Apple. iTunes made it to version 9. And if you edit MP3 Tags, it a) cannot search in the whole database, but only can compare the beginning of strings, and b) auto-completion doesn’t like being overriden the second it goes into effect, but insists on its changes. Dear Apple, even MS manages that in Vista, the OS widely regarded as the worst evar (at least, until Windows 7 sees wide release).

Cisco. Their VPN client, for some reason, saw fit to change my proxy settings in IE. Without telling me about it. Nor changing it back. Lovely.

My fellow students at the Cologne Institute for Applied Science. You guys need to learn to read a clock, and look up “on time” in the dictionary. The whole day, people managed to be too late to classes. With 15 minutes of time to find the next room. And the campus consists of a whopping 2 buildings. Shall I draw a map, if you don’t know where to go?

Public Transport. God knows, the timetable and routes for the busses are a major source of annoyance. Good thing I don’t mind the weather in my neck of the woods, so I can walk the 2 kms, day and night.

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Looking for hints how to create MCE playlists for videos (for series, or all those screencasts you downloaded off of Confreaks), I found this: Video Playlists For VMC.

The gist of it is:

    In Windows Media Player create an .asx playlist of your videos (Under “Any Playlist” in the file type selection dropdown), and
    save it in Path\to\your\videos\Playlists (similar to the Music playlists).
    Done.

Navigating to your playlist folder, you’ll find the playlist, and MCE will recognize it as a video playlist.

For an additional gimmick, MCE picks up a JPG with the same name as the playlist as a thumbnail for easy identification.