DELETED!!!

So I was working from home today on my desktop (since I was too lazy to grab my laptop) and I noticed how Rhythmbox kept coming up with the WORST possible songs that it could possibly pick... It seemed especially interested in songs that had automatic ratings of 0 and 1 (meaning that I've hit the Next button like a cracked out gerbil that needs its fix every single time the track plays, enough so to lower a 3 star rating to a 0). So, until I decide to replace Hoary with Breezy to run Banshee, I opted to delete the following horrible, horrible, horrible artists:

• Pretty much anything from The Living End
• Blink 182 (I don't even know why I had them on my computer to start with)
• Jimmy Eat World (waaaay too poppy)
• Two Inch Winky (what the hell was I thinking?)
• No Use for a Name (I downloaded this a LONG time ago and never listened to it)
• Hidden in Plain View
• Yellowcard - Where we stand (I hate them now with their new lead singer)
• Simple Plan

Work

In other news, the Kickstand team (Anthony, Todd and I) just finished up v1.0 of Medsphere's new OpenVista client. It's sure been a crazy ride from when I was first hired and it was just Todd and I developing it! Finally, we can just about leave CPRS behind and begin developing cool new interfaces and more advanced and specialized modules. I can't wait to see what we can come up with. Also, we just hired Peter Johansen (latexer on #monodev) -- I'm pretty confident that the C#/gtk# skills that he brings to the table will make him an excellent developer and coworker.

Cowbell

I finally got my ass around to releasing Cowbell -- an elegant music organizer written in C# and gtk# -- to the public. Since I released it about a month ago, I've gotten lots of publicity, thanks mostly to Todd. Now, Cowbell has been translated in to German, and is availble on 5 Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu Breezy, Crux, LPT, Fedora)! Its truly exciting to see a project that I've worked on for more than year finally get appreciated for the gem that it is.

Recently, I've been working on Batch tagging support via the console and its truly rocking! Once I get some last kinks out, I plan to run it on my entire music collection (over 20 GB) so that I can finally have a clean music collection.

Now, I'm off to hang out with Yuliya and Chris -- more later!