Don't risk losing your $600 Minidisc recorder while bootlegging a gig, risk losing your $3000 PDA while recording a gig. Joke aside, this is extreamly cool, a mod for PDAs that allows digital 96hz live recording onto flash cards (available up to 4 Gb now apparently, more than enough for an hour or so gig in uncompressed WAV).
Apple may buy Universal (TheReg). Apple who are happy for you to copy your CDs and put them on your iPod with no lamo copy protection... although rumour is Microsoft wants it to.
AOL Australia advertising new broadband based on the content (Sony music broadcasts, "the best of" Channel 7). Does this mean AOL might be offering TV shows from channel before they're broadcast, or at least on-demand?
Beer Festival at Sandown on Saturday was pretty bloody terrible. The beer was great, but the venue, the price, the bands were all complete rubbish. $25 just to get in ("it's for the bands"), then $3.50 a pot for the beers. $3.50 is OK for the higher end beers but they had bloody light beers and your typical VB and Carlton and all that rubbish... We just can't figure out what the market for this thing was. All the advertising was lies. There were a few tables with kegs behind them, not the full on stall "show day" marketing we were expecting.
Jamieson Raspberry, Jamieson Brown Ale, Sunshine Coast Ginger Kegs, Noosa Gold, Robinsons Chilli Beer, Velvet Cream Stout and one other I can't think of right now. The Chilli beer was too freaky. Like eating a chilli. Ginger beer was just sugar yet tasty but hard to finish. Raspberry was like drinking a donut. Velvet was NICE...
Armadale Hotel closing? This can't be true. Not my local pub! This new is from March 8 and I've heard nothing else so it may be rubbish. We love playing the Armadale.