Wish I could have been there. History is happening right in front of us.

Bit by bit, this most-of-the-time confinement to my parents' residences is slowly driving me insane. I must face facts. I need to get a job. Even if there is enough part time contract work from scottgalvin.com and other random sources to equal my former weekly grocery store pay, I need to be somewhere other than sitting in here all the time. Even if I can't make enough to afford rent on my own place, it would be better to have a job outside these walls, at least part of the time.

Last night/early this morning, I created a little perl script to make nice looking symlinks for the filenames on my Limewire share. On my hard drive, everything is kept in a directory archive bearing the convention Artist/Album/01-Trackname_Like_This.ogg etc. This format works best for my personal usage.

But since the directory names don't show up in the Limewire share, the only thing the rest of the world was seeing was 05-Trackname_Like_This.ogg. No artist or album info. So I finally threw together a perl script which generates a directory full of symlinks of the format "Artist - Track Name Here.ogg" for easy reading. Much better. (As a bonus, I can also more easily discern what people are downloading. I could usually figure it out based on song title and track number, but sometimes, that info alone is ambiguous, especially given my less than perfect memory.)

So... with out furthe ado, the top downloads from the Bitscape collection today. I'm as surprised as everyone else.

1. Roxette - Do You Get Excited. (4 / 9)
2. Wesley Willis - Oil Express. (4 / 6)
3. Def Leppard - Hysteria. (4 / 4)
4. Roxette - Things will Never be the same. (3 / 106)
5. Wesley Willis - Eazy E. (3 / 9)
6. Roxette - Watercolours in the Rain. (3 / 7)
7. Rollins Band - Starve. (3 / 3)
8. Roxette - Fading Like a Flower. (2 / 80)
9. Evanescence - Taking Over Me. (2 / 28)
10. Britney Spears - Oops I Did It Again. (2 / 15)
11. Debbie Gibson - Shouldve Been The One. (2 / 8)
12. Wesley Willis - Tammy Smith. (2 / 7)
13. Wesley Willis - Make Sure Im out Screwing Up. (2 / 6)
14. Paula Abdul - State Of Attraction. (2 / 6)
15. Lita Ford - Fatal Passion. (2 / 5)
16. Evanescence - Going Under. (2 / 2)
17. Queensryche - The Great Divide. (2 / 2)
18. Rollins Band - On My Way to the Cage. (2 / 2)

(The first number in parentheses == completed downloads. The second number, after the /, is number of attempted downloads. I think.)

Interesting. I would never have guessed such a combo. It could be interesting to observe whether these trends persist over a longer term. (And since I think I finally tweaked the settings right so it doesn't squeeze every possible ounce of outgoing bandwidth when there's over a dozen people trying to download something, I might actually be able to leave it running continuously without any noticable degradation in performance on other networking applications.)

Yes, it's a slow news day around here.

Tomorrow, F-Zero comes out for the cube. The best racing game franchise ever! I'm succeeding at failing to resist the overwhelming temptation to plan an outing which might involve being unintentionally seduced into a spur-of-the-moment purchase. Yes, I know exactly what I'm talking about. And so does every person reading this.

On that note, I think I'll venture off to bed.