I'm pretty sure that in the history of human civilization, the above sentence is unique.

It draws a blank on google, which these days is more or less the same thing.

Slaves tuned for speed

Better athletic shoes? A special diet?

I'm sorry, I'll keep the rest of it to myself.

I always wanted to deliberately mess with that game. Say something scandalous as the second-to-last person so the last guy was like "mommy suckles five large boobies" or something.

My iLo dvr/dvd burner has freaked out on me. Unfortunately, I did not do a scientific process, so I can't tell if it's a) just the cheap TDK DVD+R's the SO brought home or b) because of the hacked firmware I installed.

It burns other dvds fine, but doesn't seem to recognize this batch at all. I checked videohelp.com, but the only specifics seem to say TDK's are variously reliable, that they should be okay if from Japan, not Taiwan, which mine are.

So I dunno what to do. I went back to the unhacked firmware, and ahead to the next version of hacked firmware, but no go.

Also. I don't know how to package my lots/neighborhoods in Sims2, so I can bring over my Sims from the laptop to play on the desktop, which has better controls. Anybody know?

Nevermind, I think I found instructions.

I sure am having a good time talking to myself.

Now my iLo is in total denial that it has any programs recorded before this morning. It shows me the program titles and even lengths, but no thumbnails, and does not let me play or edit them. Which is a pisser since I had the damn drive quite full and was about to dump everything off to dvd.

Their customer service was singularly unhelpful, but then, so was I since I didn't exactly come out and say, hey, I think my hacked firmware jacked up your box, can you fix it?

Price I pay, I guess.

Suh-weet. I just noticed I have *2* Firewire ports. The one on the back of the PC is six pin, so my iPod will connect to that from now on, when it's not otherwise occupied.

Okay, now that the thrill has somewhat subsided:

1. I hate how ITunes has 'organised' my ripped files (on the hard drive). Compilations are broken up as every track is stored under the artist (or some concatenation thereof) that performed it. Is there any middle ground? MMJB let you pick the storage hierarchy in more detail than I can find here.

2. Auto-tagging. Does iTunes do that? MMJB would look up against the filename of an already ripped file in the CDDB and see if it could find more tag information.

edit: damn, I phrased these poorly

ita, I am not sure I understand the first question, since my migraine meds have made my brain foggy. If I want to organize my library/playlists by album, all I have to do is click on Album, and it sorts it that way. What am I missing?