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Am away till September 4, but I might send some pictures to my Flickr account and will probably Twitter too.

Or maybe you’ll spot me on one of the Nice webcams.

While I’m gone, here’s something to keep you occupied: on the 28th (that’s Tuesday) you should be able to download a lovely mp3 of the classic ‘Singing in the Rain’ (as interpreted by GF) from Lemonland.net. I’ll link to the news item, but you may have to go to the site’s front page to find it.

I’m not sure if it’s a one day only download or whether they’re going to keep it up there, so I’m going to try to download it later today if I find a good internet place in Nice. If that doesn’t work I’m going to have to rely on one of you to do the honours for me.

As always, Mr Friday cuts right down to the heart of the lyric.
(mp3, 7mb)

This has been bothering me all weekend. I have some MP3’s at work, a full (recently released?) album by a band whose name I can’t recall. I’d never heard of them before, but they may have been around for a while. My colleague passed them on to me. I went through all the Pitchfork reviews and current charts yesterdat, but couldn’t find them. I don’t know anything about the band and haven’t heard the songs enough to say anything about them, but their singer sounds a lot like Tom Jones. I think they’re British, but they might not be. I think their name sounded a little odd or funny, in that it didn’t fit with the music they played. I could wait till tomorrow to find out, but maybe you can tell me right now.Update: Duh. Remembered I can access work mail from home, found the original mail with the download link. The band is called Electric Six . If the Scissor Sisters played rock music, that’s what they sound like.

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3 AM on a Fridaynight. I’m tired and click a link to download an mp3. I get a popup screen that tells me that in order to use this service, I must install an ActiveX control. Yes or No. I click yes.

1 AM on a Sundaynight, I’m still trying to remove the oodles of spyware that wrecked my system, of which IST ist.bar is the main aggressor. Ad-aware, Spybot Search & Destroy, HijackThis and Microsoft’s new anti spyware software (beta) are all initially powerless.

But I think I’m in the clear now. How did I do it?

The IST software shows up in XP’s ‘add / remove software’ control panel. Duh.

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“Of course you may not have a membership.You can browse many information without membership. But it is recommended that you gain a membership in order to enjoy advantage in using our website.”

North Korea has opened ‘Naenara’, its first web portal, where you’ll find everything you’ve always wanted to know about the Democratic People’s Republic. Register to sing along to the song of Kim II Sung (“So dear to all our hearts is our General’s glorious name”), listen to musics, download Kim Jong’s favourite mp3’s (‘Loving Smile’, ‘I long for it’) and watch Korean movies.

“The DPRK practically guarantees the people genuine political freedom and rights according to the fundamental requirement of the Juche idea for enhancing man’s independence and creativity in every way.”

Aw, bless!

Broadway theatres are dimming their lights tonight at 8pm.

I suggest we all open our windows and holler in honour of the man:

“Steeeeeeelllaaaaaaaaa!!” (mp3)