I like tags. I use them a lot. I find the idea of going back to categories unappealing. Tagging reduces that “where does this belong?” conundrum as that usually arrises from having too many filing possibilities. I’ve been wanting to set up more detailed smart playlists in iTunes. Not just limit them to whole genres of music. For example I’d like to set up a playlist for songs that have a piano playing. As the piano can be found in many types of music I can’t use the genre ID3 tag. There is another way…

Use the comments to tag up the music, so songs with piano in them get the keyword ‘piano’ added, songs with female vocalists get a tag to that effect and so on. Then just create a smart playlist to check for these tags.

I'm a big fan of lists. For my web design projects I use Zoho Planner. Using the Stylish add on for Firefox I have setup a stylesheet for my lists to highlight:

• Important stuff
• Someone else's responsibility but I will need to check to make sure it's done
• On the backburner

To use it just install Stylish and paste in the above code. With some modification this code could also be used on Backpack.

As it's now been a week since we got the four Neon Tetra fish it was time to add some more. I got home from work today to find the O.H. had been out and bought four more. So now we have eight. The next step is to move to some slightly bigger fish, Angel fish maybe... depends on whether they will coexist with the Neons.

And I'm still pondering that fish webcam.

I was sat watching the fab four this evening when I noticed a 'something' sort of floating down one of the plants. I watched this thing for a while trying to figure out what bit of plant it might be. That is until it changed direction and moved back up the plant! We decided (by this time the O.H. had wandered over to see what I was muttering about) that it was a snail. In fact we have two snails in the tank. It would seem the Neon Tetra's have some new neighbours earlier than we had planned.

The four Neon Tetra fish have taken to behaving in an odd way. I think it could be some kind of pecking order shenanigans. Two of the fish are slightly bigger and one (or possibly both, I can't tell) has taken to 'nosebutting' the other guys, (or girls, I can't tell). The other fish then do some strange backward swimming maneouvre.

On a side note I'm thinking of setting up a webcam for the fish utilising the HTPC Mac Mini.

After setting up our aquarium yesterday today we bought four Neon Tetra's - the guy at the shop told us they were fairly hardy critters in spite of only being one inch long. The plan is to test out the tank with these four and gradually add more fish.

We've named them John, Paul, George and Ringo. However I'm not sure I'll ever be able to tell who's who. I was a little sceptical at first when the O.H. suggested getting some fish. After all you can't pet them or generally interact with them in any way, but much to my surprise I find them fascinating. I can quite happily sit and watch them for a half hour after work, it's quite relaxing.