Jul 17 2005

MSN Spaces alphabetised my playlists

category: using things
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And I’m annoyed.

I spent several evenings using WMP 10 to create 3 stories using songs.  I carefully ordered the songs to tell the stories.

When I uploaded the playlists to MSN Spaces it decided that the songs should be ordered alphabetically. 

If you surveyed music lovers would you discover that ‘alphatetically’ ordered songs is the most popular way to arrange playing them?  

NO, no, no….  

I suspect it is the easiest way to write new code to arrange them. 

Lazy, lazy, lazy

Both MSN Spaces and WMP 10 are Microsoft products.  WMP has the code to create and maintain a song order.  Why didnt they give that code to MSN Spaces?  Why can’t they manage to be functionally equivalent?  Failing that,  they could have at least warned me not to spend the time to use one product to create a story that couldnt be maintained by another product.  A nasty suprise. 

Feedback = Poor show Microsoft, with one silly implementation decision you’ve undone a lot of thoughtful,  time consuming work on my part,

Disappointed Wendy


Jul 17 2005

Truck Stop

category: on the road

Saturday on the Northwest coast was overcast. Rainy. I went is search of sunshine, drove east through the fabulous cascade mountains. For breakfast I stopped at a ‘Truck Stop’. The car park was full of Trucks and pick-ups. The cafe cooked me a fabulous omelette sandwich. Sunshine filled the sky. Life happening, people moving on and eating. It felt good.

Wendy-on-windy-roads




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