Got bitten by technology again tonight. I decided to haul out an old album I hadn't played in a good long time, Decoder by Cypher 7. Unfortunately it wouldn't play on the CD drive on the computer, which is how I listen to a lot of music these days. It has a software data track as the first cut, and the computer wouldn't recognise it as a music CD. Grrrr! This CD is from the early Windows 95 era, which likely doesn't help when using a computer with Windows XP. So it was off to the bedroom to unplug the portable CD player I run into my ancient Sony ghettoblaster and drag it back in here. Listening via headphones revealed something I never noticed before, that the portable is kind of hissy.