Karen Walker For Vice President

IT WAS FINE 'TILL THEY BROKE IT

Soundflavor updated their website over the weekend and now nothing works. Dang, now i have to pick my own music. Oh the humanity.

PLAYLISTS FOR LAZY PEOPLE

So, I've been playing with this program called Soundflavor dj for a couple of days now. It's a (free) playlist generator that works with iTunes. Picked it up after purchasing the now free (grumble) muffin music finder from Magix and playing with the built-in playlist generator in winamp (I crashed it the second time I used it). Both excellent generators but neither can access the iTunes store stuff (For all of you fans of The Filter, I'm still waiting for them to grant me access to the site to download the program; the day I registered there was a glitch in their email system; received an email from them about the problem a couple weeks ago but nothing since).

I have my own smart playlists set up but sometimes they're not exactly what I'm looking for. Soundflavor does a fairly good job of finding similar tracks in my library. It also recommends songs for download (some for purchase, some free) from their website (with free registration). You can also upload playlists to their website to share with others or post to your website/blog.

I like Soundflavor… mostly. It only id'd about 3100 of the 3600 songs in my library. I can make it hang if I switch songs more than twice and although it works from within iTunes it doesn't allow use of iTunes' crossfade featureL. Still, it's better than hunting.

$79.95, WOTTA DEAL

I was just looking to upgrade Outlook so I could sync info with my phone (no likey 2000). Just for grins checked the AAFES website figuring I could save a couple bucks on the sales tax and shipping (if I felt lazy). Must have stared at the page for half an hour when I saw the price. Pretty cool so far (writing and publishing this from Word, sans pic; and yes, I know I'm late to the party). Sometimes being retired is kewl.

P.S. the spell cheker hats me.

QUOTE OF THE DAY…

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a shp, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Lazarus Long