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This is officially the most boring blog ever.  I deem it so myself.  I had decided to put a more professional face on this site and remove my personal musings so that this site could essentially become my portfolio and showcase of my work.  I thought I could also add useful content for other designers but have found that as a lone content provider, I am not so good.  I am quite sporadic.  These are a few of the thoughts I had before deeming this the most boring blog site ever.

I am re-thinking the flow and content of this site, not that it will matter because it seems like the only regulars around here are the spammers offering me “roleX repl1cas” and “member enlargement” but I thought they might like to know.  Maybe once they figure out this is the most boring blog site ever they will quit showing up.

So somehow I managed to delete my entire iTunes music collection today.  And yes, I emptied the trash.  See, when I first started using iTunes, I did not realize that when I added a song or album or any group of MP3s to the app that it made a duplicate in your “iTunes” directory so I had a lot of duplicated music sitting on my hard drive.  Today I decided to dump the duplicated stuff which happened to be in my “Music” folder, which, on a mac, is the same place iTunes stores its crap.  So in dumping everything in that folder and hastily emptying trash in an excited attempt to see how much space I had freed up on my hard drive, I was suddenly given an error message telling me the system could not delete the file “iTunes Library” because it was in use (iTunes was open).

My head still hurts from getting kicked by my own foot.  I tried getting some sort of recovery application to get the stuff back but they all wanted money!  After realizing I had about 85-90% of my stuff “backed up” (sitting on one of my external HDs from which I was too lazy to delete them) I said forget it. I was bored of the stuff anyway and I can get back most of the stuff I already had.  This might give me incentive to broaden my horizons a bit and branch out.  I had, afterall, just downloaded “Time To Say Good Bye” from Andrea Bocelli.  I remembered I had heard that song while watching the fountain in front of Bellagio in Vegas a while back and watching Ocean’s Eleven one evening reminded me of how awesome I thought that song was, so I grabbed it.

Anyway, stupid iTunes, cannot even protect itself from me.  Lame.