Notes from a pedant

I'm not very good at keeping this up to date. I rarely have anything to say. In fact as I get older I notice that I have less and less news. In the last six weeks I can think of little of personal news (Christmas doesn't count) other than a very expensive phone bill from India, where Orange have very expensive charges -bastards (it is a lot cheaper in France). I really ought to know better, given where I work.

Anyway, this post isn't about roaming, but it is vaguely linked, in that it is a comment on technology. Actually it's not about technology either, but a pedantic point about music categorisation, occasioned by my iTunes and its inability to distinguish albums from CDs . It is made more irritating as I spend much of my day job writing about convergence (at the moment mostly for this).

As an example, consider as I am sure many of you will be able to do, the career of the Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band, one of my personal favourites. The best compilation of their work is to be found on a rather splendid (and very good value) three CD set called the Cornology. I dutifully loaded up onto my computer which cheerfully told me I had three albums, except I don't. There are clearly six albums on these discs (two to a CD) and it has taken many minutes to disentangle the album from CD onto my iTunes. When we can store all my music on the tiny piece of hardware that is my iPod, I don't see why this cannot be dealt with automatically. Similarly, albums spread over two CDs are not two albums. It isn't complicated.

I know it's a pedantic and anal point, but it has been irritating me for months. It cannot be that hard to fix. By the way, the new Bonzo's album is worth every penny and more. Buy it.