  well, hooray: my mother offered to pay me ten dollars if i can remove these weird advertisements that appear every so often on her dell urlLink peecee . i tried urlLink ad-aware , which was certainly impressive in removing fifty to sixty files i can care less about but it did nothing to remove those pop up things.
i might give $1 to nigel because he suggested trying everything urlLink here ; surely something will work. we'll see about that. the most worrying thing, i suppose, is that altogether this impressive set up has found six tracking devices, and i am sure there are at least six more hidden somewhere inside. which is typical of the reliability that we have come to expect of windows, i must say. thankfully i have patient parents. well, on to more important things: a woman who once had an american accent urlLink now speaks cockney , which is bad news because we in asia have only just started to graduate to a half-hearted american accent. a pack of ciggies sold in france used to cost about SG$7.91 on average, now they cost about SG$9.33.
who says our fags are expensive? (they cost SG$6.20 on average, see urlLink this , and 44.7% of this six bucks goes into taxes, none of which is used to promote an anti-tobacco lifestyle) and the rio karma looks like a very very nice (albeit looking cheaply engineered) urlLink audio player . pitchfork's urlLink 100 top albums of the 90s . sonic youth's goo is at 80-something... and stereolab is ten places behind... and also on fifty-one. and when they release the top 20 tomorrow, i'll literally bet that two of radiohead's albums will make it... into the top five.
where's jim o'rourke (my prediction: 15) and christian fennesz (10) and gastr del sol (5? please? ) and godspeed (15)? even boc had one entry. mmm, anticipation. i have to go make coffee. bye. 
