Sad news
Especially to those of us who grew up with The Clash, aka the “only band that ever mattered”. Joe Strummer died yesterday of an apparent heart attack. Man, I feel a little bit older today.
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Especially to those of us who grew up with The Clash, aka the “only band that ever mattered”. Joe Strummer died yesterday of an apparent heart attack. Man, I feel a little bit older today.
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For those of you who were wondering why Internet Radio doesn’t just play unsigned bands and avoid the royalties, here’s this little nugget from Mary Wehmeier: Doc has asked the question: Do these webcasting fees only apply to acts signed to RIAA labels? The answer to this is actually not well known, but something I…
OK now that our little national diversion is over, can we get to the really important issue of the day? Can we settle the NHL lockout? Please? Seriously, FoxSports Ohio, due to the lack of Blue Jackets games, has started showing “Classic Blue Jackets” games to fill programming. Classic games? They’ve been in the league…
I know I’ve been pretty quiet on all of my blogs the past few days. I’ve been spending an inordinate amount of that time in front of a computer, but not one hooked up to the Internet. Fact is, the particular laptop I’ve been working on for a friend, had no business being on-line until…
Today should be the first time since I’ve updated the handful of XP machines in the office that automatic updates will come into play with Microsoft’s monthly security bulletins coming late yesterday. They’re set to notify the end user that new updates are avaialble. That setting was a guess at what would work best, if…
I forgot to mention the other omen that this is going to be a real good week. Later yesterday, after I posted that stuff, I discovered that someone had thrown a rock and broken one of the windows on the second floor of our office building. The window is in an empty office so no…
I guess there’s something else I’ll have to check for whenever our pool laptops get returned. Normally that’s a time to do AV updates, patching, etc. After today I’m going to have to check and make sure all the software is still installed! I had a visit early this morning from someone who had taken…