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Comcast Van Towage

Thursday, Feb 26. 2009  –  Category: Cars

At the Songbird office, we have a standing appointment at ~3:30pm to walk around the corner to our neighbourhood Caffe Trieste (warning, music auto-play at their website). We do this for two reasons:

1. They make a viciously good Africano
2. The metered parking there becomes a tow-away zone from 3p-7p

Today’s tow fail was especially good and karmic because we got to watch a Comcast van get ticketed and towed:

Honestly, I was having sort of a crap day, and spending 10 minutes watching this guy get towed completely brightened my day up.  I normally feel slightly guilty watching everyday people’s cars get towed – so it was nice not to have any conscience eating at me this time. 

Last.fm Radio update

Friday, Feb 20. 2009  –  Category: Songbird

For folks following the development of the Last.fm/Audioscrobbler add-on… I’ve been working on adding Last.fm Radio support. Check out the screenshot here for a glimpse of the latest revision.

As always, your feedback is appreciated… if you’re running a 1.2.0a nightly, please take it out for a test (XPI) and let me know your thoughts. This is still fairly alpha since it hasn’t had much exposure or proper QA testing – hence the 1.2.0a requirement.

If you find any good bugs, feel free to post a comment to this entry for now.

Update: This won’t work if your Songbird language is set to anything other than English (US) for now. As the UI gets finalised, I’ll get the extension localised.

Update 2: Several people are reporting duplicate Radio nodes… d’oh. I’m looking into it now.

AWOL

Monday, Feb 2. 2009  –  Category: Travel

I’m going on some much needed vacation tomorrow… well, truthfully it’s a little bit of work, and a little bit of R&R. We’re meeting some friends from Singapore in Ubud, Bali for a yoga retreat. After that I’m off to Hong Kong for a couple of days for business, and then over to Taiwan to hang with Wendy’s family and partake of Taipei night markets for a few days before coming back to the states.

If you try to reach me by email and I’m slow to respond, I apologise… but I’ll get back to you soon.

Random travel review (and we haven’t even left yet!)… I’ve always liked flying Eva Air, but their new travel tips email they send out the day before your flight is awesome. It includes your finalised schedule (in case the exact flight times have changed), contact info for Eva Air in all the various countries you’re visiting on that itinerary, as well as the closest travel offices to the cities you’re staying in, airport information including lounge information/location for the airports you’ll be transiting through, and weather for the various cities you’re visiting. The absolute best part though is that they include pictures/icons and voltage information for the electrical grids in each cities. Amazingly handy little email.