A Slight Refresh

While I’ve not thrown caution to the wind and once again redesigned my blog’s layout from scratch, I have gone ahead and… updated and added plugins/widgets.  Basically all I really did was clean up some unused files on the server and replace old plugins with new ones.  I also added a Last.fm widget to the sidebar, but I’m not sure how long I’ll end up using it.

I’ve tried using AudioScrobbler/Last.fm several times since mid-2004, but I never end up using it for all that long.  I’ll scrobble some songs for a few days (maybe a week or two, tops) but in the end I always get sick of either launching the Last.fm application before listening to music, or I find myself changing my tastes in music to suit my Last.fm profile/blog sidebar.  That’s so not what it was intended for, so I end up giving it up.

Anyhoo, maybe this time will be different.  I used to use it with my iPod as well, so whenever I’d listen to music at school or on ze bus, I’d come home, sync it with iTunes, and end up uploading more scrobbler info, but with me not having an iPod these days (I rely on my BlackBerry for music mostly, but that might change before the end of the month) I don’t have a way to scrobble my mobile listening habits.  ‘Less there’s a secret BlackBerry Last.fm application I’ve not run into yet.  (A quick Googling says they discontinued support for WinMo and BlackBerry earlier this year.)

Here’s hoping I don’t just update my Last.fm feed with a few scrobblings of Apoptygma Berzerk before giving up on the service again.

(Oh, in other news, I pre-ordered Left 4 Dead 2 via Steam, and will be following suit with Modern Warfare 2 pretty soon.)

November 2, 2009 · Filed Under Announcements, BlackBerry, Journal, Projects, School

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