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I’ll confess I was a skeptic about this whole Apple-downloading-music thing. But there was Steve Jobs up there on the big screen today, talking about iPods and iTunes and how ripping off music is all about bad karma. And of course, moments later we had iTunes 4 up and running and were listening to all the 30 second clips of music and stuff.

When you get four people standing in close proximity searching for and playing 30 second bits of music all at once, the results are rather interesting. Some would say, ecclectic even!

So I came home and updated my own 5G iPod and updated my iTunes and voila, I’m searching out my own ecclectic range of music. And what did I download (you knew I would, Steve…)?

• Let the River Run — Carly Simon
• That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be — Carly Simon
• Sweet Surrender — John Denver
• Lumberjack Song — Monty Python

Hmmmm Guess I shouldn’t have poked fun at Ron for downloading Phil Collins, eh?