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The Dave Matthews Band says:

Please note an easier and more acceptable solution requires cooperation from Apple, who we have already reached out to in hopes of addressing this issue. To help speed this effort, we ask that you use the following link to contact Apple and ask them to provide a solution that would easily allow you to move content from protected CDs into iTunes or onto your iPod rather than having to go through the additional steps above.

Hi Dave And His Band, how about y'all quit kowtowing to Microsoft media formats, instead of asking users of what is probably the dominant media player to do something awkward? Ideally, you know, by simply not using inane copy-protection schemes, but heck, by using Apple's DRM instead of Microsoft's? (yes this is all rhetorical, in particular since I pretty much gave up buying CDs several years ago)

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I called into Doolin's new office today. For those of you not keeping up, Ray didn't shut the company down completely; he's currently keeping it running out of what I'm sure must be his own pocket in order to try and nab any business going in the hope of cranking things up again. The office is very dot-net-nineties, by which I mean it's a large, unpartitioned single room which the phrase "open plan" doesn't even begin to cover. It's not far from Google's office; I quipped that they could drop over and ask where to find things. The boss was having some trouble with his wireless card which noone in-office could sort out, so I had a quick look, but ultimately determined it's one of those wacky Windows things that requires a precise, illogical sequence of steps to fix and I didn't know where to start beyond ripping things out and reinstalling drivers, so I shrugged and left it. My main reason for calling in was that Ray finally set a price for me on the laptop I retained (the same one which ate its backlight) and I wanted to pay him before I forgot.

On the way back, I picked up an espresso and a shortbread slice at the DART station. Note to zadcat: the espresso wasn't bad, and defaulted to a double-shot. Of course, not being a coffee connoisseur, it probably TOTALLY SUCKED and was EXCESSIVELY WEAK and I didn't notice.