Shiny new learning (Slight return)

[hirez]

• Lock a set of people from all over the place into a small air-conditioned room for the thick end of a week and The Lurgi will spread. Thus we find that the JHR is both thick and snotty. Bugger. We also find that the inside of the (Nat West) Tower/42 is tiny and that if you're in the bogs, the high-speed lifts sound like passing tube trains. That Corbusier fellow was having a right old laugh and no mistake.
  
  
• Buy some new tech and it'll show up all the bugs in yr old kit. To whit: some credit-card shaped music thing from Creative. The USB rig on my ancient PC is clearly some prehistoric version that delivers stuff by imaginary siilcon donkey, so I finally need to buy a new m/b. Still, seven years is a bloody good average in PC terms. Mind, the sod in the shop alleged the thing looked like a USB drive to all and sundry computers. In a pig's arse it does. I had to bag some shonky app to make it work with the Mac, and it looks as if Itunes and the ancient JHR mp3-filing method have failed to get on at a fundamental level. I'll use MP3-herding apps when the blasted things stop being significantly worse than a vaguely-structured filesystem. On the other hand, every sodding media-bothering application I have ever met is a sack of crap. I mean, seriously. F-ing Oracle's f-ing Couch grass (or sterile Brome) -like takeover of machines is prime historical evidence that application designers should never be allowed to try and outsmart the OS.
  
  
• Friday night was utterly cosmic. All involved may call upon me for 4am body-disposal problems. (Why d'you think I keep a shovel in the car?)
  
  
• If you can get the cheap rates, the Hoxton Hotel is a splendid place to stay. If you can't, make sure someone else is picking up the tab. Sound staff, fine rooms, free wireless that's not port-80 only and a simple yet well-rendered menu.

Comments

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

The Hoxton is indeed very nice, it's a shame their "sale day" website is such an arse.
The black marble bathrooms do seem to cry out for one to do *bad things*...or is that just me. ;0)

[spride.livejournal.com]

Stop using the file system to encode metadata. it's 1½-dimensional at best. Just use ID3 tags and stop worrying.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

See above. When the shonky applications that badly overlay the metadata onto the FS model actually DTRT in re. UI I shall think about it, and not before.

(ie - The Creative 'file explorer' appears to subclass a standard XP explorer window, allowing right-click cut&paste. However, when you 'drill down' (hateful phrase) into an empty directory, C&P functionality is missing, replaced by a helpful 'use drag & drop to move files' tooltip. Drag and drop does not work.)

They're all as bad as each other. Bastards.

[spride.livejournal.com]

> The Creative 'file explorer'

Creative? That'll be where the problem comes in, then. I guess you have a device that requires it?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I fear so. A Zen. Thankfully one can just give it a local folder to 'sync' with and thus avoid most of their b0rked s/w.