RPI student gets screwed:
RIAA Grabs Student’s Life’s Savings
(If you went to RPI, you understand the “screw” reference…)
Author: Andrew Huey
Rain
More rain today. Are we going to get a nice weekend anytime soon? I guess not. Well, it gave me time to back up my hard drive, watch some Futurama, Animatrix shorts, and some random anime. And read a little bit too. Can’t spend the whole day in front of the tube.
Will Caffeine Cause Health Problems?
Will Caffeine Cause Health Problems? Lots of interesting discussion here, but who knows how much of it has any basis in reality. I’m doing about 3 cups of coffee a day right now, on weekdays, and maybe 1 a day on weekends.
BitTorrent
I’ve been playing around with BitTorrent a lot over the last week or so. It’s nice. I’ve been downloading a bunch of fansubbed anime. Just what I needed: another hobby!
TFAW
Things From Another World has a “nick and dent” sale going on. Lots of good stuff at 50% off. I just bought 4 Crossgen TPBs — the first two volumes each of Scion and Sojourn. They look fine; better, in general, than you’d see on the shelf at a bookstore. I’m going to try to avoid buying anthing else, though. My stack of unread books is about a foot and a half high right now.
Rain
Another rainy day in Somerville, so no street fair today. Darn. I bought the Sunday New York Times to keep myself entertained. And I took a little trip to Borders to pick up the new Led Zep CD.
handhelds
A little press release related to my company’s handheld computing program turned up on the Extended Systems site a while ago.
Dave Gahan
You can listen to all of Dave Gahan’s new album at his web site, through a little Flash applet. It’s pretty good. Maybe I’ll pick it up from Apple’s music store, if it finds its way there. Or I could just capture the stream from the Flash applet with Ace-High on my PC, but that would be cheating.
Meanwhile, Is this the end of Netscape? Does it matter? How did they get through this article without once mentioning Mozilla?
Burn, Baby, Burn
I’ve got my 52x CD writer working at 48x now, which is much better than the 16x it was originally doing. I think the trick was to not let Nero try to figure out the max speed, but just let it go. And just for yuks, I typed “burn baby burn” into Google, and found this year-old article from Time. The song remains the same.
Emusic
It looks like EMusic just added the catalog of the Beggars Group, which means that they now have a bunch of stuff from Badly Drawn Boy, The Cocteau Twins, The Pixies, and a bunch more. Good thing I’ve got a big pile of CD-R’s handy.