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Posted in Apple, Entertainment, Technology on Feb 6th, 2007
With Steve Jobs’ recent Thoughts On Music article mentioning that Apple would drop DRM in a minute if the record companies would buy in to it, I was wondering if people would be willing to pay more for non DRM’d music.
What if you could buy songs at tierd pricing based on compression quality and [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Microsoft on Jan 9th, 2007
Anyone have any idea why Microsoft let the UltimateTV die? I’ve been in the IT field for almost 21 years now and their are not a lot of MS products that rank up there high on my “wow” scale, but UltimateTV was one of them. (Exchange2003, SQL2005, and Windows2003 are a few of the [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Jan 2nd, 2007
Just curious. I was thinking about this as I was getting gas and realized I’ve never seen a celebrity pumping gas in person or in any picture. Do they have people for that or what?
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Posted in Entertainment, Personal, Technology on Dec 31st, 2006
Trying to explain to a 6th grader that most of that “free” music they are downloading for that new MP3 player is illegal is a conversation one should never have to have, but unfortunately it happens.
To me it’s very simple, very black and white - unless the Artist or record company is giving it away, [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Personal on Dec 30th, 2006
Today marks the last daily strip of my favorite comic, Foxtrot. Every morning when I get up, the very first thing I read on my Yahoo front page is Foxtrot. It’s made me laugh for years and I’ll miss it 6 days a week. Thankfully the Sunday edition will still get produced, [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Dec 30th, 2006
I am not a big fan of Broadway shows and musicals. Just not my cup of tea. But my wife and I set out early today to see a movie before our vacation ends, and Dreamgirls was the only one playing at the time we arrived at the theater.
By the time it was [...]
Posted in Blogging, Entertainment on Dec 22nd, 2006
I guess I should come clean. You introduced me to video blogging. I felt for you when the Boom was lowered. I followed you across America. But we kind of drifted apart and I thought we were on a break, so I started seeing other people. Don’t be upset, it’s [...]
Posted in Games, Technology on Dec 22nd, 2006
Pretty cool. Nintendo, with the little game machine that could, has not only brought in a very cool way of playing games to our house, but they have also snuck in email (via the Mii channel) and now web browsing using the Opera web browser. Very smart, Nintendo.
Since I am on vacation I took the [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Dec 20th, 2006
A lyric that has always bugged me is in the Band-Aid song “Do they know it’s Christmas?” It’s the part where they sing “and there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas time.” I mean, I get the reason for the song and the money that they raised, but I’ve always secretly had my doubts [...]
Posted in Games, Technology on Dec 19th, 2006
Today the Wii grabbed our attention because its drive slot was pusling a blue color. When I turned it on it told me about the new Forecast channel and offered to doanload an update. Pretty slick, as we can now check the weather across the globe. Oh yeah, there is a Globe [...]