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iPhone crashing computer work-around

So I got an iPhone for my birthday yesterday and was all excited this morning to get it up and running with apps, my music/podcasts etc and of course to do that you have to connect it up to your PC. So I plug it in to the USB port via the supplied lead and my computer crashes. 'Well it must be a fluke' I think 'Apple products are known for their ability to "just work" right? That couldn't just be marketing bullshit' I continue to think. So I reboot and plug it in again. Same thing. And this isn't just any crash either, this is a 'screen goes black, all keys cease to work, forcing a hard reset' kind of crash. So after (literally) three hours of tinkering and searching Google I have come up with a work-around. The problem was caused by the iPhone/iTunes software having a software clash with my HP Photo transfer software for transferring pictures off my digital camera (which BTW has never happened before with previous iPods or ANY OTHER SOFTWARE I

Recursive acronyms

In computer science, a recursive function is a function that calls itself it order to perform some complex calculation with relatively few commands. An acronym is a phrase for which the first letters of each individual word form a new word. Mash them together and you get infinite fun! For example; 'TIARA' is an acronym that stands for 'TIARA Is A Recursive Acronym' You could blow it up one more level and say '(TIARA Is A Recursive Acronym) Is A Recursive Acronym' Or one more level and say '((TIARA Is A Recursive Acronym) Is A Recursive Acronym) Is A Recursive Acronym' Repeat until dead.