September 19, 2007 at 07:23 · Filed under life
After 4 months of telecommuting work from LA (thanks Alan!), yesterday I joined a consultancy company based in Vancouver… actually based 10 minutes walk from my home!
So far everything is fine, the colleagues are OK but it’s incredible that we’re all male! Yesterday I pointed out one thing about the contract, I’ve only 3 weeks holidays every year and during Christmas I would like to go back to Italy for at least 2 weeks! The manager looked at me like a was crazy! So what? Isn’t normal have holidays for Christmas? Today talking about that at lunch with Jeremy, the Canadian guy who works beside me, he said that 3 weeks is very good and we are quite lucky (!) that’s definitely a different culture.
September 12, 2007 at 07:44 · Filed under life
For the last 10 years I used winamp for playing music, no matter the built-in Windows Media player releases or all the other freeware-shareware-opensource mp3 players, I always loved winamp. But now Steve (probably) force me to use iTunes. I mean, it’s easy to be attracted by the cover flow functionality present in the latest iPods, so I start importing my music library to iTunes.
1st attempt = pain in the a**, everything was messed up. So I started cleaning with the application Tag&Rename every mp3 metadata (ID3v1 and ID3v2) and adding one album a time. Even caring every single file, the fecking iTunes was splitting the songs of the same album in different ones. Before giving it up I realized that if you:
- select all the files of the same album
- right-click and clear the “Album Artist” and the “Album”, then OK
- right-click and set “Album Artist” and the “Album”, even the same as before!
Tada! Now all the song are associated with the same album. All you need now is a cover and for that just stick in Google words like: “cover” “cd” and try few of those sites. Probably there’s a better way, but for the moment this is what I found.
I’m sure Antonio knows some interesting tricks with iTunes! And what about you Ilaria?
September 11, 2007 at 00:41 · Filed under life
(thanks Antonio for the link)
