WMA / Janus - the Muppet?

Everybody knows itunes and how it works. But, the 2nd most popular format for music is Windows Media Audio, aka WMA. Why? Because with WMA you can protect it in very sophisticated ways. You can rent the music by the month (like Napster and Rhapsody) or you can purchase it outright to be [...]

Pulp Fiction’s Hidden Storyline

I was talking with some people the other day of the genius behind Tarantino’s second film - Pulp Fiction. I was surprised to hear that very few people knew about the hidden subplot going through the entire movie. So, i thought i’d write it down once and for all for y’all….
The real story is [...]

Songbird’s Here

There’s a new media player that’s been released called Songbird. iTunes has dominated as the go-to media player for people to play music. And with WMP, Winamp, Yahoo Music Engine and others (J. River) it would seem that the space is pretty saturated. How could a new player even hope to catch up, [...]

Time Stops at 10:09

I read an interesting blog posting today from a guy who’s visiting Switzerland and he’s noticed that all the watch advertisements he’s see has the time set at 10:09.  It’s kind of eerie when you see all the ads.
Check out his blog post here .

Gmail Chat Is Awesome

I think this flew under the radar for a few days for me before i fully appreciated how great a move this is for Google. I figure it will take about 6 months or 1 year before there’s an article in Time/Newsweek/Fortune about how great Google is for things like this (and maps, search, etc). [...]

Google vs. MS: Web Terminals Will Win

I was looking at Intel’s new core, and i heard about Sun’s new Sparc. It’s clear that microprocessors continue to get faster and better, and seem to be mostly utilized on the server side. Laptop and desktop machines don’t need more power because there aren’t that many applications pushing that envelope. For instance, i [...]

Snowboarding in the Olympics? I Don’t Like it

I was watching the snowboarding tonight and i just couldn’t help feeling that it just isn’t right. This should not be a sport in the Olympics. I’m not saying it shouldn’t be a sport, at least not right now, i’m just saying don’t put it in the Olympics. Anyway ,here are my main [...]

Milan to Minsk? How about DC to NY

Sure it’s not an erotic journey (a la Seinfeld), but it is still quite an adventure. As someone who has lived and worked in both DC and NY and gone back and forth regularly, i’m very familiar with the various travelling options. But this weekend was something special. As usual i explored my [...]

Jim Croce Rocks

I’ve always loved Jim’s music. It’s a great mix of sappy, cheesy love songs (Operator, Have To Say I Love You In A Song) and great folk rock (Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, Mess Around With Jim). But, given that we have all these VH1 specials and full-featured movies about great music legends (Ray, [...]

Ideas, Observations & Questions

Just some things i’ve noticed over the past few months:

Why is NY the only city that’s implemented the cascading street lights? One light turns green, then when you get to the next - guess what? It turns green. Genius. I can’t stand waiting at a stoplight for 5 minutes, only to go [...]