I've been having this problem for a while, I have an album in iTunes, and it has the album artwork on display in iTunes. I put the album on my iPhone, but when i tilt sideways and view the albums in cover flow, the albums artwork is missing! Not even the default grey question mark! The name displays at the bottom of the screen with the artist and album name, and just blank above it.

I haven't been able to find any similar story anywhere on the net, nothing at all. I think I have found the cause of the problem. When I'm in iTunes and I select all the songs in the album together, and right click Get Info, the artist and album name are there as expected (because that is common information between these songs), but there is no album artwork! So I'm guessing that at least one of the songs in the album doesn't have the album artwork specified. So when the iPhone wants to display the album artwork, and it sees that not all the songs have the same album artwork specified, it chooses to display nothing. I have no idea if that is the true cause of the problem, but its the best i can come up with.

The Solution

In iTunes, select one of the songs in the ablum, and right click, Get Info. Check that it has the album artwork by selecting the Artwork tab. Right click on the picture (this took a short while the first time, not sure why), and select Copy. Hit OK or Cancel to get out of that. Now select all the songs in the album together, and right click, Get Info. In the bottom right corner where the Artwork display is empty, right click and select Paste. Hit OK.

Sync your iPhone and revel in victory. 

I was reading a funny article the other day which comes to mind now (Wired magazine), feeling a bit guilty my last post was November 2008 lol. I've just given away hecticrss.com cause I haven't touched it for 6 months at least, so I didn't really think it was worth the $4 a month to keep it anymore. Not enough hours in the day for me at the moment. The stats:

Uni: there every day of the week, working on our UAV, first test flight tommorow with our donated CyberBug.

Work: n/a. Nothing going at the moment, between K. Rudd's big package (hmm...), centrelink, and the recent bear market rally I'm doing ok.

Home: awesome, got a mate from Wagga staying for 4 weeks while he's on prac at Royal Brisbane hospital. 

You've probably heard this song before, I heard it again yesterday on triple j and really wanted to figure out who it was. Took me a while on google, found these guys, Empire Of The Sun. They're a new aussie group, the lead singer from The Sleepy Jackson, Luke Steele, and half of PNAU, Nick Littlemore. Awesome song and pretty cool film clip (shot in Shanghai).

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=zmM2RwlxGt0

The albumn is already out, $18 on iTunes. I'm going to JB HiFi today so i'll see if they have it there, sounds worth paying for.

Just trying out doing a blog from my iPhone, it's a little tricky, but I do like how it automatically corrects my spelling and punctuation. I have to write this in html cause the browser doesn't like the normal way. Well I guess if u read this, it all went ok.

This is hilarious, best thing I've seen in ages.

New End of Fashion song, Album comes out September some time, good stuff.

End Of Fasion - Fussy

This is the best collection of tutorials, guides, and samples of good CSS code i have seen yet. Worth having a look at if you ever plan on writing or even understanding proper CSS.
http://www.noupe.com/css/css-layouts-40-tutorials-tips-demos-and-best-practices.html

I was flicking through the tv channels yesterday, and a news program came up on bris 31. There was a priest on what looked like a normal news panel, i soon found out it was a heavily christian focused news program. The priest was asked about his opinion on a statistic that there is growing Atheism in academic groups and societies. I'm thinking at this point, thank god (excuse the pun) I’m not the only one. His first response was to agree that there is a growing trend, that highly educated people are not believing in all this god and holy power stuff. He then explained that this is a statistic used by certain groups to label and stereotype believers as the dumber portion of the population. He went on the explain that Jesus himself said that the highly educated can often miss the simple truths that the average man sees.

Can anyone else see the huge irony here?! The reason highly educated people don't go along with all the sensational stories of Jesus is because they know that they're just that, sensationalised. This is a book written thousands of years ago, originally in a language no one uses anymore. Even if it wasn't full of crazy stories of miracles and stuff, there's still a good chance the translation would have gone a little off down the line there somewhere. So there's this book of fantastic stories about a guy called Jesus, which this priest would have you believe, and he say's the reason you don't believe is cause Jesus said u probably wouldn't anyway! Your missing the point!

Don't get me wrong, christianity is a great religion as far as they go, and i don’t have anything against christians. The problem is the patronising fundamentalists who want us to believe that a man 2000 years ago walked on water and cured disease. Are you kidding me, we can't do that stuff now! I'm sure there's a great chance Jesus was a real guy, who had some great ideas about how people should live their lives, but that’s it, no one wants all the other crap that goes along with it. The moral and ethical issues that are raised in the bible are interesting, and do have relevance today, but people now see you don’t have to be religious to live with moral and ethical integrity.

I've never had an appreciation for organised religion, and i don't think i want to be a part of something that has so much to answer for in the worlds history. I don't think anyone can fairly say theirs is better than anyone else’s. Of course highly educated people are going to have a hard time commiting to a religion when all you hear about are magic and miracles. This priest is a perfect example of the reason for the trend, when his only explanation is "because Jesus said". Thats when you make the decision; do you go along with this religion thing and ignore the obvious dramatisations, or decide that maybe this whole religion thing isn't for me if they just want to try sell me these fantastic stories.