I wrote before about amarok and how cool it is. At the time I was holding off judgement on the audioscrobbler integration.

As it turns out Jeremy has beaten me to it.

So far I think it’s pretty sweet, and looks promising as a way of discovering new music.

Amarok provides the “Now Playing” image on the sidebar of this page, and if you click it you’ll be taken to my audioscrobbler page which displays what I’ve been listening to.

For the tin-foil hat brigade their privacy policy looks pretty solid, to sign up all you need is a username, everything else is optional.

Spent the weekend at the always lovely North Head. Saturday was hot and humid, nice swimming weather. The sea was flat as a tack which was lovely, just floating around.

Ben and Jenny brought a snorkel which we mucked around with in the rock pool, it was awesome. There’s not exactly a barrier reef down there, but still some fish and stuff, and it’s just cool being able to see under water.

Saturday evening saw a bit of rain, but nothing major. Later on we started a fire and cooked some snags and so on. Gilby made a top beef curry kinda thing, some of which he kindly leant me.

Sunday was a bit rainy, and generally cold. We just sat around the fire and ate mostly.

During the afternoon I had a bit of a brain fade and managed to mince my hand up rather badly on a rope swing. Catherine reckons it’ll be alright, but at the moment I can’t feel my right pinky quite right, it’s like I’ve permanently got pins and needles. Make for interesting typing.

Got home about 6 to find Alli settling in on her return from Mexico. Good to have her back, although she did get up me about the state of the house pretty quickly!

I’ll have to downgrade the weekend from throughly excellent to excellent though, based on my discovery this morning that I’m actually the owner of a fine collection of grass ticks – argh!

Photos thanks to Ben C!

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