James just told me about the most bitchin application EVER. Its call MusicBrainz Tagger. For all those people with large MP3 collections and not all of them named or tagged properly. It scans each track and generates an acoustic fingerprint for each track then compares it to an online database and then retrives all ID3 information. Its great. But alas only for Windoze. I knew there was a reason I kept my Windoze boxes around.
I’m still beat after the 21 hour day yesterday. And I have to get up at 5 again tomorrow to drive to Van Nuys and migrate the site up there. Now although I have not been getting paid for the OT that I have been working, it looks like my company might decide to pay me after all. They can read the daily status reports and see that the hours that I have been working are giving them a good rep with the customer. I wouldn’t mind seeing a nice fat check at the end of this month, ahhhhhhhh Canon Digital Rebel SLR.
Went down to Long Beach today to troubleshoot a server, and then went Seal Beach for lunch at this great little hole in the wall joint The Sea Side Grill. It had great hot wings, and nice size beers (didn’t have one, but next time…..), plus on the same street there are 3 Irish pubs and some assorted other pubs and restraunts. I really wouldn’t mind living down in that area if only I could be instantly teleported to work in the mornings. It would be 40+ minutes in the morning with no traffic, and then who knows how long in the evening. I just don’t think I could take being in the car that long.
I booked our stay in Hawaii today. I can’t wait to spend 7 days in Maui on the beach. Just lay my fat ass under an umbrella and sleep all day (I wish). I spent all but 925 of my Marriott points on the hotel room. But we don’t have to pay a dime for our stay. But airfare and car rental are another story, but I suppose that is one good thing about living in LA, cheap airfare to Hawaii.
I think its about time that I buy an Apple desktop. With the new 2.4 GHz G5s coming out soon I will probably wait but I really want a machine that I can work and play on. Eventhough most of the games that I like now will play on my Powerbook, SimCity 4 runs like a dog. And with rumors that Doom3 and Half Life 2 will be released at the same time for both systmes I want a machine that will handle the load.
I was looking at firewire RAID enclosures the other day. They are so damn expensive. I was pondering purchasing a 1394b RAID setup so I can boot from it and thus take advantage of the 100MB/s throuput offered by the faster firewire standard. I was thinking that a 7200RPM drive in a 1394b enclosure would be signifcantly faster then the hard drive in my laptop. I’m just dreaming though.
I really didn’t want to be at work today, it was about 85 out today, and would have been a perfect day to go and sit at the beach all day long. Maybe next month when my flex schedule starts…………. I can only hope……..