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...mail like the bluebird of low self-esteem. A hit-count list of the previous day's articles, it would range from tens of thousands (say, a cover story on a sex scandal) to a few thousand or less (say, mine). The writers' room in hell has a similar setup. There's nothing to make you question your career goals like discovering that your take on the post-Tina Brown New Yorker was empirically proved to be 10 times less interesting than Jennifer Lopez's butt. I'd jokingly ask friends to read me twice, at home and at work...
...when the team absolutely needed a goal, no one consistently stepped up. Primm seemed a bit shaky, and the upperclassmen just could not find a shot, or camped out behind the net looking for a setup, not a strike...
...thing that did bother me, however, was that Real.com which installed its popular streaming video software as part of the setup, had the temerity to crawl into my browser and change the settings. The program replaced my home page (which I had designated as google.com the search engine) with the address of its own site. Bad, Real.com bad! I fired off an e-mail to someone at LogiTech, who said other people had complained about this too. LogiTech says Real is going to quit...
...last time I tried to set up a wireless network at home, both my PC and, worse, my wife's crashed. The technology, happily, is much improved. Dell's system comes with a CD-ROM that has a video-based setup tutorial that, among other things, explains--as well as shows--how to put a PCI card into your desktop machine. Once installed, the network performed smoothly and without glitches. I can't wait to start using it at the coffee shop...
...screens next to the main stage. Maddeningly, the footage was purposefully grainy black and white, no doubt because it's artsier that way. From what I could make out, Lunar Plexus didn't seem very electronic at all; for some of their songs they used a typical rock setup of drummer, guitarist, bassist and singer. On the others the guitar player switched to keyboard. Though front woman Karen Ellis was charming enough, the overall effect of the band's sound was one of indecision - not enough melody to qualify as popsters, not enough beat to make any audience get down...