stringfellow’s thread

Sadly as it is now seen to be cool and good to be green, this has negative consequences.
Big companies use a token green/ethical front to give themselves credibility where they are still blatantly rinsing the planet/people.

e.g.
- Starbucks have fairtrade coffe, but they still use other coffee too and they still open up shop every 100 metres down a street, knocking out the little local cafes
- MacDonalds spend money on researching ‘green’ things, donate veg oil for use in vehicles and try and make their packaging degradeable/recyclable. Do they still cut down acres of rainforest to graze cattle though? Thats open for debate i guess (I don’t know all the facts) but its true that what they do as a company is get kids hooked on shit food, causing health problems and a support a culture of greed and corporate reliance.
- take any power company; investing in green tech is good, and these companies have the money to do good stuff in this sector - so why arent they pushing it harder and faster? Cos they still make a load of money from oil… and they will only make more and more as the demand/supply ratio changes… green tech will provide dirt cheap power - and there’s the problem, there’s no money to be made.

Stu just posted this which is another example of companies ‘greenwashing’ their customers into thinking they are all wonderful… from Marks and Spencer though, is slightly upsetting (although, they still use far to much packaging for their food too, so perhaps not surprising.)

I decided how its going to work from now on.

I’m not going to do any more falling in love.

Love is going to happen of its own accord.

It will find me through good friendship, not affection.

I’ll know because she will be the one who takes the risk.

No more risks.

This is like one of those new years resolutions… give it a month.

So Shtaggle has come on a bit since the last post.

Now, not only does it get tags from last.fm but it will also push your tags back to last.fm (so if you tag a track, or have tagged it before, but hadn’t tagged it on last.fm, the tags will get sent!)

Also, you can now register an account on shtaggle.co.uk and then you can have your tagging stats online (soon to become RSS feedable) - so, you get to see what you have listened to most per day/week/month according to tags!

Fixed a few bugs too, so its a bit nicer to use.

Here is the latest zip

PS- Sorry its still a zip and annoying to install… I can’t work out how to package appscript into it (there is a way, but I’m not so good at the build scripts to make this happen) and also, I can’t make a mpkg that works to copy the Shtaggle directory into your /Library/Application Support/ so I guess for now you will have to just copy/install things manually :-/
Sorry!
Chances are I’m the only one that is gonna use it anyway, so nevermind!