First Do No Harm, Second Tell No Lies: 2005/01

AudioOn a suggestion from Keif I started an Audioscrobbler account. It seems to be an interesting way to get marketing information about what music is being played, though the market that will be using it is quite small - technically literate musically minded people with fair amounts of disposable income. Precisely who a lot of marketers want to get money from.

But then I know very little of advertising and marketing. My brother would have more of an idea but I doubt he'd care at the moment.

The server is currently running quite a bit behind the submissions...( as I type over 600,000 submissions queued, 78,000 processed in the last hour). Naturally my stats are not available yet.

This week I'm studying "Software Agents". Perhaps unsurprisingly, related to this is V-Girl. Sheesh.

Humour
One bit of text I found ages ago (it has a date of 17 Aug 96) and often makes me smile is:

"My ingenious neighbor has a rather weird sense of humor. This summer he put up a birdhouse and birdbath in his yard and busily rigged up some mysterious wiring. Now, whenever a bird gets into the birdbath, a telephone rings in the birdhouse."

Most likely not true, but once I get a back yard I think I'd make it happen.

LifespanThanks to Jane I found out I'm going to live to 72.

I am going to die at 72. When are you? Click here to find out!

And my brother seemed to have dropped off the map until I caught up with his blog. Doesn't seemt o have an RSS feed though. Odd.

Most days I wonder if I should ring my father. Well at least once a week. To be honest, he doesn't seem to take any interest in my life and any now mostly seems to be related to his supposed will, which he told me last year he hadn't made. After telling me he would write me out of it if I didn't keep in touch.

Along with that I'm generally feeling confused and unsure of what I want to do in my life - sometimes just being at home seems to be too little - perhaps I had larger ideas when I was a kid from too much science fiction. Now I'm too old to be a professional pilot much less astronaut. I guess I'm going though the stage where I figure out what makes me happy. I gather a lot of people do this somewhat earlier in life. Though others don't.

Well, this turned out to be much longer than I thought. I was only just going to do the when I die thing and it turned into a ramble.

I want some toast. Off to make some.

Work, work ,work
Thoughts

After briefly trying Paul's suggestion I've gone back to Blogs in hand. It works for me.

Work is currently looking at relocating to somewhere west of Reading. The natives are very restless.

For this week and last I have been studying Grid computing and Peer-to-peer networking. Not so useful, perhaps, in my work but that's not the point.

Another dream I had recently left me only knowing a number: 37242.

Music Meme

WhatÂ¿s the total size of music files on your computer?
2Gb

What is the last CD you bought?
For me, a compilation, Spike Jones & His City Slickers
or possibly Complete Madness

What is the last song you listened to before you read this post?
Take It or Leave It by Madness

Name four songs that you listen to a lot or that mean a lot to you.
Brown Eyed Girl
Rescue me by Fontella Bass
House of fun by Madness
A little less conversation (Elvis vs JXL)

The last one changes day by day

Which three people are you passing the baton on to and why?
I can't yet as I don't know enough people with blogs that wouldn't have already done this.