life, the universe, and donna

So last week on Lifehacker, I came across a nifty little tool called iSnooze. The idea is that it’s basically a little add-on that will turn iTunes into an alarm clock. Handy, now that my computer is in my room, and I am SO SICK of waking up to talk morning radio. Seriously, why do morning DJ’s TALK SO MUCH? I have my alarm clock set to the radio because I want to wake up to music. Not some jerkoff talking about what he had for breakfast. Don’t care.

Anyway, I tried it a few times this week, and I thought it was pretty cool. Worked the way it was supposed to, and since I have a wireless keyboard, I could leave it near enough to my bed to randomly mash it with whatever extremity was closest to set the snooze. Perfect.

There was only one minor problem: When you snooze, it restarts the same song when it goes off again. Since I’m a confirmed snoozer, this meant that on Monday, I had to listen to the opening bars of “Never There” by Cake approximately eleventyjillion times. It’s not THAT good of a song.

So, I did what any good nerd would do: I emailed the programmer who wrote it. And he wrote back in a timely fashion, explaining that he didn’t really work on the software anymore, but he might make a quick update for me… and to my utmost glee, I found this waiting for me a few days ago: I only did anything cause you made me laugh! I can’t believe I touched this code again!

See? I am funny, damnit!

I haven’t been home in the last couple of days, so I didn’t have a chance to get the new version, but I was quite tickled to see that this release even has my name attached to it. Go me.

I’ll let you know how it works in the morning. But for now? iSnooze.

Update: Not only did it work like a charm, but I was actually on time for work today. Consider that a win for iSnooze!