My Fifteen Pageviews of Fame

I got a parody of Ponto de Encontro on Gildot.

(shame they dragged Paulo Querido into it too, but I’ve never commented on that and won’t start now…)

• 15GB of assorted junk archived: old backups, VMWare images and an astonishing amount of wallpapers (which had been estimated a few years ago as enough to give a different look to every computer at INESC and is now at least ten times larger)
• Took a few new photos. Nothing special, but there were interesting results that went straight to /dev/null.
• Watched half of High Fidelity. Hmm. Tagline: A comedy about fear of commitment, hating your job, falling in love and other pop favorites. Sounds like some films playing out in real life.
• Reached the (obvious) conclusion that my music library needs an intensive ID3 tagging session, because MadreDeus, Madredeus and madredeus are not necessarily the same thing (and the damn Unix taggers choke on some tags with accented characters). Better to pick up all the CDs again and stick them in iTunes, but 200-odd CDs is way too much work…
• Had a severe bout of Perl-itis and started seeing everything I had to do in terms of eval().
• Only didn’t wipe Red Hat from my disk due to lack of time. But if it survived the weekend, it must be worth keeping. Either way, tomorrow it’s XP and Cygwin with coffee.

106 lines of code in Perl, two hundred pages of assorted documentation (read) and a mountain of tests.

I miss doing budgets and Gantts - variety is good.

I keep to myself what I can’t write here.

Not content with the MuVo, the folks at Creative launched the Jukebox Zen, which is an old Jukebox repackaged to compete directly with the iPod (20GB, USB and FireWire, etc.).

I’ll stick with the MuVo and a SliMP3: