Moby!
I like Moby. He writes really simple music at home with his computer. He's so down to earth, and his care-factor is always at zero. And what's more, he keeps a log at his official site.
Blog Snog
The media cares! I don't.
Napster to track shared MP3s
Napster is adding a 'Protection Layer' to their service. You can still share your own ripped MP3s, but once they're served to someone else Napster knows what you do with it (at least within the Napster program).
It's hard for me to see exactly how they're going to do this. One guess is adding a WMA (Windows Media) layer. The reason I think this is that the example they give is "For instance, Napster ... may prevent users from burning their MP3s onto CDs, a popular practice." You can do that with WMA (at least, with software that supports it).
Haiku
Graphical madness
HTML disaster
Code? An after-thought
I hate design. I hate visual HTML. I like coding. I like making things do things, not making things look pretty and entering copy. I prefer to do something significantly different every six months. Uni was constantly changing while remaining annoyingly familar (I learned how to do Entity Relationship Diagrams in about six different classes). Work, quite possibly no matter where you go, is annoyingly static, not matter how much it changes.
Sony + Universal Sell Music On-line
Sony + Universal launch their 'virtual jukebox' in summer. 'Better quality than MP3'. Um? OK, so use higher bitrates. Their own format. Subscription or pay-per-listen. How much? Not announced.
From the article...
Universal Music France chief Negre said he did not expect prices for online music to decline, noting that the price of compact discs had risen at a rate that was three times lower than the average rise in consumer prices since 1970.
Um... unfortunately CD prices should never have been as high as they were. When CDs first came out they cost much more than vinyl, even though they were much cheaper to produce. The prices haven't come down since. If this were the case with CD burners we'd still be paying $10,000 for them.