Burrito West Blog

The last week has been nutso. I've been taking vacation time at work to stay home and do contract work until the wee hours of the morning. It was just like being back in school again (except for the part where I'm being paid).... super stressful, crazy deadlines, and hours and hours and hours working on one thing. Fortunately, I find said thing interesting. And the end product was pretty good, I think.

I got to have a normal work day on Friday, which was quite lovely, and then didn't have to work at all on Friday night. Sweet. I've got a bit of work to do tomorrow, but I'm taking today off so I don't go bonkers.

I spent last night watching a video about this new thing, Google Wave, which, like all google products, seems like it will be amazing and change the way people communicate/collaborate. Very cool stuff. And very intuitive interface, looks very easy to use.

In complete contrast to that kind of software, I then tried to use this feature at my library where you can download/borrow audiobooks via your library card (your library probably offers this too).

This required downloading a bit of microsoft software (Overdrive), updating 1 other bits of software (windows media player, iTunes), and spending hours on the internet reading tech forums to find out how people solved all the glitches and problems that were involved in every. single. step of the process (which are not covered in the 'help' anywhere. This disaster of a set up requires 3 pieces of software and guess what? Doesn't work for me. One bit of software can't find the other bit of software, so even though I have the audiobooks downloaded, I can't transfer them to my ipod because they're all wrapped up in digital rights management stuff and the ONLY way to transfer them is via this terrible piece of software that won't work. This would be a prime example of how NOT to program stuff. If only google people could program everything. *sigh*

I'm going to go ignore technology and play with yarn for a while. I've had enough of computers for this week.

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Update - I lied, I couldn't step away from the computer in defeat. And I finally got it to work!! It was saying I needed iTunes 7.6.blah.blah or newer. I had iTunes 9.0.1.blah so I thought I was good. I updated to iTunes 9.0.2.blah and it fixed the problem. Oh technology. Now I'm off to craft, secure in the knowledge that stupid software glitches have not yet defeated me.