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…wtf? December 26, 2006

Posted by Keiran in : Holidays, Music, Technology , 4comments

My iPod is apparently possessed by the Ghost of Christmas Past, or something.

Whenever I purchased or burned new holiday songs, I made sure the genre was listed as "holiday" to make them all easier to find to take off the iPod/out of iTunes. When I added them to the iPod, I had a seperate playlist for just the holiday songs that it synced from, so I didn't have to search through my main playlist. Last night, I edited that playlist and removed all of the Christmas-related songs from it. I synced up the iPod, and it clearly shows there's only 767 songs on it now, about 230 songs LESS than there was one day ago. So, according to the number of songs, it synced up properly, and removed all the Christmas songs.

And yet, this morning? It keeps starting to play songs that are no longer on the iPod. Songs I removed. I'm more than a little freaked out, because I went through and deleted everything with a Christmas mention (I left one or two winter/snow non-Christmas songs, as well as New Years songs) out of the playlist, so I know they're gone. Like I said, the iPod shows that it deleted 230 songs. I have no clue where these are coming from. I guess the iPod doesn't want Christmas to be over with yet?

The days fly by, the nights could be longer December 21, 2006

Posted by Keiran in : Me, Memes , add a comment

I have done this quiz for a few years now, in various places. I imported the one from my LJ last year into this blog, just for comparison's sake.

2006 Year in Review Survey
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Blow off Auntie Em December 15, 2006

Posted by Keiran in : Miscellany , 2comments

Throw-away entry # 52468348: My name is not Kevin. I am not a guy. I will never ever be either of these things.

I do not understand WHY people have such a hard time spelling my name when it's already written out for them. I sent someone an email asking for further info this morning. My name is part of my email address, it's also the display name associated with the address, AND it is written in the signature in my email. THREE PLACES where my name is CLEARLY spelled out. And yet the lady STILL responded to the email and said "Hi Kevin" in her greeting. She even quoted my email, so she had all THREE correct spellings of my name RIGHT THERE in front of her. Sigh.

Yes, I know my name is unusual, and people will get it wrong sometimes. Especially pronounciation. But is it really too much to expect people to get the spelling right, when it's right there in front of them, they only have to copy it? Granted, I'm grumpier than all get out today anyway (which will probably come later in a locked entry), but it would still bug and baffle me if I wasn't grumpy. I can copy names when they're written out in front of me, why can't other people do the same with mine?