Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

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?

Recently Forwarded to me - but of interest to all Customer Complaint What follows is a superb example of British humor in A LETTER THAT WAS TRULY WRITTEN AND SENT. The piece suggests two things: 1) Americans and Canadians are not the only ones who get poor service from their ISP, cable and/or alarm companies. (NTL is a cable operator in Britain). 2) The Brits probably write the world's best letters of complaint. Dear Cretins: I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up for your four-in-one deal for cable TV, cable modem, telephone, and alarm monitoring. During this three-month period I have encountered inadequacy of service which I had not previously considered possible, as well as ignorance and stupidity of monolithic proportions. Please allow me to provide specific details, so that you can either pursue your professional prerogative and seek to rectify these difficulties --or more likely (I suspect) so that you can have so...

Iraqi police: Saddam’s around Tikrit Maybe he's bleached his Body and is calling himself Sven Olafsven. Check for the guy with the Toledo Mudhens baseball shirt.......

NATIONAL POST Excellent - the Screwtape letters updated. And my BLOG re-activated.

I listened to it - neat - but the THX sound is neater altvw104

NATIONAL POST The sound of the "Big Bang" as interpeted to human hearing. Hear the clip at http://www.npl.washington.edu/av/altvw104.html

NATIONAL POST : "When it comes time to consider Paul Martin and his pack, remember this very real fact: Ours is a government that, with a multibillion-dollar budget surplus, sent two fundamentally useless women and their flatterers on triumphant Grand Tours and sent two men to their death in worn-out vehicles, while 778,000 Canadians used food banks. That's their record. That's why we're depressed. And that's why we welcome any glimmer of hope. enickson@nationalpost.com" She's more optamistic than I am - the new "Right" being formed doesn't offer that hope to me - I just see more of the same incompetence.