I miss Adam and Wil on TripleJ’s breakfast, the new guys really don’t cut the mustard.
But the one interesting thing I have heard them deal with is the debate about “Tom Price”, the mining town in WA. Who was the person who actually discovered the Iron Ore there? Was it Lang Hancock, or Bill Burns and Ian Whitcher?
Not that I really care, but this was only 40 or so years ago. There are people who are still alive who were involved in the discovery. So why is there so much uncertainty about what happens?
It really makes me wonder how much of ‘ancient’ history is true. How accurate were the records from 1914-18, let alone hundreds or thousands of years ago? How do we know we haven’t had the wool pulled over our eyes about thing in history?
I mean, Pythagoras didn’t really discover that theorem (the Egyptians knew about it all along), and Aristotle’s 4 humours held back medicine for centuries! Similarly with the 4 elements and general science. And Fraud (intentional error) just made his results up, yet they have been treated as gospel.
Don’t get me onto gospel!
I don’t get blogs. They don’t say anything. Everyone is trying to get their 15 minutes of fame by typing 3 paragraphs onto the web. I’m only on this blogger’s site because I was searching for information about iTunes.
Blogs have polluted the web. Now, every time I search for a topic, most of the links send me to blogs. I want real information, not some blogger’s thoughts on the matter. How boring.
3 months, 3 weeks after the fact.
You searched for iTunes, and typed in a comment on a post with nothing to do with iTunes.
Yes, blogging is a way to put up info that other people might not find interesting, or need. But I hope that some of what I post is interesting, and useful. Like most of my stuff about iTunes, it may be useful for someone writing software that interfaces with iTunes, or for an end user wanting to have more control over rating.
Most of what I read in the local newspaper is boring, and just a waste of time. It seems like the people writing just want their 15 minutes of fame.
But I don’t have to read what they say. At least the majority of the stuff is free - I don’t have to pay to hear a random guy’s thoughts. And occasionally, I find a person who’s thoughts are interesting, and relevant to what I want.
Oh, and you searched for “How accurate is the iTunes Counter?” on Google, and yet you clicked on a post titled “How accurate is History?”
I know that it was Google hit #9 for that query, but perhaps looking at some of the other hits might have helped you.
And I don’t think the iTunes counter is inaccurate. Each time I play a song, the played count increments. As long as you listen to the end of the song. If you skip to the next song before the end, it doesn’t count as a play.
3 months, 3 weeks after the fact.