So after spending a few days in Taipei for Computex, I was quite astonished by the overwhelming use of young female sex appeal to attract the attention of predominantly male electronics buyers.

There were more than a few vendors that used booth babes and dance teams to attract attention under the guise of product demonstrations and PR spiels. And beyond the vendors, even the Computex organisers had the Computex sweeties swarming the show. I didn't end up voting for any of them, because I didn't think it was the proper use of the young women's talents and ...

So the Songbird project released a new version based on the 1.7 branch. That means I'll have to download that branch and do some testing of compatability between the trunk support libraries and the 1.7.x Songbird code before I can release a new PPC Songbird to the world.

I currently have a mostly working trunk build (1.9alpha), but it's really not quite ready for prime time due to some issues with importing songs in to the library. I also have to do some work on the gstreamer qtwrapper audio decoders. By default the code ...