Archive for November, 2005

Going through Scoble’s blog, CTRL+Q’ing the stuff that’s duped or isn’t so interesting I stumbled upon blogger comedy gold.

The brothers in RSS advocacy aren’t in sync anymore. Scoble has unsubscribed from Pirillo.

Back about 8 months ago in March I talked to Chris about the lack of full text feeds on his blog. He did mention looking into getting them turned on. At the time though he also suggested I do the incredible and actually download the webpage (via Fetchlinks for NewsGator).

What the!? Combine this with all the dead blogs. And the dead readers.

Maybe the blubble has burst, dead blogs, dead readers, nothing radically new, major RSS advocates not even using RSS to the fullest. Tsk tsk… What is going on in the world?

I really don’t understand this one. One of the top ten search queries that people use to find my blog is “how to self induce vomiting” (the highest by about three times as many hits in case you’re curious is “outlook not responding”). It all started because of this blog entry I posted on my birthday last year. I was sick at the time and was trying to clear up the phlegm in my throat not trying to actually make myself throw up.

Please could someone tell me why this is being searched for? May I suggest searching something else?

msn | google – eating disorders
msn | google – anorexia nervosa
msn | google – bulimia nervosa
msn | google – binge eating

Go to WebMD. Search WebMD for help about eating disorders.

See your doctor! Please do something, it’s not healthy.

Finally, good luck, I hope that if you suffer from an eating disorder you’ll be able to get help.

In my last post about FLAC I talked about how to convert FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) using Adobe Audition. That works just fine. But what I wanted was to not have to run the individual files through Windows Media Player manually entering in data. So this time around we’ll do it much more fluidly.

Basically what we do is take our copy of Nero then download and install the plugin for FLAC. Default location for plugins being C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\AudioPlugins.

At this point go through the normal Audio CD creation process using Nero. If the FLAC comes with a CUE file, just drap and drop the CUE file. If not, hopefully the tracks will be numbered, just drag and drop those.

Burn the project using the Image Recorder setting. Save the NRG file somewhere. Then mount the file using Nero ImageDrive. Once this is done open up Windows Media Player and enjoy. You should find that by going to the Rip pane WMP automatically finds all the track information with album art. Hug the wonderful code behind this one that analyzes things for you. Then rip to WMA VBR or MP3 and not have to worry about the metadata.

I should also mention that if you’re a fan of the SHN (Shorten) codec you can download this plugin. Then just convert the files in the same way.

If you’re a fan of WMA and the way WMP manages your media as I am this is probably the easiest solution for making sure WMIS (Windows Media Information Services) gets things right.

At long last, since I heard the bloody song in the UK I’ve finally realized what the Sugababes “Push The Button” reminded me of. Why yes, it’s “the most dynamic female soul singer in the history of the music”, Tina Turner’s ”The Best“. It seems blatantly obviously now that I’ve got both and merged them together. But when you don’t have any words pop in your head at the time it’s quite difficult to remember anything and use Google to help. Oddly it was playing Push The Button and somehow remembering a cruise line advert that used The Best the suddenly triggered the connection. Not being a huge fan of either of them it’s just nice to finally put this one to rest. I just can’t stand when I can’t place a connection when I’m 100% possitive there is one.

To relieve anyone else that swore Push The Button reminded them of something, here’s a WMA to confirm things for you.

Then 106,435 shares were sold and I’m still waiting and seeing if I should sell my 100 shares. I want $28.50 now, fingers are crossed.