I think I first heard this song during season 7 of American Idol when she came on stage and performed it. The first thing I was impressed with about her was that, unlike Maria Carey and a few other women who'd been on that season, she was dressed rather conservatively, A lose fitting tan shirt with black slacks. Yes.. full length PANTS. No, I'm not one to really care much about it, but in today's age, if you DON'T dress like a two dollar hooker you are the oddball out. The tune was catchy, then she started singing. Popish with an almost rap sound to it. Other's have tried to sound like it but she really pulls it off because, well, you can understand her. Still manages to sound unique. Then there is the fact that it was.. I dunno.. upbeat and happy, but meaningful at the same time. Did I mention the song was damn -catchy-? It gets stuck in my head all the time. So tonight I hunted it down again and actually started listening to the rest of her music, and just wow. I absolutely love the music video for "Unwritten". So, for now, here are the lyrics for "Pocketful of Sunshine". Maybe I can convince quu to let me buy the album off iTunes (cause I think the music videos are included).

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I was following the
I was following the
I was following the
I was following the
I was following the
I was following the
I was following the
I was following the
I was following the pack
all swallowed in their coats
with scarves of red tied ’round their throats
to keep their little heads
from fallin’ in the snow
And I turned ’round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
and turn the white snow red as strawberries
in the summertime

I was following the pack
all swallowed in their coats
with scarves of red tied ’round their throats
to keep their little heads
from fallin’ in the snow
And I turned ’round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
and turn the white snow red as strawberries
in the summertime

I was following the pack
all swallowed in their coats
with scarves of red tied ’round their throats
to keep their little heads
from fallin’ in the snow
And I turned ’round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
and turn the white snow red as strawberries
in the summertime

~"White Winter Hymnal" by Fleet Foxes

My friend tatianamik shared this with me. It's a free software that keeps track of your library, very much like the delicious library software for mac. The awesome thing is that it uses your webcam, if you have one, to scan the barcodes. Even better, it's not just books. The different choices you have are: Books, DVDs, Music, Games. The only problem I've had has been with paperbacks, you need to scan the EAU barcode on the inside cover; the sandman hardbacks, it just wouldn't find the EAU, had to type in the ISBN manually; and a few foreign language books and movies we have.Rule of thumb is, if it's listed on Amazon, it should find it. Not only have I done all my xbox/ps2 games, but it even reads the barcodes on PC games. Haven't tried the board games but i'm sure those will work too. Doesn't have a barcode? Pull up amazon, do a search, and then use the inhouse amazon code to get the info in Libra. There has only been like two things I've had to manually type in entirely.You can tag things, add additional information (like where you actually keep it), and even have things 'checked out' if someone borrows something.

Following a link by tatianamik , i found my way to MakeUseOf.com and one of the first articles I find is about 13 useful iTunes Addons. I'm LOVING the fact that they have the iTunes Library Updater, though sadly it seems as if the author of the iLU might be discontinuing it. *sighs*

This is the guy who wrote CodeMonkey and the "I'm Still Alive" song (end credits for Portal). Anyone want to go?

Oh this is beautiful. When will the RIAA get a freaking clue and back off? Hats off to UofW and UofN for telling the RIAA to stick it.

Thanks to internetbrain for pointing this out.