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The world is too small. Way too fucking small.

Also, but unrelated, it too smoky and burny in this quarter of the country right now.

I was going to complain about practically getting 1st degree burns from riding my motorbike yesterday afternoon, but that seems a bit lame when friends' houses have burnt down and loads of people have died in bushfires this weekend. :(

The apocalypse came for some

(not my photo; from the "Readers photos" on theage.com.au")

Rhythmbox (un)randomness fix

The shuffle function in Rhythmbox has annoyed me for quite a while with it's apparent desire to keep playing me certain artists. It seems I'm not the only one who finds this, as there are bugs open against it.

There is an effective work-around though! Run this:
gconftool-2 -t string -s /apps/rhythmbox/state/play_order random-by-age-and-rating

Hurrah!