February, 24, 2001 archives

i wish my short-term memory weren't crap. i can't even begin the count the number of times i've stood in the shower not able to remember if i've washed my hair already or not, or the number of times i've looked at the bottle of multivitamins on my desk wondering if i already took one this morning. (nothing terrible will happen in repetition in either case, except i'll have even cleaner hair and 200% of my recommended daily allowance of pantothenic acid.)

its probably related to that part of my brain that never seems to want to pick the right key for a door on the first try. (and i only carry four keys!)

on the main trainedmonkey page, you can now see what i'm currently listening to in the right-hand column, and even buy the album from cdnow, thus giving me valuable affiliate kickbacks that i can use to buy more music.

after losing my big hard drive and its ~4 gigs of mp3s, i've started reencoding all of the albums i own again (up to 20 albums and 1.2 gigs again already). i also lost my heavily hacked version of jwz's gronk, so i ended up implementing something similar that builds a list of my mp3 files (using cddb info where it can, or from the id3 tags), but has no web interface for the playlist since i never used it, anyway. maybe later.

i'd hook this up to ourfavoritesongs.com, but there doesn't seem to be any useful documentation on the interface for doing that.

i'd also use musicbrainz, but there's no perl interface and i'm too lazy to build one.

(and yes, i really do own and enjoy albums by tito puente, jewel, eminem, the dirty dozen brass band, bobby mcferrin, blue öyster cult, and the dixie chicks. deal.)