PC vs Mac

Have you seen these Apple ads featuring Mitchell and Webb of radio and TV fame? Quite funny ads but somehow for me they end up backfiring - in the sense that they make me prefer the PC. They are supposed to make you think that Macs are just cool, relaxed and very competent, whereas the PC is nerdy and riddled with conflicts and problems. But I must admit I end up preferring the PC. The Mac just seems smug, but the PC, for all its problems, is somehow lovable. The ad is based on a wrong idea anyway: that the Mac is somehow for the home (ignoring all the offices - especially in media/creative businesses) which are full of Macs (I think people who consider themselves creative like to insist on one to prove their credentials!), and the PC is for the office - ignoring most computer-equipped homes which have Windows PCs.
So I was sort of thinking about changing to a Mac (I like the idea of running Unix under a beautifully slick user interface), so headed over to the Apple UK site - but then these ads put me off. Sorry Apple! This whole problem is brilliantly discussed by Charlie Brooker in this Guardian article.
Also check out the US versions of the same ads (same premise, different actors), they are quite funny too. The PC character looks a little bit more, shall we say, Gates-like...

Politics Schmolitics

I tried the Politics test at OKCupid - and here are my results. In their graphic mockup, it puts me right on top of Hilary Clinton, which is actually somewhere I wouldn't mind being...

You are a Social Liberal (65% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (23% permissive) You are best described as a: Democrat Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

So Long Longplayer

So Longplayer, the old record shop in Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells, has finally gone. A victim, presumably, of the gradual decline in high street record sales in favour of internet retailers and downloads. In its place is the scaffolding that Anke mentions in his blog post. With its neighbour, Camden Classics, it used to be a nice place to escape from the standard-issue high street shops all around it. Longplayer with a great range of music and some surprising obscurities to be found, Camden Classics to get a range of classical music, some of it pretty cheaply...
I used to go in both of them quite a lot, for a browse - although less and less over the years. Partly due to generally buying stuff from Amazon/iTunes, but mainly due to buying less and less music as I get older. I think my last purchase there was Daft Punk - Musique 1993-2005, the CD+DVD, which I was surprised to find there, but then the place is, or was, full of surprises.

My heavy music-buying phase at Longplayer was I suppose the early nineties. We didn't live in Tunbridge Wells then, but visited people who do, and I used to buy stuff like The Orb, Aphex Twin, and other weird electronic stuff, which I still listen to, not to mention a whole load of utter crap that I no longer listen to!

Do other people out there have fond memories of music purchased there? I know Bluebear does...