Party like it’s, ehm, about 1998 I guess — Dabs just sent me an advert for a huge 256K compact flash card! A mistake, me thinks. However, the card could be useful for my camera, and it’s cheap. (assuming they really mean 256MB!)

Talking of the camera, I really should get round to putting some photos up here. It is a new camera, so don’t be too harsh on me. It would be nice to be able to stick the photos up here though, save me having to email them to people. Bit of python should sort it; does anyone have any reccomendations for good, simple gallery webapps?

Well I decided to call my mp3 player app bluefunk. I’ve been shifting it over to use the MVC model used in GTK, so now the playlist is stored as a model that is displayed in the playlist treeview. It’s quite nice in that I don’t have to convert between playlist and treeview internal representations any more because changes to the playlist automatically show up in the treeview. The program is also more stable now. It’s all quite nice. I still need to find a nice C# mp3 tag library, though; if anyone knows one could they tell me.

And further, the “You have unused icons on your desktop” balloon that just won’t stop bugging me right now. I only have six icons on my desktop, for crying out load. And it puts an icon in the system tray! Go away, annoying things….

One of the first things I do when I install Windows is to turn the sounds off. Quite why there are so many of the damn things I’m not sure. I don’t really need some noise to tell me that a program has crashed: I’m either looking at the screen and will see, or I’m not looking at the screen and so don’t care. (The main reason, of course, is just that they interrupt my music though.)

Could someone please enlighten me as to why the hell so many propgrams in Windows choose to put such stupid, useless, idiotic icons in my system tray?! Why?! I have five icons in my tray that I have never used, will never use and don’t want to ever see again.

Why do ATI and the makers of the little pointing stick thing on my laptop feel so self-important that I might want to change my resolution from the system tray or alter my pointing stick sensitivity? Has anyone ever done it? Why do who-ever made the keep-the-system-uptodate software think I’ll ever care to use their icon? And don’t get me started on anti-virus software. Make the icons go away…