I went with a couple girls from my hostel to a free tour of the city.  The tour worked on tips, but the guy who ran the tour was fantastic.  I was considering trying to be a tour guide when I saw him, but now I see the bar is set really high. 

He was a Scottish guy named Peter, but he knew a massive amount of history of Prague.  He moved here 12 years ago and just fell in love with the city and the architecture.  Well when it was done I had not planned to tip since I have no money, but I felt compelled to do so. 

Then Peter went with me, the 2 girls and an Australian guy back towards where our hostel was and we all went to a bar he frequents.  Super cheap, quality beer there and they just kept showing up at the table.  the last beer at this place I did not want as I was about at my limit but I drank it anyways.

We then left there and went to some restaurant (other place to drink more beer) and I had made up my mind that I could not afford anything more so I didn’t order anything.  Yet despite not ordering anything I somehow ended up with another beer in front of me.  

NOTE:  Only food I had today was 1 slice of banana bread I got at a bagel shop before the tour. 

Had a really good time while I was out today, and took pictures of “Amsterdam from Eurotrip” since it was actually a bridge in Prague, Haha.   I will label it and put it on Facebook later with the other pics I got.  I really should of brought a camera with a zoom and a flash.

I got back to the hostel and was very happy to hear that somebody canceled and I would be able to stay in my same room that night.  As previously they had told me I would have to move rooms. 

I don’t recall walking to the room but I guess I did.  I made a drunken attempt to hit on one of the girls staying in the room with me.  Seems that I just am not that smooth when I am leaning on a counter for support to prevent falling down.  It’s pretty rare for me to get this drunk.  I am fairly good about stopping when I hit my limit, but Peter informed at how rude it is in Prague to not drink your entire beer.  He conveyed a story of him dumping the remainder of somebody’s beer they didn’t drink into his cup and getting punched out by an 80 year old man who observed him doing it.

Passed out early and woke up at 4am, unable to get back to sleep because the room was spinning.  Stupid room, I was trying to sleep.

Being that I am a bad man, I needed to do 30 hours of community service before x-mas eve. However I don’t really want to waste a week worth of time cleaning up a road or something. I looked into all sorts of shady ways to get out of doing the community service. However I settled on creating a logo and letterhead for a company and then making them a MySpace page.

Now, technically they just make no profit and are not a non-profit organization. I’ve been assured nobody really checks into it and the letterhead looks pimp so I am turning it in. If the city has any issue with it I’m sure they will contact me about it in order to tell me I have to do more.

Either way I am done for now. If I have to do more due to me not “understanding” that the company needs to be titled as a non-profit organization then I’m sure they will give me an extension.

In case you feel like seeing the logo/layout I made them you can see it at: http://myspace.com/rpmproductionsnw08

Honestly it’s not really my style. I hate all the crap myspace puts on the page, but the client wanted all of it to stay. So I just hid all of it below the main image so that you have to scroll to see it. It seemed like a fair compromise with style. Client also liked gray better than red for boxes and background. Whatever works ya know.

Speaking of MySpace. I just redesigned my profile too. I managed to get it to hide the ugly menu bar and search and then look good in all the browsers. Before it looked totally different in Internet Explorer due to all the shit that MySpace removes from your code (unholy bitch of a site), but overall I would say the site now looks more like my site and less like theirs (woohoo).

http://www.myspace.com/trimidium

Am I Evil? Yes I Am

So I thought I would throw all of my music into iTunes now that my desktop computer is up.  I mean that way I can have it download more cover art and can have last.fm read my library from it.

Seemed like a good idea at the time. 

So it ends up in there and there is this new “album view” and I quickly notice an album the artist says “Amos, Tori”, and knowing that was not how it should be listed I right clicked on the album and chose “get info” which is where you go to update the ID3 tags on iTunes.  So I checked in the box for Artist and Album Artist and I typed Tori Amos instead of Amos, Tori.

I hit okay and went back to watching a video.  When I was done with my video I noticed that iTunes had finished “correcting my album”. 

Though now it seems that not just that album was “fixed” but ALL of my albums were “fixed”.  250+ gigs of mp3’s from my Everything Else folder (or 63,439 songs) all had their ID3 tags changed to say that they were by Tori Amos. 

I mean I didn’t think the album Abbey Road was by Tori Amos.  Grr…

There is no such thing as an “undo” for changing 63,000 songs.  So that means every single song in my entire library has bad ID3 tags. 

Oh, I can just hear my friend Josh laughing now…

How to fix this. 

Winamp has this “auto-tag” thing that actually works pretty well, but it’s not perfect.  To prevent it from getting totally confused I need to remove the artist from all of my mp3’s so it doesn’t first look for Tori Amos albums. 

So when it completes that I am going to throw ALL of my music into auto-tag. 

Now, this will actually kind of suck.  My music is VERY well.  I mean I am very anal about my filing system.  Artist\Year – Album\Track# Track Name.mp3

The ID3 tags are just as clean because of it.  When I put them into my Everything Else folder I go and make sure all the ID3 tags are nice and clean to match the filing system. 

So until an hour ago I had the world’s best sorted and cleanest music collection.  After auto-tag it’s really a total crapshot as to if it will even be picking the correct information.

Some of it will be correct, some of it will be wrong.

I guess I am glad this has happened in 2008 and not earlier because mass ID3 tagging didn’t have an even half-ass effective global database even a year ago.

Seriously as stupid as I feel for having done this, I looked through iTunes and in it’s default mode this is 100% for sure going to happen to other people.  Seems that every single file is checked in by default, only you can’t see that it’s checked in.  When you right click on one album it highlights JUST that one album.  So iTunes doesn’t care what is highlighted, only what is checked in, and as I said.  It doesn’t show you what is checked in under the default album view mode. 

I have never liked iTunes but this is a MAJOR design flaw.

BOOOOOO Apple.