[whiteperil] Sean: Hey You

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Posted by Sean:
Hey You
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   My computer came back from Toshiba this weekend, so I've been getting
   it back into something reasonably resembling the shape it was in
   before it went crazy on me. Can't quite get rid of all the crazy,
   though. You know how these things go--once you start installing
   programs and they start talking to each other, all kinds of bizarre
   things happen. I am now the proprietor of a machine on which
     * iTunes has alphabetized my Madonna songs after the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
       and before 10,000 Maniacs. This state of affairs is so plain weird
       that I'm tempted to go to the Apple store to ask whether Madonna's
       first initial is now assumed to come after Z in the letters or
       before 0 in the numbers and other characters, just to satisfy my
       curiosity. Maybe something wacky happened when I sneaked my tracks
       back into iTunes from my iPod, which was the only place they'd
       been backed up? But why only Madge?
     * no browser wants to open google.com or gmail.com. I've tried
       making a special permission in Norton 360, turning off the
       firewall temporarily, and using every conceivable alternative URL.
       Nothing works. Good thing Gmail Lite is around.
     * the brightness refuses to stay set at three levels below maximum.
       It reverts to full-on lightbulb-in-the-interrogation-room setting
       whenever I restart the computer. Now that I think about it, maybe
       it did that when I first bought the machine three years ago and
       I've just forgotten what I did to fix it.

   These modern conveniences--such a time-consuming chore to work with.
   Should be back as normal soon.
   (BTW, speaking of Madge, the [1]title of that new single captures with
   exquisite, if obviously unintentional, perfection the strident
   lecturing-schoolmarm tone she adopts when she gets going on one of her
   moral crusades. And please--no one whose personal dressing room and
   gym probably consume more energy per day than Sierra Leone should be
   preaching at us to...uh, actually, I'm not sure what the hell she's
   telling us to do. This is not one of her more incisive sets of lyrics.
   But of course I can't help liking it anyway.)

References

   1. http://www.wmg.jp/madonna/