doodledee

Every once in a while I'll hear a song on the radio or TV or even over the PA at Home Depot and it'll trigger the following thought process:

1. Hey, that's kind of a fun song.
2. I'll have to download it.
3. I haven't eaten at Arby's in a long time.

Being a doof, I typically forget to download anything when I get home. If I'm lucky, I'll hear the song again and think to write a note on my hand reminding me to take care of it next time I'm sitting at a computer. Even then it's probably only 50/50, though.

For a long time I used morpheus to download stuff, but it got shut down and I switched to this freeware one named gnucleus. Morpheus came back pretty fast, but it was all crazy with spyware and ads and stuff, and seeing as gnucleus was working fine, I had no interest in switching back.

Over the last few months, gnucleus has started to suck. It takes forever to connect and, once you do, it's nearly impossible to get anything. The cause is simple: the system is getting hammered. People are crazier than ever for their mp3s. (Attention moron record companies: keep trying to find a business model that works with the internet. Methinks there's a wee bit of money to be made.)

Fortunately, a new P2P architecture is being introduced that should alleviate some of the growing pains people are currently dealing with. Unfortunately, from reading the developer boards, it doesn't sound like it's going too well. Until it's fixed, we'll all have to keep dealing with stupid slow searches and tons of failed downloads.

Until it's resolved, you'll just have to struggle like I did to find a good copy of Shake Ya Ass. (Well, ok, that and Ice Cream, but don't tell anybody about that one.)

Watch ya self.