Friday, September 24, 2004


Accidentals


synchronicityIn my blog’s right sidebar, there’s a liitle icon that’s set to be a tiny thumbnail of an album I happen to have been listening to at some point recently. It’s just a dumb little applescript that grabs the cover art of the currently playing song in iTunes and scales it, then drops it in my image directory. It’s just a two line script that I run manually when I remember to do it.

The script is dumb… all it does is take the artwork and brute-force crams it into a 72 x 72 square.

All this is a roundabout way of saying that, when the script produced an icon that perfectly matched the Gill Sans heading above it, I thought it was pretty cool.


:: Dave Walker 16:51 (EST/EDT) [+]

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