Meep’s Musings

Say What You Need To Say

Could I get there somehow

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Despite my rant from a few days ago, I have managed to get my hands on the mentioned bonus tracks (thanks to 12chen again!). They’re called “Goodbye (Demo version)” and “Pebble in the Brook”.

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Thinking it through

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

It appears the Corrs’ record company has finally, after a long and painfully slow struggle, decided to use this groovy new thing called “The Internet” to promote and sell the group’s music. However, they are doing a tremendously bad job: denying willing buyers the opportunity to purchase the product can hardly be called brilliant.

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Bad apples

Monday, September 18th, 2006

Gah! iTunes 7 is slowly driving me insane! Not only does it once in a while not connect properly to the music store (never a problem with v.6), it also stubbornly insists on having an icon on the desktop, quickstart menu and its own folder in the start menu. I don’t want any of those and have deleted them, but whenever I click on iTunes, it installs them again - every single freaking time X-(! So much for updating… not that I can see any improvement. It’s still slow as hell, a ressource-hungry monster and installs services I don’t need like the “iPod service”.