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Ladles and jellyspoons, the iTunes upload is over.  Whilst I’m sure there are plenty out there who have a gazzilion more ripped CDs and MP3s on their iPods, I am quite happy to have finished my initial ripping session.  My iPod is now one short of eleven hundred songs which, iTunes tells me, is equivalent to a trio of days listening or more than four of your gigglingbytes.  Meanwhile, a post over at geekgrrl provided a heads up to weatherfox, a weather info extension for Firefox.

That’s your lot for now – I’m off to play with the traffic whilst we’re head for a Williams Syndrome family event on the other side of town.

This morning’s Sunday morning surf introduced me to the delights of Micahel Chu’s Cooking For Engineers, a recipe blog with a different way of presenting recipes. Rather than me explain it, pop over and have a look – there are some lovely looking recipes to drools over, whether you are techical or not.

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A public service announcement for the uninitiated iTunes user (i.e. new iPod owners like me). If your PC* refuses to rip/inport more than one CD in a row, don’t waste hours trying everything under the sun, simply run ‘msconfig’ from Run and then uncheck the “Shwicon2k” item from the list in the Startup tab in the System Configuration Utility window. For a step by step guide to doing this, check out the iTunes Only First Audio CD Is Recognized page.

*Like my top end multimedia HP Pavillion. Ironically (but not in the corrupted Alanis Morrisette way) , Apple use the exact same model in the above picture which features on their iTunes webpage and which, according to a few forums is particularly susceptible.

Tax free shopping for SWMBO and sprogs

• Chocolates
• Mini Dime bars
• Bags and bags of Haribo
• Gouda cheese with cumin
• Macadamia nuts
• Cashews

Tax free shopping for self

• iPod

Seems fair to me.  So why am I getting the skunk eye?  I mean the kids have shoes on their feet, clothes on their backs and food in their stomachs, don’t they?

I have spent the last two evenings ripping my CD collection into iTunes ahead of a possible iPod purchase when I fly to the Netherlands tomorrow. Strange then, that whilst I am doing so I should click onto Cory Doctorow’s Boing Boing post concerning Should I Rip This? v1.0.

The folks over on the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup compile a list each year of the freeware programs that they have voted as the best of the best.  The result is a website that serves as both recognition of the author’s efforts and a handy one stop shop for some truly excellent apps.

via Ian.

…since Google popped onto the scene. Happy Birthday Google!

The Google/Blogger relationship just got a whole lot more incestuous. Jonathan Hernandez’s GPL app Gallina means that Gmail can now be your blog posting interface as well as your email client.

Lambertus J. F. (Bert) Koster

1959 – In Memoriam – 2004

The Tour of Britain rolled to a conclusion in London today, with some of the world’s top professionals competing in the 45 mile Stage 5 race around the streets of Westminster. The 30 degree heat did not deter the large crowds who lined the barriers of the 1 mile loop, though the free water handed out from vendor trikes proved very popular.

The inclusion of London’s cycle-mounted cops in the warm up parade lap made an interesting addition before the main business of the day got underway. Sadly, as I was at the last corner 400 metres from the finish and, at the time of writing, the Tour of Britain website is down, I am unable to report who won.