…and no, I am not doing the whole Dr. Evil-Mike Myers bit with my pinky. The joke was rather tired by mid-Summer 1997.
This landmark, okay trivial, event finally happened at 3:15 AM on January 30, 2010. I didn’t bother since I was busy and I felt that five stories in one day was enough. Then my sore throat blossomed into the cold I’m shaking off. However, my stream had an uncanny prediction power by the song it chose.
“The Last Laugh” by Todd Snider
It’s not very well known in most circles but there’s a string of lyrics telling people “I told you I was sick” on a tombstone. Reminds me more of some elderly people who think they’ll be vindicated in death.
Sadly, I should’ve hit this milestone several days earlier. For some weird reason, QTSS in 10.6 has this problem of the server saying it corrected the time which results in the stream stopping completely while the service carries on. Should I get the time, I need to submit the problem to the proper channels at Apple to investigate. Before you throw in your two cents, I already turned off the server’s ability to act as an NTP server.
So how long did it take to do this? Seven years, five months, 22 days, three hours and 56 minutes.
What’s the most played song? artist? whatever? I have little idea anymore. Maybe I can pique the interest of my friend Jeremy into helping me build a database to parse such information more efficiently than the past methods I used. The biggest obstacles are QTSS changing its logging patterns in 10.4, my hosting it on three different servers over the years and the major re-organization of the MP3’s locations sometime I cannot recall.
On to two million!