. uniques users)….now it seems that the real question is how many places link to you. Of course, link farms skew this, and I personally think all the stats would change from blog links if you ignored all the “blogs I read” links and stuck with just those links that got posted in an entry…

Okay. I’m done babbling. You may continue about your normal daily activities.