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Waiting for our food to arrive, the four of us sat at the wooden table, two to a side: Boy, girl, boy, boy.

As I was leaving Maxwell's last night, I ran into <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/092805withloss/">Melissa</a&gt;.

"I was at Maxwell's last night for no more than three hours, and it made me terribly sick."<br>
"<a href="http://www.maxwellsnj.com/">What’s Maxwell's?</a>" JA asks.<br>
"Oh," I say, "It's a rock and roll club in Jersey."<br>
"Thank you for assuming that I'm hip."<br>
I laugh. "I’ve become so <a href="http://www.niehs.nih.gov/airborne/prevent/smoke.html">allergic to cigarette smoke</a>. I woke up this morning coughing blood, and I've got a horrible headache now."<br>
"You must have some insect genes."<br>

Rarely does a day pass when Wes Phillips doesn't send his pals a bunch of emails with links to stuff he's found while Web surfing. Frequently it is audio-related, but even when it's not, there's usually something there worth checking out.

Hey, it's only streamed audio, but Public Radio Fan is easy to navigate and offers lots of variety.

A criticism often hurled at audiophiles is that they're willing to spend money on tweaks that defy common sense and/or the laws of physics. How willing are you to try a wild idea for yourself?

On November 1, Window OS expert Mark Russinovich <A HREF="http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-righ…; that his root kit detection utility had uncovered the presence of some well-hidden, poorly written code that was clogging computer resources and could potentially crash his computer or, if removed, disable his CD drive.