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Just call me swampy

Facebook have updated their site design again, in what many say is an attempt to counter the growing popularity of twitter. I’m in two minds about the update. On the one hand it’s facebook’s site and theirs to do what they want with. If I want control of content, delivery and style then that’s what [...]

One evening of Boffinating later

Four hours of metadata parsing later…

The initial look of the completed tag cloud compiled thanks to running last.fm’s data over my music sure ain’t pretty. Thank $deity for wordle, cos they make it look far cuter.

So I decided to start by listenning to the tracks at the intersection of electronic, mashup and folk. This yielded [...]

An evening with last.fm’s Boffin

I’ve just downloaded last.fm’s Boffin. Fortunately, as I can’t use it until it’s finished working it’s way through all of my media library it has pretty pictures to keep me happy, with a nice scrolling effect for images of new artists as it finds them.