wheees and woes (computer division)

i: how do you get a cd out of an imac when the spit-out machinery won't actually spit it out?
ii: my friend R came round last night from some tips on how to up his internet profile (he's a stand-up since only recently); i went through a few quite basic things and was feeling he had surely wasted his journey over to mine as they were all terribly obvious and lame, about creating a network of links -- plus the imac was being embarrassingly slow and clunky on like myspace and etc (and it et his CD an wonuldn't spit it out) -- but R was delighted, which made me realise that, just via ilx and lj timewasting, i am actually by no means the least useless
iii: i haven't yet got my spensive laptop up and running because i haven't had time to do it systematically -- and my plan was to make the imac my info hub, as it's plumbed into broadband already, and wireless the laptop off of it, but now there's a CD stuck inside it

"run away run away!"

Awesome closing para to today's editorial in cityAM*: “It would be tempting to pin all our the blame on the City, just as our 14th century ancestors held witches, foreigner** or leppers responsible***. That would be a terrible mistake. Bankers behaved stupidly, but they were merely the conduit for flawed economic policies. As the anger builds, we mustn’t lose our faith in capitalism.”

*The financial freesheet -- it was left on the bus i caught home after swimmin with v!ck
**all typos in the original!
**ie for the BLACK DEATH, which is the not-at-all panicky comparison the editorial kicks off with