Finally!

As everyone probably knows, my computer is on the trailing edge of technology. It's an old Compaq Presario that I bought in 2001, loaded with that sorry-assed Windows Millenium operating system. It's been to the repair shop so many times that I can't even count, and it's had both the processor and hard drive replaced two times each.

In other words, it's a complete piece of shiat.

Confirmation of that last statement came several months ago, when I was using I-Mesh to download music, when suddenly they upgraded their system and it was no longer compatable with my computer. No more free downloads for me. Damn. So I decided to go 'legit' and tried to load I-Tunes on my computer a couple months back. No dice--it is beyond the limited capabilities of this computer. I can't even buy music!

All of this has been a complete bummer, because my collection of mp3's, which was somewhere around 700 songs or so, back in the day, is only about 250 songs now, and I had no way of replacing all of that music I lost in the last meltdown.

Sticky told me about Limewire, and I tried to download it a few times in the past, but again--no dice--my computer just couldn't handle it. So I resigned myself to the fact that I wouldn't be one of the cool kids with an IPod until I got myself a new computer that could handle the new music downloading technology.

Last night, while sitting on a dead game around 2 am, my buddy Todd was wearing a suit as a floorman, instead of being a dealer. My game was in his pit, so we were able to talk. He was telling me that he had to download all of his music again because his computer crashed a couple weeks ago and had to replace the hard drive. I asked him what he used, and he told me that he was using Limewire, too.

I told him that it's not compatible with my stupid Windows Millenium computer, but he insisted that it was--he has almost the exact same piece of shiat that I do. He told me about the download 'workaround' that Limewire has on it's site, so when I got home this morning, I tried it.

Voila!

I am now a downloading fool once again! I stayed up until 6:00 am downloading Christmas music, mostly stuff from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, including 'Wizards in Winter', the very cool tune that was featured in that beer commercial last Christmas where the guy had the lights at his house set to music. I also downloaded a copy of my new favorite song Somebody Told Me, by The Killers. Great song!

So I'm back baby--stickin' it to The Man once again. So that whole IPod thing is back at the top of the Christmas list again.

Mikey