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I not so surprisingly got myself some more music, highlights are:

• Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart
• Hot Chip - The Warning
• Count Basie - The Complete Atomic Basie

Wonder why I haven’t gotten around getting anything with Hot Chip before, I strongly recomend that album.

On the coding front I’ve been working some on pekwm and with the help of IOError a 0.1.8 release is coming closer. GAL is progressing as well, mako rewrite is done and new CGI support is progressing, will rewrite the client to use GStreamer and GIO for playback of files over HTTP which is a solution that hopefully is more robust and tested compared to streaming directly into mpg123.

All in all I’m very much alive it seems, creating is living!

Due to reasons that you do not control, you might not have the possibility to make things “the right way TM” and are going for an alternate solutiuon.

This applies to all kinds of things but it brings up the question: “Who is to decide things are so wrong you should not be able to do them?”

Honestly I do not know what is a good idea or not, to force or not to force, but it sometimes indeed is rather annoying like right now when I had to compile my own version of smbmount as plaintext password authentication was disabled and not possible to enable via /proc/fs/cifs/SecurityFlags.

Regarding the post title, “Protect me from what I want” is a great song by Placebo!

Just been thinking about what tools to use for what tasks and as always I never come to  any good conclusions.

However, using the wrong tools for the job can cause major headache and reduce the productivity a lot.

Right now it feels like I am trying to fly with the help of a broken toothbrush!