Gregg's Web Log

Category Misc. Ramblings

More fun in the music biz this week. First, the RIAA unleashes another 500+ lawsuits, then gets sued under federal racketeering statutes. If we take what the record industry says as gospel, then the proliferation of free P2P systems is the only reason why sales are down and the music business is hurting so much. Don Henley, late of the Eagles, took the industry to task this week in a Washington Post op-ed piece that lays the blame on more than just those of us who use Kazaa and e-Donkey. Henley feels that the industry should bear the brunt of the blame, even for P2P-based piracy.

Rock on!

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Category News of the Wierd
The Philly Phanatic's Ichabod Crane impression mercifully came to a happy resolution for the green anteater.

For all the fuzzy details, check this out.  

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Category News of the Wierd

They throw batteries. They fight amongst themselves. They had a judge on duty and a prison in the basement of their stadium.

The Phillie Phanatic Has Lost His Head  

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Category My Website
It's been a very long time coming but I'm finally getting my photos back on the web for the first time since Photopoint.Com crashed and burned.Thanks to Christian Brandlehner's Open Notes Picture Database I now have a very workable template that runs on top of my Domino server.

To start I've put a lot of my travel photos up, including my Tokyo trip and my last cruise. I should have a lot of my racing photos up soon. Just look to the left at the "My Photo Albums" block for links to the albums. Enjoy.  

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Category Misc. Ramblings

Now I've had my TiVo for many years. Count me among the converted. It's one of the original Sony units capable of recording for 30 hrs. max. It's been upgraded multiple times--from 30 hrs. to 110 hrs. to 200 hrs. to 240 hrs. It been networked and I now I can program it remotely and even have it splash Caller ID info on the TV. People say it all the time but it's changed my couch potato life. You all just can't know the happiness I feel when TiVo has recorded another episode of Lizzie McGuire.

I've always known that in order to keep the business afloat that TiVo collects data on viewer habits and it looks like in the bruhaha that is now known as "Boobgate" that there are a lot of happy TiVo owners.

Article: Jackson's Super Bowl flash grabs TiVo users <CNET News.com, Feb. 2, 2004>  

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