Music Matching (part deux)

After a comment on my previous blog entry (about creating a shazam clone) I started tinkering again.

Somebody asked: Could this be used to detect duplicate songs in my mp3 collection!?

That is exacly what I just tried!
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Some of my software development rules

Here are (in my opinion) five of the most important ‘rules’ in software development.

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I hate printers

1. Why, when one color has run out of ink, you can’t print anything!?
2. Why does a pencil cost $0,50 and does an ink-cartridge cost $30,-?
3. Why does a pencil still work after 5 years and is an ink-cartridge completely dried up?
4. Why is a new printer (including ink cartridge) sometimes cheaper then a seperate ink-cartridge (crazy!)
5. Why do printers eat paper for lunch?
6. Why is printer-software so invasive? What happened to a simple ‘driver’
7. Why does most hardware run perfectly under Linux, except printers?

Screw this, I’ll just mail my report instead of printing it…

Printer-bashing comic: Why I believe printers were sent from Hell

What if your favourite movie was remade as porno

What if your favourite movie was remade as a porn movie? How would it be called, what would the title be?

My collegues and I were discussing this, and we came up with a top 10. We’ve also started a twitter hashtag.

Top 10

1. Shaving Ryan’s Privates (everybodies favourite)
2. The Curious Taste of Benjamin’s Bottom
3. Honey, I shagged the kids
4. Missionary Impossible III
5. Good Will Humping
6. Free my Willy
7. Legally Boned
8. I Know Who you did last Summer
9. Schindler’s Fist
10. Cliff Banger

Honourable mentions

And some honourable mentions to the titles that just didn’t make the list:

• When Harry ate Sally
• Saturday Night Beaver
• Spankenstein
• Swollow Hal
• Sorest Rump
• Bangs of New York
• American Bangster
• Thighs Wide Shut
• Citizen Came
• The Green Milf
• The Porn Identity
• Crouching Woman, Hidden Camera

Does my car hate me?

Why does my car do this to me? It bugs me everyday. When I drive with the snow outside I have to use my windscreen washer quite a lot. When I pull the little lever behind my steering wheel it spurts a jet of antifreeze/washer fluid onto my screen and it starts to wipe for about 10 times. Then it stops… my window is clean again!

But after about 15 seconds it does one final sweep… and this last sweep always leaves ugly marks!

Why do cars do this!!!? First it cleans my window perfectly, and then spoils it!

Update:
A collegue adviced me this: If the car has just finished wiping, quickly switch on the manual and stop it. This will still cause one extra wipe, but it comes right after the others. This produces a slightly better result.

I tried this two times on my car (a Fiat Bravo) and it worked one time, the other time it still did the final whipe after around 10 seconds.