Bob Dylan
Carnegie Hall
New York City, New York
26 October 1963
1. crowd awaits Dylan’s entrance
2. The Times They Are A-Changin’
3. Ballad Of Hollis Brown
4. Who Killed Davey Moore?
5. Boots Of Spanish Leather
6. Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues
7. Lay Down Your Weary Tune
8. Blowin’ In The Wind
9. Percy’s Song
10. Seven Curses
11. Walls Of Red Wing
12. North Country Blues
13. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
(intermission)
14. Talking World War III Blues
15. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
16. “Hootenanny Hoot” story
17. With God On Our Side
18. Only A Pawn In Their Game
19. Masters Of War
20. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
21. When The Ship Comes In
themidnightcafe.org 
Please accept my tardy thanks for this. A truly inspired evening.
Mat,
As you know i have a deep fear of Chrome. From time to time i install it purely to assist in clearing my pending ‘mega’ links queue. I ue it once in a blue moon, i never use it for any other purpose, i opt out of all google analytics etc. After binging on my downloading i uninstall and even del the setup file, which my malware scanner is convinced is dodgy!
Recently my old win pc has been slow and clogged, my very expensive and totally dependable power supply has been ‘racing’, getting hot for no apparent reason and then causing unexpected and sudden shutdowns. Decided to do some housekeeping, scans, registry cleans, uninstalls etc. All malware checks etc were negative, all software reported the pc to be totally clean. I then decided to free some much needed disk space. Went looking fo suitable candidates. In view of the above i was horrified to discover Google had downloaded and stored >8GB of whatever it does, in my local settings\application data folder!!
For comparisons sake this is approx half the size of a full windows installation, about 200 time the necessary size for a fully featured browser. Presumably all this is done in compliance with some permission i granted buried deep in the terms and conditions of the chrome install. Whatever it represents it was all done in the background and with no interaction from me whatsoever.
Few questions
What the hell is all this functionality doing?
What impact is all this having on the everyday performance of my computer?
What data are Google collecting about a user who doesn’t even use this browser on a regular basis, and who has proactively opted out of everything on more than one occasion?
Moral of this story is
Be afraid, be very very afraid
Incidentally, since removing all this garbage and all traces of Chrome from my computer, it has returned to a faster, more stable state, the power supply has calmed down completely and it has not crashed at all.
Message to Steve – use another browser, any other browser!
Oh sorry, aside from my general (yet totally justified) paranoia, one of the multitude of reasons i decided to uninstall Chrome (AGAIN) was it’s tendency to produce corrupt or stalled downloads. I now understand that my irregular use meant that Chrome had far too many things of it’s own to do on the rare occasions i opened it. In addition I only used it to d/l from MEGA and never from Amazon.
It is however one more reason (how many do you need?) to not have this **** on your computer.
And now it worked…weird.
Thank you very much for this.