Document Or Live?

Technology is Great, but Are We Forgetting to Live?

This article validated what I have been doing unconsciously all these years. On any given trip there was a feeling that I could have taken more pictures. I almost felt guilty for allowing the "big moments" of my life slip by without recording them for future reference. Well, turns out I had done the best thing with these "moments" -- I lived them.

For me there is always the danger of going into extremes. Hopefully this article will not prompt me to stop recording things altogether. Rather, I will learn to make better decisions about when to take pictures and to put down the camera.

CD Album Info

Today I dug up an old CD, I Don't Want To Miss A Thing by Aerosmith. The case it came in was previously stuck and wouldn't open, but today I managed to fix it. Having taken the CD out of the case I decided to give it a play on my laptop.

So I fired up Windows Media Player 11 and out of curiosity tried to retrieve the album info online. Usually I can't get the album info because I mostly own Chinese CDs. I thought this time would be successful because the CD is English and popular. Wrong.

WMP11 found the album alright, but its record showed only 3 tracks instead of 4 (track 2 was missing). Even WMP tells me my CD has 4 tracks, but it presents to me an album with just 3. How stupid is this?

After mucking around in WMP a little longer, I found the correct album in one of the last search results. It had 4 tracks! Except it had no album art. And the year was wrong (1989 instead of 1998, probably a typo).

So today I found out what crappy software/service MS was producing, especially since this tiny CD ripper will get the correct info first try, without any clicking or choosing the right album from a list.