The first is about archiving and preservation, neither of which the web is currently configured to do well (Dave Winer has some interesting thoughts on that – for example http://scripting.com/stories/2007/12/10/futuresafeArchives.html). At both an individual and a social level, the question then is, do I want to live in a world where nothing fades or gets lost. I go to some time and effort to make sure that my digital life is safeguarded, but that’s primarily for my benefit – I am under no illusion that anybody is likely to be interested in a hundred years, still less in a thousand. But in David Weinberger’s “Too Big to Know” world, maybe that doesn’t matter.

The second is something rather different, and I am not sure quite what it is, other than it reminded me of Woody Allen’s line, “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying.” Is the robot a way of creating the illusion of not dying by making a form of work immortal? Like you, I suspect the solution is to learn to live with death.

After years of great listening, I treated myself to a ZenXFi2. The sky has fallen. The product functions unpredictably. I am not going waste any time explaining … I am not a happy camper with the product.

Now.. to the holy grail part of Creative’s problems. I hatehatehatehatehatehate their Creative Centrale software. It crashes every time I even look at it. It loses my play-lists. It crashes on load up. It chashes on transfer. It stalls on tagging operations. It crashes on file editing. It crashes on deletion of files. It crashes on normal file organization activities. It crashes pretty much whenever I do more than one thing at a time without waiting a few minutes first. This must go back to when Creative acquired another music company. Obviously, Creative must have bowed to Sonic, and their stuff sucks. So, good bye creative.

I spent many many agonizing hours trying to keep believing in you . Bruce