Dorks And Losers

I’ve been receiv­ing an error code 403 asso­ci­ated with the radio func­tion on Last.fm. I’ve had this prob­lem for about a week now, and I thought it was just a small prob­lem asso­ci­ated with its recent power prob­lems. But I’ve tried the Last.fm client on both my Mac and Win­dows PCs at home and worked fine, even after down­load­ing and installing updates.

It doesn’t work on my work machine, even after down­load­ing and installing updates. Here’s a screenshot:

Every time I try to turn on my radio for either ‘My Rec­om­men­da­tions’ or ‘My Neigh­bour­hood Rec­om­men­da­tions,’ a starts and cycles through about five or six songs within the span of five or six sec­onds and shoot out this dia­logue box.

Arg…

This is prob­a­bly just reme­died by a sim­ple uninstall/reinstall, but man…
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The Econ­o­mist redesigned its web­site on Sun­day. I like it. It’s a small step up from its pre­vi­ous design. It def­i­nitely looks much cleaner, although that top row below the header looks clut­tered, espe­cially look­ing at the AJAX box with “Most Read” crammed in.

Blu-ray sucks.
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I know there are pro­grams that deal with this, but this new ser­vice TuneUp looks promis­ing in deal­ing with mp3 meta­data and album art on the fly. I agree with Kin­caid that a sub­scrip­tion ser­vice doesn’t look too appeal­ing, espe­cially when there are free pro­grams out there. Adver­tis­ing seems the best bet. I’ll try to grab a beta account and test drive it with my 10,000+ tracks.

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