Urgh, did I have to do the awful pun in the title!

The other day I discovered the greatest music playing app in the entire world. It’s called amaroK, yes with a K, and it’s cool.

It has a great Wizard when you first run it that loads all your music and indexes it and so on. It uses an SQL lite DB in the back which means it doesn’t take forever to load like Juk does (’cause it’s scanning all your oggs).

I particularly like the “100 Random Songs” button, and the “Least listened to”, “Most listened to” etc. Even though I have 5 days worth of non-stop music sometimes I just can’t think of anything I really want to listen to. The random playlist is nice cause it just gets some music going and then you find something that fits your mood.

Did I mention it fetches cover art from Amazon? And Lyrics. And it can upload to Audio Scrobbler which uses the music you listen to to find other music you might like (and has a very good privacy policy).

Tops.

Yesterday arvo Tom and I headed up to Square Rock for a quick hike. It’s probably only 5 kms walk, which isn’t far, but given that we only decided to go for a hike at about 3pm it was far enough. We walked over to Square Rock around sunset, but we ended up camping on the other side of the ridge, looking over Orroral valley.

I wanted to try out sleeping under just a little green fly, the idea being to be able to travel lighter. It was a resounding sucesss, although if it had rained I might be telling a different story. It had the pleasant side effect that I woke up well before the sunrise.

It was remarkably cold for Februrary, although I was sleeping outside at 1450 metres. It warmed up a bit about 10am. After a seriously solid breakfast of muesli we strolled back down to the car. And I was home Northside by 1pm, with plenty of Sunday to spare.

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Spent last night at Tilley’s in the company of the Waifs. They were typically awesome, and owing to the venue I think I’d have to rate it one of my favourite concerts for a while.

The crowd was enthused which was cool, I think we managed four encores. They’re playing at the Canberra Theatre again tonight, so if you weren’t there last night get some tickets fast!