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Not Quite Genius

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Apple GeniusSo Apple released a new version of iTunes today. Version 8 includes a new feature called “Genius”.

Play a song, click the Genius button, and iTunes creates a playlist of other songs from your library that go great together.

This sounds like a cool idea, although I consider myself already pretty handy at creating smart playlists.
What really intrigued me was the new Genius Sidebar:

As you select songs in your library, the Genius sidebar displays songs from the iTunes Store that go great with it.

Lots of other people are, of course, getting paranoid about sharing their listening data with the Apple mothership, but I’m not. I’m thrilled if iTunes is going to start watching what I’m playing in order to recommend other stuff. Finding new music is one of my favorite things to do.

Unfortunately for me, it is a complete FAIL.

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Mrs. Robinson

Tuesday, July 23, 2002

Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel

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Bookends

Monday, July 22, 2002

One of the glaring signals to me that I’m much older than I think I am is that I can no longer easily distinguish events from my past. I was going to write about something and I realized that I cannot remember if it happened five or ten years ago. The very fact that there is even the slightest chance of me thinking that a decade and a half-decade are not too different is frightening.

[Update: My grandmother died on May 4, 2007. Her death was the direct result of the incompetence and negligence of Indigo Manor]

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Me and Julio

Thursday, December 14, 2000

Well I’m on my way / I don’t know where I’m goin’
I’m on my way / I’m takin’ my time but I don’t know where

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