pointing out the obvious

If anyone out there is having issues with comment spam, the akismet comment spam plug-in for wordpress is amazingly effective. 27 for 27 so far over the last 24hrs - apparently pharmacheaps.com is on a marketing rampage.

Update - 141 for 141. Awesome.

It’s a hot topic right now (har har) in Australia and would be an interesting precedent.  They’d be the first to ban them completely.  I can’t wait to see what happens.

Interested in a comparison between them?  Check it out here.

I think bookmooch hit the nail on the head. For those of us who are looking for a particular book, don’t want to spend $22 and have a bookcase full of other $22 books collecting dust, this site will make your day. I’ve been a member for a while and am guilty of not actually doing a book transaction yet, but I’m in a bit of a reading rut.

Reading ruts are usually well solved by Indigo or Amazon’s “other people liked” recommendation engine. If that doesn’t work for you, LibraryThing aims to fill the void. While none are perfect, they give you helpful suggestions that end up pointing you in the right direction.

Unfortunately, this gets me all hot and bothered about the state of online personalization. It seems no one has an effective solution yet for recommendations, aka cross-selling. I could go on and on about this, so I’ll save the rant for another post.

snow.

I don’t remember ever experiencing snow, lightning and thunder together, but it happened this morning around 8am on my way to work. I was also ridiculously covered in snow on my short walk to the subway.

it was surprisingly warm.

it was awesome.

When changing jobs, computers or both, it’s always annoying having to copy all of your music/pictures from one computer to another. GB’s of music and pictures can take time. For those of us with ipods older than lindsay lohan, I don’t have the battery life to listen to it all day, or the storage space to use it as a portable disk.

This is where jungle disk saves the day. It makes using the Amazon S3 network drive a snap.. So, with this in mind, I can theoretically copy all of my music to a network drive and share it between work and home.

The additional benefit is if I add music at work, I also get it at home. If I map my drives properly, maybe it will even let me keep my play history and favorites, but I’m okay if it just allows me to share my music.

For a quick primer on how to get iTunes working with JungleDisk and Amazon S3, checkout this howto.

Thanks to Taz for bookmarking it in delicious, and for me adding him in my network last night so that I may find these interesting things.