Saturday, July 20, 2002

GEMM.com and Jazz 88 Get Chummy

The folks at http://GEMM.com (The World's Largest Music Catalog) stopped by the studios a couple months back and here are the pictorial results (another and info here). Jazz 88 and GEMM got a thing goin' on.

Gemm.com Staff Visit Jazz 88

Actually, I thought the picture would brighten up the place. I'm the jolly fellow on the right. More names and details here.
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Busta Move To The Electric Boogaloo!

Did Young MC invent the phraseology "Stone Cold" with Bust a Move? Who knows and who cares.

Great ode to a great tune at The Electric Boogaloo. And be sure to check out the Retorts to the lyrical post. Cool.

Oh, I forgot, Mikey was one of the folks at the San Diego Blog Meetup last Thursday at O'Briens. Joan seems to be definitive on the goings ons. I hope they had many IPAs at O'Briens. I would have. I wish I could have been there. Maybe next time. I even sent some email to Charles about having a Blog Meetup on a Thursday night at Jazz 88 Studios in San Diego. Live! And bloggers who wanted to read from their blog could do so...we'd mix The New Jazz Things in, just watch...or listen.
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A Busy Writers Guide to Radio Renderers

Remembering this link collectively for future reference.
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Radio Userland: How to create a Blogroll with Radio's outliner

Trying to quickly get respectable with a blogroll in the right margin, this first incarnation being my subscriptions to online news sources (weblogs and others).
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John Robb Says Buy A House

"The gain in homes over the next decade will make your head spin. Get into as big a home as you can, stretch out your mortgage payments as long as you can, find the best neighborhood you can (remember a home's value is defined by three factors: location, location, and location), and ride the wave. This is the retirement cornicopia that can't be matched by the stock market."

Woa. The timing on this is interesting.
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NPR Jazz Profiles - The Standards

"Jazz has always thrived on a bedrock of standards, tunes drawn from the blues to bossa nova, from Tin Pan Alley to contemporary rock, and from Broadway musicals to R&B. This Jazz Profiles show explores how certain songs are strong and fortunate enough to achieve "standard" status."
Interesting looking page with lots of various NPR audio bits on the subject. Happy listening and learning.
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Palladium + Microsoft = Devil?

I started reading this article because of the title, "The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea". An American Songbook Standard by Harold Arlen, or at least a Jazz standard (check out some of it's company in that category...woa, learn those and you've got the words...it's up to you to speak 'em). I digress into TNJT territory...Jazz fans continue reading at your own risk.

It is an article about Paladium, Microsoft's new copyright enforcement solution or something like that. It's been getting a lot of press and linkage lately, but I haven't dove in. Which is the reason for the "something like that". I know more now...

"Palladium might provide substantial security against these attacks, because it will require that all code be digitally signed before it can run. This will be enforced at the hardware level, to reduce the likelihood of serious implementation bugs. This model could plausibly eliminate attacks whereby low-level code might be erroneously executed by a privileged application."

That seems pretty clear. Now for the gist of the article (which must relate to the title somehow as I speculated in the headline...maybe I'm too obvious, but I haven't gotten past the first section yet and may never, knowing me):

Palladium cannot protect us from most security threats -- and its aim may be to eliminate open source software on commodity hardware.

Commodity hardware: Any digital device at home. At work. In your car. In your pocket. Only Microsoft-approved software?
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