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Archive for January, 2010
New mix: Goodbye 2009
Jan 20th
I was a bit behind schedule this year in getting my New Years’ mix down. My apologies to all… being a Dad is busy work sometimes. But the mix is ready for your listening pleasure! I chose to feature this mix on the Tastyfresh Homegrown podcast (which I am the host of), so it’s available exclusively from there. There was sooooo much good music this year, it just doesn’t stop!
Here’s the download link: http://www.tastyfresh.com/rokdownloads/podcasts/homegrown_ep10.mp3
Tracklist: Calvin Harris – Flashback (Eric Prydz remix) BT – Rose of Jericho (Sultan and Ned Shepard remix) DBN ft. Madita – Asteroidz (Sultan and Ned Shepard remix) Calvin More >
Offline book lending ruining the publishing industry
Jan 20th
The RIAA and others use ridiculous headlines such as mine, to try and explain their economic troubles. Piracy is always to blame. Strange that 2009 saw the biggest holiday records broken once again, despite the “rampant” piracy.
Here’s a great and humurous perspective on the matter.
Apparently, over 2 billion books were “loaned” last year by a cabal of organizations found in nearly every American city and town. Using the same advanced projective mathematics used in the study cited by Publishers Weekly, Go To Hellman has computed that publishers could be losing sales opportunities totaling over $100 Billion per year, losses which extend back to at least More >
Perspective and Priorities
Jan 12th
Andrew Gazaneo quoted a comment from Marc Driscoll, about perspective, which I liked:
“You can pray for a woman I just met. Got off alcohol only to get on prescription drugs, just lost her 2 little kids to the state, & her husband got arrested for beating her. Meanwhile, some people are really frustrated that their 3G connection is slow. Perspective is a great gift.”
I just finished a poll for Avaaz, a worldwide human action network. And the results from 40,000+ members trouble me slightly:
I don’t care about the specifics of global warming (or cooling), or climate change perse… but I More >