Valley of the Trolley Dollies

I know: I’ve been a bit ‘off’ with my posting lately. No fiction last Friday. Days pass with nothing. Been busy, you see. Been a little stressed too with a medical issue that worried me. Could have been serious, but turned out to be nothing.

Had a really great weekend - sorted out loads of stuff that’s been hanging around in the back of my mind (sounds saaad, but tidying up the kitchen after Christmas, getting rid of some paperwork, finding a home for some of our Christmas Pressies - not to mention some of our Wedding Pressies - and so on), spoke to my parents, and had a lovely long conversation with Whit in NY (haven’t heard from her in ages), watched some TV and listened to a whole series of ‘Round The Horne’ (D got me the entire collection in a huge box set for Chrimbo).

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Originally written in December, just found down the back of the sofa. Here, for your perusal…

One of the newer features of the iTunes / iPod software (alright, it was probably added in 2004, or something, but I’ve just got around to upgrading, so it’s new to me) is the ability, at the push of a button, to import CD cover art for all the albums you have in your iTunes library.

It’s very clever, and one can’t help wondering how they do it. The general wisdom seems to be that the program picks up key words (Album name, Artist etc.) and trawls several sites on L’internet looking for gifs or images that are a match, before importing them and pasting them into your ’scrapbook’ (as ‘t’were).

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So, with a week ’til Australia day, and a little over three weeks til D and I set sail on our honeymoon cruise around Australia and New Zealand, I really didn’t need to read this in the Guardian.