If a POJO is a plain old Java object then does that make the PHP equivalent a POPO?

Rocking out to Freebird. He doesn't hit a single note but doesn't stop him from having fun with it. [video=cHU6l2av5b4Luz_b]

I'm now remembering why I don't use Last.fm or MOG. The concept is kind of cool. But only *kind of* cool. I already know what music I like. My tastes are fairly mainstream -- ya that's right, I'll admit it -- and I get enough personal recommendations from friends and co-workers to catch the stuff that wouldn't present itself to me through normal channels. But the real reason why I don't use those services is because I just don't like the client apps. I don't like the default Last.fm app because it's an actual OSX application with a full window and everything. I installed the unofficial iScrobbler app which was a little better but it added an icon to my menu bar which I'm not thrilled about either. Plus, it seemed to have issues connecting to the last.fm server. It submitted movies I played as well as music. Then there's the fact that I have yet another app running on my system taking up memory and occaisional CPU cycles and providing my with minimal value. The cost/benefit equation -- for me anyway -- worked out against Last.fm. So, it's gone from my system now. Ditto with MOG.

You gotta see this. Especially the army crawl followed by a grenade (rossin bag) toss at around the 1:18 minute mark. I love how he draws an outline around home plate after covering it with dirt. Very nice touch.

Saw this commercial on TV tonight. Thought it was pretty funny.

It's not until fall 2008 but check out this trailer for a new Star Wars TV show. Then read this news item on TV.com.

Am I the only who is not at all interested in the whole "historic joint appearence" of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together? Did anyone really expect anything interesting at all from this?

The other day I'm walking down a flight of stairs with my 3 year-old son Tyler and I notice he's not holding onto the rail/banister. So I say, "Tyler, please hold onto the rail." He gives me a smirk and replies, "It's not called a rail." Hmm. Maybe he learned the word 'banister' and he's trying to correct me for calling it a 'rail'. So I say, "What do you call it?" and he says back, "Uh... a sniffbone!" Yep, a sniffbone. We've been calling them sniffbones ever since. I checked Google and Wikipedia and neither one returns anything for 'sniffbone'. So it appears Tyler has made up a completely original word. And it sort of fits the object being described. I think that's pretty cool.

Saw this while trudging through Digg yesterday. Thought it was pretty funny.

Every once in a while some crazy person asks me how to copy music files from an iPod to their computer. My response is usually, "Aren't you using iTunes? That makes managing your music incredibly easy and you never have to think about what's on your iPod versus what's on your computer. Just do it all through iTunes and sync on a somewhat regular basis. You'll be very happy." But then that crazy person will tell me they don't like how iTunes manages the actual files and directories on disk. My response is, "Why do you care how iTunes manages files on disk? That should be completely invisible to you." Then the crazy person tells me how they have this ingenious method where they have a folder for each artist. Then within that folder they have a folder for each album by that artist. Then within each album folder are the actual song files for that album. Yep, that's actually quite a good way to manage your music files. I did the same thing before I started using iTunes. The people at Apple thought it was a pretty good idea too because that's *exactly* how iTunes manages its music library on disk! Crazy people! Stop doing what iTunes will do for you! iTunes knows about things like artists, albums, and songs from each files' ID3 tags. Whenever you edit a song's information in iTunes you're really editing the song's ID3 tags. iTunes uses that information to figure out where in the filesystem to place your file. Now some crazy people love to download music from peer-to-peer services. If you're one of those people please don't. That the best way to cripple your machine with viruses, spyware and other nasty stuff. Well, if you're using Windows that is. Anyway, many times, these files don't contain proper ID3 tags. The filenames don't follow any standard naming convention either. So the crazy people manually create the necessary folders and copy the file into it and rename the file to suit their personal tastes. However, you could just as easily imported the file into iTunes. Just double-click it. Then just edit the song's information. This does *two* things: gives the song its necessary ID3 tags and creates the proper folders and files on disk. Just let go of the idea that you have to manually take care of all those little files and folders and your music listening life will become so much easier. Plus, if all of your songs have proper ID3 tags you can do some really cool stuff with Smart Playlists too. Still, some people want manually manage music on their iPod for whatever reason. Maybe they have a song on their iPod that's not on their computer for some weird reason and they want it back on their computer. Maybe they hooked up their iPod to their brother-in-law's computer and copied a bunch of music to it and now want to get that music onto their own computer. I don't know who would be doing that. Maybe these people are indeed crazy. Anyway, if you absolutely have to do something like that then this little application called Floola might help. I just happened to see it mentioned on Digg today. I've never used it so I hope nobody asks me how it works. But there ya go.