I use Exact Audio Copy (EAC) to rip my CDs because over the years I’ve heard countless glitches in CD rips I’ve made from my collection - EAC is a great tool for getting bit for bit perfect rips. When I put in a CD, my hope of course is that it’s in the freeDB database so I don’t have to type in the names of all the tracks. I’m a fan of a particular genre of A Capella music, typically referred to as “College A Capella”, which usually involves 20-something college students doing all-vocal versions of modern pop songs. At any rate, I bought a new CD (Best of College A Capella 2006) and popped it into the DVD drive and EAC happily identified it. It wasn’t until I was using MediaMonkey to embed the album art that I noticed that the artist name and song name were identical across all 20 tracks. I know it can be tricky entering in information for multi-artist CDs, but the odds of a group doing a song called “The Reason” and their group name being “The Reason” are pretty damn slim, don’t you think? Off to re-type a lot of information…

Thanks to the amazingly talented Darius Wey, I have a new, wider template. Two reasons drove this decision:

1. Wanting to give a better experience for the rising number of people with wide-screen, higher-resolution monitors. I still think it’s silly for someone with a big wide-screen monitor (1920 x 1200 for instance) to be browsing in full-screen mode because it negates the multi-application advantage, and most Web sites won’t scale up to that size anyway, but I did want this blog to fill more of an average-sized browser window (something in the 1000 pixel wide range).
2. The purely selfish reason of wanting to be able to put up higher-resolution photos because I think they’re nicer to look at. If you don’t have a high-speed connection, it might make things slower for you, but since this is my personal blog I don’t mind being a little self-centred.

If the site looks odd to you (things out of place), you should empty your browser cache or press CONTROL+F5 (on a Windows machine) to force a page refresh and things.