Load o’ Ballog

Air locks on airliners

Airliners should have airlocks, in other words two sets of doors. That way when drunk, violent scangers try to open the door mid-flight, they get the inner door open, the flight attendants close that behind them, and then they can open the outer door as wide as they want without compromising the cabin pressure.

Makes perfect sense to me.

Radovan Karadzic: healer

The story of the capture of Radovan Karadzic is all over the news.

Just to remind you, Mr. Karadzic is the former leader of the Bosnian Serbs and he has been indicted by the United Nations for war crimes and genocide.

What amazes me is that he has been practising alternative medicine in Belgrade. It seems he has also written articles for “Healthy Life” magazine.

A key feature of many “alternative” therapies is preventative medicine, so I imagine Mr. Karadzic gave his patients such advice as exercise regularly, eat plenty of fresh vegetables, avoid excess alcohol, stress and snipers’ bullets, try to avoid mortar fire and above all, if groups are being rounded up for massacre, it’s best not to be part of that.

This is where…

Lesbos locals lose lesbian appeal

Lesbos locals lose lesbian appeal

I’m confused.

Surely only about half the locals of Lesbos island had lesbian appeal in the first place. And how did they suddenly lose it?

I am disappointed with the BBC, though. They almost got the whole alliteration. They should have gone with…

Lesbos locals lose lesbian litigation.

My talents are wasted.

Dog rescues woman from kangaroo

It would appear that a dog in Australia came to the rescue of its owner when she was attacked by a kangaroo.

I can see lightbulbs going off over movie producers’ heads everywhere…

I’m sick of it!

I get about fifty spam comments a day in my comment moderation queue and I’m sick of it, so I have activated a plug-in called Challenge to see if it can keep the spambots at bay. Let me know how it works out, particularly if you think it isn’t working properly.

Wank Germany

Probably the kind of place you need to visit on your own…

Click on the image to go to the Google map if you don’t believe me.

Adding multiple profiles to iTunes

So more than one member of your household has an iPod but you only have one computer, so only one installation of iTunes. You don’t want Gloria Estefan’s greatest hits on your iPod and your wife/girlfriend/partner/flatmate doesn’t want want The Buzzcocks’ “Singles Going Steady” on hers.

Up to now, each time you updated your iPods, you have had to go in to iTunes and select/de-select songs depending on what melodies you wanted on your player what crap you didn’t. What a laborious pain in the arse, especially when you go in and find she has just been there and de-selected all of your songs!

Well, I am here to rescue you, but this only works for Windows users. As I don’t own a Mac, I don’t care about you Mac users. Nothing personal. I just have no feelings for you. You can try it though. It might work.

Step 1

Your iTunes libraries are held in the following location: “My Documents\My Music\iTunes”

Copy this folder…

… and rename the copy…

Now you have two iTunes folders and therefore two iTunes libraries.

Step 2

Hold down the SHIFT key… 

(that image is for any technopeasants out there)

THEN click on the iTunes icon…

DO NOT TAKE YOUR FINGER OFF THE SHIFT KEY UNTIL YOU SEE THIS DIALOGUE BOX…

Click the “Choose Library” button and make sure you are looking at the “My Music” folder.

You will see your original “iTunes” folder and the new “Her iTunes” folder…

Select your original iTunes folder and iTunes will launch itself.
Step 3

In iTunes, check all the songs you want on your iPod and uncheck all the songs you don’t want. Then plug in your iPod and let iTunes update it.

Now repeat steps 2 and 3, but this time select the folder you named “Her iTunes” and plug in her iPod.

Once you have done that, you are now effectively maintaining separate libraries. Now each time you go into your library, you will see that the songs you like are checked, regardless of what she has been doing in her library.

The neat thing about this is that when you copied your original iTunes folder, the actual music files weren’t copied, just the libraries that refer to them, so you don’t end up with two copies of the songs themselves. As you add new songs, they become available to both libraries. You can also have as many libraries as you want.

Don’t forget to back up your iTunes folders now and again.

There you have it, a quick and painless way to manage your libraries for multiple iPods. It’s actually not that easy to find this information on the Web.

You’re welcome.

Demographics

Gema gave me an iPod for my birthday, which was great.

However, when I went to register it, I found that I am now labelled differently.

That’s right. I am no longer aged 35 to 44. I am now aged 45 to 54.

If I wasn’t middle aged before, I certainly am now.The good news is that I am one of the youngest members of that particular demographic.

Got to look on the bright side. Isn’t that what people have to do more and more as they get older?

Teenager finds bat asleep in bra

Teenager finds bat asleep in bra

Usually my “Funny Headlines” category is for headlines that could be interpreted in a funny way.

But there is no pun in this headline, she really did find a bat in her bra, but only after she got to work.

I bet the bat felt a right tit!