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7 Comments so far

  1. John B. March 29th, 2008 5:49 am

    Heh.

    This reminds me of something that happened to me last weekend: I downloaded an updated copy of Windows Media Player and did or did not do something that made it my default music player (I had been using iTunes for that). When I realized that, I tried various methods, short of taking a baseball bat to the CPU, to either uninstall Media Player or designate iTunes as the default player. At first, when I tried the latter, I’d get a message that told me I did not have “enough” access to do that.

    “Enough.” Sometimes, it’s not the nouns or verbs; it’s the adjectives.

  2. Granny Annie March 29th, 2008 7:26 am

    Too true to be very funny. (But it is funny.)

  3. Stu Savory March 29th, 2008 11:47 am

    Funny! When I clicked on “try again” it still came up with the same error message ;-)

  4. Rain March 29th, 2008 2:43 pm

    funny

  5. Liz March 29th, 2008 4:18 pm

    I can believe it too!

  6. gerry rosser April 1st, 2008 6:22 am

    So I went to put some music on my Honey’s “3d generation iPod nano” from my Windows computer. Couldn’t do it, because I needed to “update” my version of the iTunes software. So, I did it, and went off to do something while that process competete (read War and Peace, lose 30 lbs., etc.). So what happened? The gave me Safari! How does this relate to your post? I haven’t a clue.

  7. Winston April 1st, 2008 6:49 am

    @ Gerry: Condolences. Actually, your experience has everything to do with my silly post. Everything is related to everything else. A car accident that happened last Thursday in downtown Sacramento has a direct cosmic connection to the radishes in my salad last night. I don’t have a clue or pretend to understand, but the connection is there. Beware those far-reaching invisible tentacles…

    Last week, one of my tech newsletters labeled iTunes and other Apple software as being no better than spyware because it brings other programs that you may not want or need, and often without asking. Bad behavior. Apparently, Jobs has taken a page or two out of Gates manual on “how to heavy handedly and unilaterally tromp all over the customers who have put you in a position to be able to do so.”