I tend to listen to internet radio at work, and because I am a bit of loser at heart I quite like Virgin. Most of what they play is pretty drekky, but every so often they’ll come up with a real corker. For example they just played the full version of ‘Good Vibrations’ by the Beach Boys, which is undoubtedly a masterpiece. Unfortunately, they followed it by that irritating James Blunt fellow, not quite so masterful. But now they’re playing Bob Marley, and that is just fine by me.
Enough about my lousy taste in music, let’s get back on track. They upgraded their player last week and for some reason my computer just spat it back at me. After many frustrations the only way I could get it to work was to download their toolbar and launch it from that. This toolbar has a built in pop-up blocker (fairly handy) and an Ask Jeeves search bar (totally useless).
Virgin’s player opens in a pop-up window, so it gets blocked every time I try and open it. That entertained me somewhat.
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