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iTunes/iPod problem

Is anyone else having a problem with the alphabetical listings on their iPhone/Touch? It's as if a letter gets "full" and the rest spill into the next group, and so on.... I've checked the usual sources, to no avail. Any solutions?

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R.I.P, Harry Morgan

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Lucinda Williams - New Album!!

Out next week, but you can listen to it here....

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/21/133840259/first-listen-lucinda-williams-bl...

(It's ok, it's legal)

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Top 100 Spotify tracks of 2009

Not what I was hoping for (No Horslips :-( ) It all looks depressingly familiar. So much for Joe Public expanding his/her musical tastes.

http://www.spotify.com/en/top-100-spotify-tracks-of-2009/

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Sports Personality, BBC1, 7pm

When can we expect Mr Lineker to make his first smug and smarmy (and unfunny) comment about Tiger Woods? I'll go for 7.02.

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Utterly Depressing

No, it isn't funny or wacky. Yes, I'm a grumpy old bastard, but this stuff has become extremely tiresome. The cynic in me says that the marriage was arranged in order to perform the side-splitting gag.
I hate everyone involved. Rant over.

http://news.myjoyonline.com/lighternews/200912/38905.asp

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"He looks like Keith Richards with a glass of warm milk".

I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned the excellent new series on Five USA - Breaking Bad. It got off to a flyer on Tuesday night. It seems it was also missed by most of the newspapers (too busy reviewing Spooks (again) and X Factor, perhaps?), although the Guardian provide a brief synopsis here

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2009/nov/04/best-o...

Definitely worth setting the timer on the Sky box.

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News?

The fact that this is on the BBC News website is just too depressing for words. The words "rats" and "ass" spring to mind.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8335793.stm

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WMA files to iTunes

A friend has sent me a USB stick loaded with Joni and Dylan stuff (ahem... is that legal?) Unfortunately, most the tracks are in WMA format and iTunes doesn't want to know. Can anyone recommend a *free* utility for converting to mp3?
I've tried googling, but all hits are at least 3 years old.

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Why should the blokes have all the fun?

It's in Flemish (I think), but the pictures are all you'll need....
(sorry if it's been posted already. It's new to me)


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David Simon speaks

Very interesting article on how he came to write The Wire. Damn. I'll just have to watch it all, again.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/...

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Dyson products - Genius or Emperor's new clothes (again)

I'm sure it won't have escaped anyone's attention, that the Dyson chap has "invented" a new device - the bladeless fan. I can't help but think that it's yet another (expensive) solution from Mr D in search of a problem.

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From the town that gave you...

The Broons, Oor Wullie, The Dandy, The Beano, The Sunday Post and My Weekly
I give you -- The Average White Band....
(note Hamish, giving it laldy in the kilt).


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The Spotify *Less Is More* Behemoth

All the LIMs in one handy container (you know you wanted it (oh, and I was bored)).
Sorry, David.

http://open.spotify.com/user/billyous2/playlist/3yMTb9hbdNqZqf1HLutB6j

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IT/ Hard drive help required

Last year I replaced the hard drive in my Macbook with a larger, 500GB drive. The "new" drive now won't boot and I've replaced it with the original. My question is, is there a device (cable?) which will allow me to connect the non-booting drive to the Mac, via the USB, and recover all the files (music, pics)?

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