Well, this stinks … AT&T Wireless/Cingular has their clocks set wrong — my phone is autoupdating its clock (based on the cell network time) to about 3 minutes behind the government’s atomic clock. No wonder I’m always late. 
Still trying to use my private wiki for note taking at work .. I’m not, as I’d hoped, using it for everything I could possibly want to record — I can type faster and cleaner than I write , but I can pick up a notebook and pen faster than I can load the right webpage or open the right file in a text editor. And a spiral is so much lighter and easier to grab on the way to a meeting.
Haven’t completely abandoned the wiki though .. upgraded my version of Instiki today, in fact. And since there appears to be no “import” function, I rolled my own. I was impressed with how easy that turned out to be — curl is quite versatile with the HTTP POST action. I’d post the actual script to show you, but I left it at work .. maybe tomorrow
(No, this has nothing to do with DRM .. )
It’d be neat if the iPod would let you flag something as “never play this
again”. Sure, you can already do this with the rating system — I give
something a 1-star rating, and then once in a while go remove all the mp3’s
with 1 star. But unless you make a special smart playlist and always use that
playlist, you might hear it again before it’s deleted. With a separate flag, it would never pop up again in a random shuffle.
This flag would have another use .. say I use streamripper to save some
download some news from someplace like
this mp3 once, and only within a few days of copying to my iPod. So I set an
expiration date and/or a playcount limit. So after I hear it once or the story
is a week old, it never comes up randomly again. It stays on the iPod until I
explicitly delete it or all the expired tracks, so I can still manually select
it if I really do want to hear it again.
Just a thought ..
Might be possible someday with this Linux firmware for the iPod
Recent tracks from last.fm