i can’t add some mp3s downloaded from internets to itunes, they were valid mp3s and can be played by any other programs, only itunes can’t treat it right.

after some googling, i found this is a problem of id3 tag, mp3s with wrong id3 tag can’t be imported,  even in a half-broken way. (wrong or invalid character encoding, i guess) i strip tags using stripID3, downloaded from here and now i listen to mp3s ! thanks greg!

though its latest release is 7.4.2, itunes still has some bugs, very critical ones for me. i think this is the policy of apple. they don’t show much interest in fixing annoying bugs, that probably takes too much development resources. they only pay attention for adding new features,and if there’s new one, they don’t need to worry about previous bugs, because there will be new bugs, too.

anyway, i can’t live without itunes!

i faced some strange problem today.

i tested TableKit and it didn’t work in IE.
i tested everything i could and finally found the reason.

if meta tag is not included, this script doesn’t work.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

i don’t know why..  i can’t understand at all..
there are a lot of strange things in the world

grand hyatt bali, originally uploaded by lazy fri13th.

from 6.2 to 6.5, i rested here.. it was a cool resort, though not the best in bali.. i think bali is really cool place, if you are ready to relax and enjoy and spend some money for those.

japanese tourists are treated as special case in bali or any other eastern asia.. many shops and servers suggest 2 or more expensive price for them.. you’d better not to use japanese, even if you are quite fluent in japanese.

a-bomb dome in hiroshima, originally uploaded by lazy fri13th.

it may be very exciting experience to decide to kill 200,000 unarmed people, by just one drop. i really envy you, it occured only twice in human history!

this structure is the remained of that day. it was sunny winter day..

the author of this books is the main developer of flickr, the most famous site in the world. i’m very fond of flickring way, i also love this book. the main topic is creating large scale service with php, mysql, apache, etc.. everybody want to know about it, but there’s so few book for that.

there’re full of great topics i’ve wanted to know. from i18n, security to network, db tuning.. i learned much and i’ll apply those to my next projects. thanx, handerson!

winter sky, originally uploaded by lazy fri13th.

unclear and shining winter sky before christmas eve. ski was not fun. in this year it’s a warm winter day and too little snow around here.

it’s a season’s greeting card for you.

Early Winter Hai-Ku, originally uploaded by krisbasan.

although it’s not my pic, i made a real haiku for this..
maybe i waited for winter too much…

winter came in
light blue birds
moon on the tree

what i want is just get some urls in my html, so i search the cookbook, and get some really weird codes using xml parser -_- it can’t work right, actually it shows fatal errors when the tags are not valid (are you kidding me? is it a some kind of bad joke?) so i change it like this

urls = htmltext.scan(/href="(.*?)"/)

urls.each {|u| puts u[0]}

this oneliner  is surely enough to my purpose.

hey, i don’t know exactly what the ruby cookbook was intended to.. but it’s not the way going right..

night maple in eikando, originally uploaded by lazy fri13th.

autumn in kyoto is very special. it becomes the most beautiful place in japan. if you haven’t experienced it, i strongly recommend.

yonago port, originally uploaded by lazy fri13th.

i still remember what you said about the eclipsed moon..