Phil:

Jesus, I'd forgotten what a complete mess dates in Blogger are. How difficult can it possibly be for them to get it right? Right on the comments page: Wrong for the ACTUAL BLOG:

G	IE Fucking 7 Insists that my Desktop is in Docs & Settings even though I have moved it.
	It's the only App that does.
	Remember kids that integrating the browser into the shell is essential to enhance the user experience
Phil	"beta"
G	Tossers

Phil	where's that miranda option for keeping the window the same height as the contact list?
	i can't see it in the myriad options
G	Contact LIst / Window -- RHS "AUtomatically resize window to height of list"
Phil	jesus
	thanks!
G	Steve Franklin wanted to use miranda until he saw the options pane ;)
Phil	haha!
	about once a week I think about your bonjour-plugin and what a good idea that would be for our department, but then have to change an option. ten minutes of doing that later, and i've forgotten again
G	You should use my one stop packaged miranda wiht just the ichat in and the options set to sensible defaults
Phil	the one that uses paths hard-coded to your machine? :)
G	does it buggery
	or maybe it does, i don't know

G: Shit me iTunes 5 looks ugly and out of place in windows

Phil: yes, i've not heard anything good about iTunes 5

G: Jesus the splitter between the left hand pane and the right is ONE PIXEL WIDE

FFS

Phil: jesus!

G: As are all the external borders

for resizing (assuming you don't use the gripper)

Phil: fucking hell

G: Use that on your laptop nipple

Phil: quality

Let's beat up on iTunes again.

When did it become acceptable to fuck with the menu bar? I've raged about this elsewhere.

Look where they've put the fucking menu!

In OSX land this new skin might be acceptable (but maybe not) since the menu lives at the top of the screen, not the app. In windows it just reduces the perceived draggable area.

And yes I know that you can drag the whole application, but that's quite non-standard too so you instinctively grab the top of the window.

Rubbish.

Whatever happened to "it just works"?

I tried to play some music off a colleague's computer today.

Turns out she had bought it from the iTMS.

So rather than playing some music, iTunes pops up this charming dialog.

The problems with this are just crazy. Firstly it's not my song, so how am I going to be able to authorize it?

Secondly the Apple ID it defaults to is not mine, or one I have ever heard of. Is it hers? Is it an example?

But mostly the problem is "if it's OK to stream your ripped CDs far and wide, why the fuck can't you stream iTMS tracks?"

It's like they don't want you to buy them. I've instinctively avoided buying any DRMed files, and now my colleague says she won't be buying any more either.

What a complete and utter fucking joke.

Are you sure you want to continue?

Wherein Phil and Gareth swear about the crapness of computers.