…And I can be done with the semester. Althought, with the end of the semester comes the seemingly inevitable late nights and even longer tests. I guess the good thing is that I only have two or three tests on finals weeks, and I can be out of here towards the beginning of the week. I’m also looking forward to see two other friends of mine that will be home from college for the first time since the left.
I may have found a bit of a problem with
Netvibes. For some reason they don’t seem to support a “Forgot my Password” function like everyone else has — or am I missing something. Needless to say, because of this I now have to try and remember all of the feeds that I had on the start page. This has, however; forced/convinced me to move to a desktop RSS reader. Netvibes was getting a little long to have to scroll all the way down to see all the feeds.
To jump a little off topic, why does it seem that nobody will allow you to cancel your account. I have a Yahoo! account I don’t need, a Xanga one seeing as they don’t want to send me the password I forgot, one for Tagworld — the MySpace of Web 2.0 it seems, potentially horid layouts and all — and probably numerous other accounts I have forgot about over time. It’s not like they contain sensitive information that I don’t want to be in databases, I just don’t need them anymore and I don’t want them out there. It just ….annoys me.
And to round out the rainbow of topics on this blog…NPR has streams of concerts prefromed at the 9:30 Club in D.C. For the most part they are good, and have really cool bands, but some of the streams stop giving me a error saying that the network has problems. Other than that, really cool stuff there.
We are presently negotiating with some of the major record labels to resolve a dispute over licensing music for LAUNCHcast. This is why the catalog available for your station is now 150,000 songs, and you\’re not hearing all artists you might have rated highly. However, please note that you still have access to the entire catalog of 225,000+ songs by listening to fan stations of your favorite artists via the artist pages.
Yahoo! Help - LAUNCHcast
As I said last post, Yahoo! Music was really drving me crazy with it’s song selection. So I went searching around to see if there was a reason I wasn’t getting to listen to the artist I ranked — other than the fact that I wouldn’t use the paid service and I was over my “monthly bandwidth”. Well there was. This just annoys me. The record industry makes enough money as it is — I’m talking about the companies and the executives, not the musicans — they don’t need more. Didn’t they also want more money from Apple as well? Talk about a monopoly.
… of the semester. I just got back from fall break and am procrastinating doing my accounting homework. Which isn’t that hard, but incredibly time comsuming and I just don’t have the concentration to do it all in one sitting. It was nice to go home and see some friends and all, but I am glad to be back out here. This place has been more homey that home is, but I guess that’s too be expected.
I would really like to know what the fasination with Facebook is. Our campus was just added to it and by the response it got you would think that it was the best thing since sliced bread. Now I can understand being somewhat excited that we now have access to it, but seriously people, I think some of us go a little overboard with it. Repeat it with me, “Facebook Friends are not a benchmark for popularity, and neither is the amount of groups you are in.” In my opinion it’s interesting but nothing to get too excited about.
Flock has been publicily released. I’ve got my copy, now I only need to actually use it some time.
I really like the Yahoo! Music player. It has some really nice options, such as ratings, moods, and your own station. The only bad thing is that they limit the bandwidth usage, and the playlist is seems, for non paying customers. While it doesn’t cost that much, I can’t even spare that much a month. I’m barely making due as it is, of course that’s probably because I still don’t have a job. The only other major gripe I have against it is that you have to use IE to launch it. Bummer 
