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Listening to Los Romeos as I unrar, unzip, unace, etc. tons and tons of folders and files with my MP3 collection. I don't understand why people compress them, with space being so cheap for both drives and removable media.

The specific song is kind of a Spanish Pop classic from the 90's, Mi Vida Rosa.

I was talking about this (NYTimes article, requires subscription) earlier this week. Wall Street had the worst week in 5 years, scary.

Talked to Chip a few minutes ago about this project we might be doing, but it's unclear.

Windows XP quirk I ran into today:

- You do a search for, say, EXE files against a certain drive or folder, and results come up.
- By default, it searches within compressed zipped files, so your results are a mix of true EXEs and EXEs inside ZIPs
- If you try to select them all, and delete them, it gives you an (useless) incorrect error. It says that folder or drive could not be found, which is not true. As if trying from delete from a removable drive you ejected or something.
- You can actually delete them all, but you have to actually select the EXEs within zips one by one, and click yes to the confirmation prompt that comes up.
- Every individual deletion triggers re-search of the drive or folder that may last a minute or two if you were scanning through a large content store.

Makes sense, but it's not handled very elegantly. The interface should separate them out for you, automatically, and prompt you explaining it, and give you the chance to batch delete them, and optionally batch delete the parent compressed files or folders along with them as well.

Related, Hans bought a MacBook last week, so far he is happy with it. Using it for Unix development. I advised in favor, I know Doug really likes working with "his". I would have got one myself if it weren't because I already have this brand new slick mini PC laptop.

I did make it to Swift Hibernian Lounge, East Village, last night. Interesting Irish pub, I liked it. Very friendly staff. I will probably be back. Didn't stay super-late because I thought Bill would arrive early this morning, but he did not.



Backing up some Netflix disks now. I am behind. Had them all week, never got around to it.

Looks like a Spaniard, Alberto Contador, is going to win the Tour this year. It's not what it used to be, with the doping scandals and all. A shame.