Catching Up
We had a great trip down to Atlanta to spend the Thanksgiving weekend with my folks and some of our relatives. It was a great three days. We played catch-up at home yesterday and I'm doing the same thing at work today. I figured I should post some stuff here since I've been remiss.
Traveling by highway in this country is one of the best ways to experience the freedoms we have. I'm grateful to be an American. But I'm not proud of President Bush's visit to Iraq on Thanksgiving day. I know it was a huge morale boost for the troops over there, as well it should be, but I can't help but think that besides that, it was all about PR back here. According to news reports, he spent 2.5 hours on the ground and didn't get outside of the heavily-controlled area of the Baghdad Airport. I don't want to see our president (whomever he or she is) put in harm's way, but I also don't want him or her to be seen as a coward.
I'm slowly adding more music to WCYG; I like being able to share my musical tastes in this sort of interactive fashion. Doing this is increasing my appreciation of Foobar2000, but it's also prompting me to ask for implementation of certain features. Stuff I'm thinking would be nice includes parameters controlling the selection of random songs, such as not playing a certain artist twice in a row or only every x songs. I'll have to go over to the FB2K forums and see if anyone's mentioned wanting that.
I'm having a lot of fun setting up Gallery; what a great piece of software. Highly recommended. I found out about it from Don.
I'm thinking of expanding the Enjoying section into its own page that includes the history of what I've listed there, as well as any other media recommendations I'd like to share. What do you guys think?
I noticed a few comment spams when I got back from our trip and I deleted them. I guess it's time to install MT-Blacklist!
Update: It took me all of 10 minutes to install MT-Blacklist. Thanks to Jay Allen for the tool. Also, it looks like foo_shuffle is what I'm looking for to better control FB2K's shuffle mode. It looks cool.