To me, one of the most important things a piece of code (whether it's an 
entire program, or just a single routine) can do is fail gracefully.  If 
it fails, enough context and information should be given that you know 
why it failed.

iTunes is absolutely horrible at this.  Apparently, Apple thinks that 
"failing gracefully" means quietly ignore the error with no record of it 
being kept anywhere.  In other words, you don't even *know* there's an 
error.  Your only clue is that the expected result didn't actually 
occur.  Once you figure out there's been an error, you have no idea what 
caused it.

Talk about bad practice.

...Chambers

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