Doug Mayer, you know, the Car Talk guy. Pretty cool, eh? I had to write to complain that I couldn’t listen to Car Talk online. They switched from Real Audio (sorta evil) to Windows Media Player (much more evil). I mean, I hate how Real keeps trying to get me to buy things, but I’ve been using their products for free for years. They have to make their money somewhere instead of just stealing it like Microsoft does. OK, so Windows is more like extortion than theft.

Most of the NPR programs are using Real, and I had no problems. Oh, well. You win some, you lose some.