What time is it?
Okay so I am
back from India and am feeling like *crap* right now.
I arrived back at about 13:00 Friday and after a
shower and change of clothes I hit the pub for some
drinking. I didn’t fair to well and by 20:30 was in a
taxi and on my way back to bed. Saturday I mainly
spent lounging around the house feeling rough. I
think I might need a few months in hospital (Man
Flu). Today I got up about 10:00 and I must admit to
feeling a little spaced out. This morning was good
and I got some stuff done, but now I don’t really
trust myself to do anything.
I’m therefore going to publish this and get my head down for an hour and see if that helps. More later!
I’m therefore going to publish this and get my head down for an hour and see if that helps. More later!
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Return to India
So tomorrow I
return to India and I must say I don’t really want to
go back. Not for any really negative reasons, but
just because I have so many things going on back here
at the moment. I am enjoying my new job, despite it
being extreamly busy, and have just started making
arrangments to sort the work on the house out. Taking
two weeks out now is just a pain in the backside.
I fly tomorrow morning at 10:00 arriving at 23:00 IST tomorrow night, after being Duty Manager all weekend. I am looking forward to catching up with the team again and saying goodbye properly but it’s going to be difficult managing my now UK based diary with the time difference. The saving grace is its only for two weeks.
On the home front it’s been really nice catching up with family and friends again after so long, and the sun has been out which has made doing things possible. It’s been really nice on the weekend sitting in a beer garden putting the world to rights before tucking into some good old English food. What’s been even nicer is the peace and quiet when I get home from work. No horn’s sounding, no dogs barking!
I fly tomorrow morning at 10:00 arriving at 23:00 IST tomorrow night, after being Duty Manager all weekend. I am looking forward to catching up with the team again and saying goodbye properly but it’s going to be difficult managing my now UK based diary with the time difference. The saving grace is its only for two weeks.
On the home front it’s been really nice catching up with family and friends again after so long, and the sun has been out which has made doing things possible. It’s been really nice on the weekend sitting in a beer garden putting the world to rights before tucking into some good old English food. What’s been even nicer is the peace and quiet when I get home from work. No horn’s sounding, no dogs barking!
Playing with Technology PT3
Okay so like
most of the planet my music collection lives in
iTunes, together with my podcasts, audio books, and
home movies. Now being on the move a lot I use my 5th
Generation 80GB video iPod to listen and watch the
varied content, but what happens if I am away for
more than a few days. Well, usually I have watched /
listened to the podcasts and tend to rely on my audio
books and music. I do however take advantage of the
duty free shops at London Heathrow on a regular
basis, collecting CD’s and DVD’s, or services such as
audible.com to download more audio books . The
problem you ask? Well getting them onto my iPod means
coping them to my local iTunes library, which means
when I get home I have multiple iTunes libraries that
I need to keep synchronized.
Well, the answer it would seem is an application from SmithMicro called “Tune Ranger”. Tune Ranger allows you to keep up to 4 Mac’s/Windows machines and / or iPods in sync with each other (You obviously need at least
one Mac
or Windows machine running iTunes) and better still
gives you complete control over what it is you are
synchronizing. You can synchronize by play list,
genre, artist, file format, the list is extensive.
You can also choose to replicate one way or another
overwriting the destination, or being overwritten.
You can merge one way, both ways or even allow it to
duplicate. You can set it to avoid items you already
have, items that are orphaned the list just goes on.
The killer thing is that they don’t have to be all your Mac’s. Husband, wife, 2 kids, all with Mac’s / PC’s / iPods? Synchronize the lot, better still synchronize the items you want. Don’t want the wife metal working podcasts, or little Jack’s “Bob the Builder greatest hits” filter them out.
Now I wonder if there is an iPhoto version?
Well, the answer it would seem is an application from SmithMicro called “Tune Ranger”. Tune Ranger allows you to keep up to 4 Mac’s/Windows machines and / or iPods in sync with each other (You obviously need at least
The killer thing is that they don’t have to be all your Mac’s. Husband, wife, 2 kids, all with Mac’s / PC’s / iPods? Synchronize the lot, better still synchronize the items you want. Don’t want the wife metal working podcasts, or little Jack’s “Bob the Builder greatest hits” filter them out.
Now I wonder if there is an iPhoto version?