‘He’s just sleeping, I kept telling myself’ a report from a Guardian journalist who was on the scene when two US helicopters opened fire on a crowd of civillians standing around a burnt out humvee last Sunday. Definitely worth reading; pretty powerful stuff.

I just arrived home from the PJ Harvey gig here in Bristol village. Really, really good, in my extremely great and lauded[*] opinion. She was in fine form and seemed to be really enjoying the gig herself, something that I always think is great. After all, if you’re tired of gigging, why gig? To me the whole point is to enjoy yourself, especially playing music; if it’s a chore then go back to the studio and make up some more great songs =)

I’ve made a few improvements to the UI of bluefunk. You can see them in the new screenshot to your right.

The control buttons now have images as I worked out how to do it. In Gtk this is a little long winded, again because of the flexibility of the toolkit. You can basically put anything you like onto a button. This means that you have to build the image/label combination yourself, put it into another widget — because the button can only have one widget inside it — and then tell the button to display that widget. A little non-intuitive to say the least!

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.