I’ve been sitting on the sidelines watching different MP3 players come and go. I refuse to buy into the iPod mentality, and pay a 50% premium just to own a popular brand name. So, I’ve been watching a couple of other options, and I think I may have narrowed my choices down to a few. Read on!
Category Archives: Music, Video & Print
Sirius Wields Its Axe
What an unpleasant day I had. Couldn’t wait to turn off the AM radio and listen to some music on XM. I shouldn’t have bothered. What I heard today wasn’t the XM Radio I subscribed to!
XM Merger Takes Its Toll
Any “merger” these days tends to mean one thing: layoffs. And there was one XM fatality that really grabbed my attention over the past few weeks. A downer for me, as this was one of my favorite things about XM Radio. Continue reading XM Merger Takes Its Toll
Queen: The Greatest Live Rock Performance?
I’ve been listening to a lot of Queen lately. I don’t know why, but it’s probably another one of those phases I’m going through. I never really got into Queen that much before, but I’ve gotten ahold of the Mobile Fidelity CD pressing of The Game, and it sounds fantastic. Poking around the web a bit, I found out that one of their live performances has long been touted as one of the greatest live rock performances of all time. And I remember it!
Firefox 3.0 First Impressions
I’ve been using the new Firefox 3.0 on a couple of our computers here. As with any upgrade, there are new “features” (and I use the term loosely) that work nicely, whereas others are either broken or do not work as they did in earlier versions. What has changed, and what have I done to fix them?