Rants About Software

I recently started using Pandora, and so far, I love it (especially since Sirius got rid of the Punk Channel)! So I was listening to Pandora at the work the other day when I noticed that someone apparently made this data entry mistake...

Obviously "All Hallow's EP" by AFI is not the same thing as the "Winning London" soundtrack.

The thing that's weird about this is that it used to display the correct image. So apparently someone at Pandora was doing some data entry and somehow managed to screw up a record somewhere. I guess it's understandable, but it's still annoying. Oh well.

By the way, you can check out my Pandora profile here.

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As you may have heard, on New Years Eve, 30GB Zunes everywhere stopped working. That's it! They just stopped working! When this happened, Microsoft's solution for the problem was to simply "do nothing". The next day, the Zunes were all working again.

Weird, huh?

So What Happened?

The Zunes all "fixed themselves" on New Year's Day, so that would lead people to believe the bug was somehow related to the new year (Y2K arriving late?). Close, but that's not quite it. Instead, the bug actually occurred because the Zune's software didn't properly handle our extra day this year.

The source code for the problem at hand has been released and you can download it here for your own personal enjoyment. I have to warn you though, the code does contain goto statements.

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