Brit People Rock

People magazine has a review of Britney new self-titled album (released today). They pretty much liked it except for Her feeble cover of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' 1982 hit "I Love Rock 'n' Roll".

It kinda makes you wonder how good of a music critic Chuck Arnold really is, considering he doesn't even know that the song was actually written and recorded by an obscure 70's English band called The Arrows.

Anybody's a critic nowadays. Nobody goes to critic school anymore. <wink>

Still Needs Tuning

iTunes 2 is quite nice. I really like the new crossfade playback and sound enhancer features. The equalizer is nice too. Too bad they kept most of the annoying bugs.

For examples:

• Double clicking a mp3 file in the Finder automatically plays it, but the next songs are played in alphabetical orders instead of shuffled. The shuffle button simple becomes ineffective. At least until the player is stopped and a different song is highlighted/selected.
• The Full Screen visual mode often closes and/or repositions the Finder's application palette and opened windows. Quite annoying.

And, of course, there still isn't an option to have songs played automatically upon launching… Maybe next version.

Anybody's a QA engineer nowadays. Nobody goes to QA school anymore. <wink2>

10.1

I've finally upgraded my PowerBook. The Finder is indeed quite zippier. The JVM implementation appears to be more compatible, and JARs are now double-clickable.

Applications still take forever and a day to launch. Someone obviously believes I have nothing better to do than staring at bouncing icons.

For some reason, they also expect me to scroll down a list of 1,042 songs in order to select "You Shook Me All Night Long". There simply isn't a way to type-ahead in any of the file open dialog boxes.

I guess "scroll, scroll, scroll again and scroll some more…" is Steve's idea of productivity.

I must think different.

Teaser

On November 6, 1975 The Sex Pistols made their live debut at St. Martin's School of Art in London.