February, 25, 2001 archives

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.)

bye bye etoys. wow.

just to play around with stock picks without actually risking any money, i've started a fake portfolio on the motley fool. maybe eventually i'll whip something up that will let me put it here and have a 'portfolio performance' thing on my page.

the first 'investment' is apple, which i mentioned the other day. in fact, i just went ahead and assumed i bought 50 shares of apple at feb 22's closing price (18.81).

it's pretty disappointing there's no isbn-like code for music cds. or at least not something it looks like retailers like cdnow and amazon both recognize. (more proof that the music labels are dumb.)