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Now that I’m browsing without Adblock, I’ve noticed the ads that Last.fm sprinkles on its pages, and I thought of something:

What if the ads were targeted specifically for your music tastes?

It probably wouldn’t be too hard — Last.fm already taps into its database of your music taste to calibrate the “Taste-o-Meter” comparing your “musical compatibility” with your friends. So why wouldn’t it be a reasonably simple task to pick from different genres of ads and …

I recently posted an AppleScript for X-Chat Aqua that displayed iTunes’ currently playing track. However, there were a few limitations and needed improvements, including:

• Complicated installation — made more so by the fact that X-Chat’s user commands menu kinda sucks.
• It’s not contained — you needed an AppleScript file lying around your system.
• Limited functionality — it was impossible to output the information in an action, for example.

I finally got around to digging a bit …

Update: This has been made obsolete by the much-improved plugin.

Courtesy of Joey Brooks, a.k.a. tunicwriter, here is an AppleScript script for X-Chat Aqua that you can use to show your currently playing iTunes song to the rest of the IRC chatroom. Of course, if iTunes isn’t running, a message is shown to that effect.

I want to make it clear that none of it is my code — all Joey’s. Direct all complaints to himSort of …

OiNK, the known yet unknown tracker that everyone wanted an invite to, has been shut down and the site replaced with a gray message from the authorities. Apparently the servers, which were in Amsterdam, were seized and the owner, a 24-year-old man from England, was arrested.

What I don’t get are both the charges being brought against him and the purpose of this. As far as I know, though …

The time has come. Today, I had to delete the album art off my iPod to free up enough space to update it with my new music. Now, I have 591 MB free, but that won’t last me long, and on top of that I really liked having the album art there. Now, my Now Playing screen just looks lonely. Just text. I had been putting off buying a new iPod, waiting for the next …

12 hours of my day yesterday was spent at Seattle Center, at Bumbershoot. I’m only going to be going one of the three days, but it was a lot of fun. For those who aren’t familiar with the event, Bumbershoot is a Seattle music festival that showcases mostly local artists, which runs through Labor Day weekend. Basically, the entirety of Seattle (at least those who are into this type of …