Ramblings of a Technology Addict

Thursday, June 5, 2003

Oh my. The iTunes Music Store has a Classical Section.

My wallet has crawled out of my pants to pound its little leather corners into my touchpad and keyboard, filling my laptop with the sounds of Yo-Yo Ma and the Robert Shaw Chorale; the London Symphony Orchestra and Mozart's Don Giovanni. Oh lord, I have a new addiction.
10:47:38 PM  comment []

Good Products.

Good services are few and far between in this world. Lately, I've heard more and more ads on the radio for DirecTV done by Dennis Miller. I can't be more effusive of my praise for them. I hate the cable companies. Slow monopolies who only want to pick your pocket for every last dime and in exchange they give you crappy service. With all that in mind, the DirecTV installers came today. They did a decent job but left behind a mess on my back porch, a bunch of crap I had to pick up and clean up. So, that being said, I'm glad to once again have all the baseball games available, as well as TiVo. You don't know what you've got until it's gone, that's for damn sure.
10:43:01 PM  comment []

It seems to me...

It seems to me that lately, so many journalists are running around trying to make every quote from an administration official into an indictment of the Bush Administration. It's happened twice this week, both to statements made by Paul Wolfowitz. The first time it happened, it was Vanity Fair. I was even sucked in by the reports made on CBS Radio news that said that he'd admitted they'd manufactured an acceptable reason to go into Iraq. I thought it sounded just awful. Then I read the transcript which showed that Vanity Fair had clipped the quote to make it condemning.
Now it's a story in the Guardian that's causing hullaballoo all over the blogosphere. It seems that in their hurry to condemn the Bush Administration for something, anything, they're manufacturing evidence, which, if memory serves, is just what they're accusing the Bush administration of doing. If you have real honest evidence and can provide tried and true proof of wrong-doing, bring it forth, unfettered, and let people judge it. Don't try to spin it and instead come off looking the fool.
11:37:33 AM  comment []