iTMS and Canada

Watched a news report a few days ago on iTMS, Apple Canada stated that this is an experiment, and if it goes well then we will see a iTMS for Canada which would be great. I am also happy to hear that smaller labels are in talks with Apple to

Java Programming

Started my class on java programming. So far so good, the teacher seems pretty good and organized. So far I have only done two hello world style programs, nothing really interesting. If I do anything cool in the class, I will post it :)

Weekend

Saturday, went over to my parents for dinner -- Licks sells nature burgers and homeburgers at the grocery store, so we opted to try those this time. We originaly went over to finish some work on our taxes, but found out that there are still somethings left to do before

Apple screws Canada and the rest of the world...

Best thing to happen to music since the CD happened today. Apple launched a music service that is fully integrated into iTunes 4. But it is currently only for US residence only. WTF! why, is .99$ USD a song to much for the canadian market? no, still sounds fair to

How to kill a fish humanely

One of our platties is sick, so as I was reading through more posts on Usenet, I found something that peaked my interest. "How to kill a goldfish humanely" In short, putting a fish into the freezer is not a humane way to kill a fish, as fish

Filk on spam

I was browsing through some newsgroups and I came across this little filk [http://www.filk.com/filk_faq.html] tune on spam. Come one and all and sing it with me ;) -- sung to the tune of "American Pie" Long, long time ago I can still remember

Ben Folds and Weird Al

Supposedly according to a post on alt.music.ben-folds-five, Ben Folds is to play piano for one original song on Weird Al's next album. I should also point out that Weird Al directed Ben's video 'Rock'n the suburbs'

New iBooks

Apple [http/www.apple.com] just released new 800Mhz and 900Mhz iBooks. Although technicaly faster than my 500Mhz iBook, I think I'll wait till the IBM 970 PowerPC chips start shipping on the powerbooks then pick up a G4 iBook :) Or if I'm rolling in cash,

CSS Changes (again)

I have made some drastic CSS changes today, but it is all part of a much larger site design plan, which will be revealed to all sometime soon I hope :) I have checked over the site in Safari [http://www.apple.com/safari] but have yet to try it in

Easter weekend

It's nice to have a long weekend. Being Easter, it is jammed packed full of family dinners. Although on Saturday we are to go to a friends house for a BBQ -- hopefully it doesn't rain.