What the heck is it with this eye-tunes stuff? I recently wanted to view a Quicktime movie on my Windows machine - and had to get the quicktime player on the machine I was using. But Apple.com wouldn't download a copy of the quicktime movie player, unless it could install Itunes as well. No problem - I let it install - but it started doing the same sort of nonsense that REAL always annoyed me with - setting all the default preferences for audio files to quicktime and wanting to make itself the default media player in my machine. Then to top it all off - when I tried to use Itunes - the site tells me that I need a US billing address to download music. Bah - where's my copy of Kazaa ++ lite?
Enough is Enough - The Sunday Journalist new e-mail
The Evolution of a Digital Identity If you have followed my writing over the years across Cole’s Notes or The View from the Plateau Substack, you know that maintaining a clean, efficient digital workflow is a core focus of my work. As part of a broader mid-summer digital decluttering and workflow upgrade for 2026, I am officially making a major structural change to how I manage my online publications and reader communications. Effective August 1, 2026, I am retiring cole.cooper@gmail.com from its role as my public-facing blog and publishing contact for Cole's Notes. Moving forward, all publishing, newsletter, and official media inquiries will be hosted directly under an new official email address: thesundayjournalist@gmail.com . Alongside this technical shift, I am standardizing all public publishing under my long-standing pen name, Mark Coleman . For the time being - there will be two contributor profiles on the main Cole's Notes profile until I update the publishing sys...
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