Wed, 27 Apr 2005
Bund dinner Two Thousand and Five // at 23:00
Off to the wilds of Northcote, up over the river, into the wilderness
to the norht of the Eastern freeway. Searching... searching... for
250 High Street and the Wild Yak café.
A banquet for 10, good food, good company, good conversation.
The Age — just plain WRONG! // at 19:00
The Age newspaper has excelled themselves. In an article about Apple opening an iTunes store in Australia, they've gone and stated that:
iTunes is the only site where iPod users can legally download songs.
I guess they haven't noticed the thousands of songs that are legally available at thousands of legitimate websites because the legal copyright holders has put them there. Just because I can't pay Apple for music, doesn't mean that it's illegal to pick up Teenage Fanclub's eight songs, for example!
...But still they won't touch the thorny issue that in Australia I can't copy music that I bought on CD, LP or Cassette Tape music onto my iPod for my listening. OK, so that is illegal, but that isn't the topic that they're addressing!
Tags // at 18:00
Not sure what I think of tags. I think they're a poor mans meta-data, for those people to lazy to properly annotate things, or those developers too lazy to develop decent interfaces to allow proper annotation. I've already had a run-in with the multiple possibilities of Victoria, for example. Today I tagged a fotothing foto that had contained a lion, then looked for other lions. I got told that similar tags included dandelion, sealion, and pavilion. Ok, I'll accept the first two, but the third made me nearly splutter my coffee out my nose.
Numbers // at 12:00
How many interesting numbers are there out there that people know and remember? Doing my lunch-time CD importing, and listening to a bit of music, there in the background of Killing Joke's Mathematics of Chaos is a female voice repeating over and over, “875 020 079”.... What does it mean? As always, google is your friend. A nerdly star-trek reference. Oh well.
And a strange coincidence. Ministry's Psalm 69 was the last CD I read in to be imported into my iPod. Then I plugged in the iPod and found there were 69 songs to be imported.
Why can I remember numbers and not names?
