I love the Bullsh*t show. It’s being aired on FX on this side of the pond. The episode at the moment is all about the obsession of having ‘the best’. Well, they’re doing the restaurant thing – everything on the table is made from really cheap ingredients, but is presented really well, with a great waiter feeding the best lines of BS to the customers. Surprise, surprise, nobody caught on to the fact that it was a scam until they were told. I’m reminded of the brother in law. I wonder if he would have been caught by this?
Now we have the environmental panic folks. I seem to remember Mr. Moore on the radio show a while back.
My super ex-girlfriend
Sad to say, I think I wrote the plot. I won’t claim to have written the script.
Funny.
Predictable.
Shame.
My super ex girlfriend IMDB link
baals, it’s funny
I’m watching episode 4 of Stargate season 10. I laugh primarily because of the premise of the issue – there are many, many clones of Baal and, well, it’s just funny to have all those clones wandering around like ‘revenge of paranoia’. hell, at least we only have 5 clones in Paranoia.
Still laughing at the baals.
Baals
stagolicious
Forgive the poor speling and the poor grammar. Last night was young dermot’s stag party. We spent the afternoon shooting things in Wicklow. I think the reverend should have been there, he would have probably beaten us all (embarassing, sonsidering that we are a bunch of computer gaming first person fools.
ID3 tag type was the issue with Media Player 11
When I converted the id3 tags to v2.3 all the album art went to the correct format. Interesting issue that. By noting it here I hope that it will help someone else. iTunes has been great for this as it can convert between various tag types (from v1.1 through). I’ve shoved my collection to version 2.3 tags, and it seems to have solved the problem with the screwed up album art.
Let’s see, a bulk change of many thousands of tracks should take all night.
Windows media player 11 – album art
Interesting thing that Windows Media Player 11 does to the artwork on albums you possess is to place them in a cache directory under %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player\Art Cache\LocalMLS. Each one is names after a guid, which is probably generated for each track in the collection.
I’m just wondering how difficult it would have been to use a hash of the image data as it’s file name, and storing the hash in the media library instead of the pointer to the guid. This way when you have duplicate images (typically 10 per album), they are not replicated into the cache of images.
The other complaint is that I’ve got a bunch of black album art images. It’s completely odd, as they seem to be completely ok inside in the file – other tools have no difficulty in examining them, and show correct icons. Maybe I should feed this back to them – after all it’s a beta of media player 11.
bye bye barry
Here I am listening to David Bowie; hoping to hear from Finbarr ‘Barry’ O’Flynn, but knowing that nothing we play willl ever amount to listening him back.
Post 4th
We just had our fourth of july burn some food and enjoy ourselves thing. Burned animal with added spices. Just the thing on a medium-warm day like ours. Then there was the mandatory sing at the flag thing by the kids. I got one shot of Athena, but that was the extent of it.
google earth needs a reboot?
What? you’re just some sloppy application.
Communication is key to a successful relationship…
When buying something from the internet I appreciate being informed of things during the process. When ordering something that requires the dispatching of a physical item, then you need to ensure that the customer can safely determine what the state of their order is at any point.
There are two normal mechanisms to support this. The first is an order status page. This page contains information about the state of the order. For example, when a company accepts the order it is flagged as ‘Accepted’. Once someone is taking the item and putting it into a box it should be placed in the ‘Processing’ state. When it has been given to the delivery company a state of ‘In transit’ would be appropriate. When the delivery reaches the destination and has been signed for, then a state of ‘delivered’ would be appropriate. This covers the company, who can be happy that the order has been satisfied, and the customer who can see what state their order is in.
Some companies would combine the Processing and Dispatch state, some companies don’t have confirmed delivery. These things need to be factored into the equation.
For companies that don’t maintain separate account pages, you have the status email. This is sent out once the item has been dispatched from the company. This allows the customer to feel some connection to the order that they have made without needing to confirm the location of their item with a customer service representative.
A few simple steps and you can help your customers feel happier with your service, and as a result more confident in their feeling that you are not some fly-by-night operation.
As the tag says, communication is the key to a successful relationship, be it business or personal.