it's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to push this button

This means essentially "No through traffic", but it's posted where there are no paths or anything, just (as you can see) this tree. No passage to the land of Faerie? No hacking through the bushes and leaping off the mini-cliff where a storm drainy thing empties into the river?

Meanwhile I'm reading this piece of horrifyingly bad badfic and I can't stop. Also baking banana bread. There's no feeling of accomplishment quite like the one you get when you smell something delicious in the oven...

computer music player woes

This is my angry face. :|

My problem is Linux music players. All my research suggests Amarok and Banshee are the most stable and functional.

- Banshee is more supportive of iPods (instant and effortless), but it doesn't recognise or convert m4as. Meanwhile, the collective online Knowledge Base seems to think it does, which means you can't find any support for it, just annoying posts like "It sure does, I just did it!" despite the whole NO CODEC error message and lack of useful Google hits.

- Amarok plays all the music but crashes within 10 minutes every time I try to build a playlist and I just can't hack that.

So am I going to have to download a completely separate program just to convert my m4as to the more lossy linux format?

noobface

Leon, the squishiest noob. Also the most cross-eyed. And the most mellow.