This is kinda fun - it creates an audio signature of songs in your music library which gives an idea of the sort of stuff you’re into. It works on Mac and Windows, you just need to have iTunes and a decent-sized library. I created one based on my highest rated tracks… and it sounds like this.

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So, today I could do ironing, or I could work on my old TV show download script to get the latest episodes of Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Veronica Mars and Smallville automatically without Crumpet having to ask me all the time. No contest, it’s the script.

The old BTefnet site doesn’t exist anymore, but fortunately there are plenty of torrent sites with RSS feeds that I can download and parse. I just have to remember how to write Perl…
update: Taking longer than I expected, the RSS feed I’ve chosen is a bit of a dog’s breakfast and doesn’t have a clean layout that I can parse easily. The script removes all the apparently random line breaks in the feed and cleanly splits all the shows into an array. Now all I have to do is search the array for the show names I want. Easy.

Thanks Sheol for the link.

This blog may or may not be working properly again. Try and break it for me, could you?

Most. Adorable. Mutant. EVER.

Well played, Clerks. Well played.

This site gives random panels from Garfield cartoons. Keep hitting refresh, or lock panels until you get something to your liking.

Such as:

Every time, and I mean every time, that I go through all the bullshit and hassle of dealing with Centrelink, I get offered a job just as I finally finish all the paperwork.

Yup. Just happened again. More info tomorrow after I speak to the recruitment folk!

I’m back from Centrelink - I spent 3 hours sitting there getting more and more frustrated as they run late, tell me that the extra forms I took home for Crumpet to fill out weren’t needed after all, and then tell me that their system has buggered up and they need to re-enter all the information from my phone interview.

Seriously, the place needs a grenade.

What a time to be unemployed. The new PowerBook… erm, I mean, MacBook Pro has been announced, with a 4x speed increase over the old G4 processor, a chunky Radeon x1600 GPU, a magnetic power adapter cable (that is so cool) and a built-in iSight camera.

The streaming keynote is here.