I tried Napster yesterday for the first time in years. Napster was a great program I used a good few years ago to download MP3s. Napster soon became world famous and was then shut down due to the fact it was illegal to download copyrighted material.
As we all know there are now hundreds, if not thousands of ways of downloading music illegally should you wish to. I have chosen personally to now avoid such means. Maybe I have become a little paranoid from reading horror stories about “everyday” people like you or I getting £5,000 fines or worse for downloading the latest Robbie Williams single, but I feel with so many music law enforcement agencies out there to get you it’s best to move on to something safer. This is when I returned to Napster…
Napster is back (has been for 2 years or so) and is 100% legal. You now have to pay for your music. Not a problem, I have a generous collection of legal CDs and DVDs and do not object to paying for material. I pay £9.99 a month for which I have access to millions of music files and can download an unlimited amount.
The music files you downloaded are protected using DRM (Digital Rights Management) and can only be played back on your registered PC or two other nominated machines. If you chose to end your subscription all your previously downloaded media files will become unavailable. Bit of a problem but that’s the way it is (although if you look around there are ways of converting your protected music to standard WAV and MP3 files, you’ll need to search Google on that though, it is also illegal).
I think the £9.99 monthly fee is more than fair. Look at it like this, £9.99 a month is less than £2.50 a week – a price of a pint for unlimited music. Not bad huh?
They run a free 7 day trial, try it out, if you chose to cancel you simply call up ( UK number) and get to speak to a friendly American who will cancel your account and tell you to “Have a nice day”.
I got absolutely soaking today! It was dry all day until I left work at 5pm. Then the heavens opened and it absolutely threw it down, it was like a monsoon! It takes me less than 10 minutes to walk back from work but by the time I got to the front door I was dripping, I don’t think I could have got anymore wet had I gone swimming in the River Avon!
What made it worse is that I need new shoes, I’m planning on going into town to buy some more in a fortnight when I have a week off work but at the moment I’m having to make to with what I have… problem is the soles have holes in, not good if walking through puddles in torrential rain. Needless to say my socks were as wet as the rest of me.
Could have done with the boat to get home in
Anyway I am dried off now, changed into some dry clothes and am hoping that is just an old wives tale about catching a cold from spending too much time out in the cold and wet.
This evening I watched Dave Spikey’s new DVD from his live tour. If you have not seen him live you may remember him as Jerry Saint Clair from Phoenix Nights. I watched his original DVD “Overnight Success Tour” two years ago and found it very funny, his latest release is just as good. His observational humour is very similar to the hilarious Peter Kay (who created and starred in Phoenix Nights).
Without spoiling it too much for any of you here are just some of the many funny jokes in the show…
My grandma has just died, she was 93. She died peacefully. Was sitting in a chair, closed her eyes and fell asleep… dentist shat himself
My granddad is in his mid-nineties, we call him Spiderman. He’s not agile, he just can’t get out the bath
Cous Cous – so shit they named it twice
Have you ever met anyone who has poked their eye out with a stick?
The only time a guy feels like doing it twice is before he’s done it once
A typical “to-do” list left by a wife on a Sunday morning when she goes out for the day and you want to spend the day in the bookies and pub …
– Feed dogs
– Water plants
– Wash last nights pots
– Point gable end!
and of course the tale of when he asked a nurse to right click her computer mouse and she wrote “Click” on it… The myth every kid is told that if you piss in the swimming pool a dye will show it… A sneaky trick to get cards for free using Boots Gift Vouchers… And how he would love to run chavs over in his car (not kill them, just break their legs).
Very, very funny stuff!
I watched the Manchester United game against Lille this evening, another defeat and terrible performance which will lead their fans scratching their heads wondering what has happened to their once successful club
For me the problem stems back a good few years. They are not the team than won the treble all those years ago. Teddy Sheringham got too old and left, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s legs are f**ked, David Beckham (one of their best providers of the ball) was driven out by Alex Ferguson, Nick Butt is old and gone and the likes of Paul Scholes, Gary Neville, Roy Keane and Ryan Giggs are the OAPs of The Premiership and past it.
Ferguson cannot escape blame though. He has bought many quality players but still hasn’t got the results! Look at Wigan, tiny team, 2nd in The Premiership! No excuse Fergie!
Team Captain Roy Keane was right to slate his players after the Middlesbrough game, wonder what he’ll have to say after today’s equally pathetic performance? :o)
As a Leeds fan I’m loving this, when Leeds were relegated the official Man Utd website mocked us and posted pictures of a weltering white rose while their fans laughed and laughed. I said at the time “what goes around comes around”. Looks like I was right. Not only have they mocked Leeds but many other clubs in the past during bad times. They are now getting their just desserts.
In the post match interview, Ferguson sounded a broken man and close to tears. I have never heard him like this before. While I find the recent turmoil amusing it was unsettling listening. I think he should leave the club and the over paid, lazy players while he still has some respect left.
If any of you “Glory Supporting” ManU fans are getting fed up with your teams performances and want to make it all better may I suggest checking out this website. There’s still time to sort your woes out for Sunday!
Leeds played Crewe tonight and lost – what a letdown. To be honest though, having supported Leeds for some time I could see this coming. A nice run of unbeaten games, good results against the top sides of the division and then falling to the relegation fodder. It has happened time and time before and will undoubtedly happen again.
I was really hoping Leeds had turned a corner this time, would go to Crewe and beat them. The thing is, with the squad Leeds have this shouldn’t have been a problem. From what I heard (ok, just on the radio commentary), the Leeds players didn’t seem to care tonight. They are the ones to blame tonight. The strikers couldn’t score, the midfield was woeful and the defence pathetic.
For this result I refuse to blame the manager Kevin Blackwell. I have had very mixed feelings about him since he took charge but lately he has convinced me that he is he right man for the job as the results up until today have been generally good. Leeds play scrappy, ugly football but they are playing in a scrappy, ugly league where it isn’t how much skill you have which wins you games it is how much you fight for the ball. Leeds didn’t fight tonight.
Looking on forums like WACCOE and listening to the post match phone in on BBC Radio Leeds it just shows how fickle some supporters are. Most of them are slating the manager and calling for him to be sacked. Where were these people when we were getting respectable results? Nowhere to be seen!
Even if the manager was sacked who do you replace him with? There seems to be some arrogance with Leeds fans that any manager in Europe would love to be in charge of us. Wrong. If Blackwell was sacked it’s unlikely any decent replacement will be taken on, more than likely a character of Peter Reid’s quality.
The season is still young, Leeds are in a healthy position (5th with a game in hand). Very disappointing result today but nothing to panic about yet, roll on Saturday, the players owe the fans, the manager and themselves a good result against Preston.
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