#Musicbl­o­go­cide. I’ll have to look more into this story [1], but suf­fice to say, if Google has been tak­ing down music-related Blog­ger sites with­out clear jus­ti­fi­ca­tion, it is unwar­ranted cen­sor­ship and a big prob­lem. Google recently took down sev­eral music blogs due to copy­right vio­la­tions, yet the owner of at least one site in particular […]

Posted on February 12th, 2010 by Sky
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A few weeks ago, I lost a small argu­ment with a hand tool. It was no big deal. Four stitches later I was good to go, except for one prob­lem: this hap­pened on a Sun­day. I bled. I cussed. Then wrapped in gauze I quickly sur­veyed my options. Option #1 was to drive to the […]

Posted on February 8th, 2010 by Sky
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For the past few years my fam­ily has been down­siz­ing with some goals in mind: hav­ing fewer things, liv­ing in smaller, more effi­cient hous­ing and trav­el­ing a bit more. So in an era when my entire legally-purchased music col­lec­tion fits eas­ily onto one 3.5″ hard drive, why must I con­tinue lug­ging around two mov­ing boxes containing […]

Posted on February 7th, 2010 by Sky
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After study­ing the announce­ment, con­sid­er­ing 3rd-party opin­ions and watch­ing Steve Job’s entire keynote, my take is that Apple has another hit in their hands. One can argue that iPad ver­sion 1.0 is not quite there, but regard­less, it is a solid first pitch that has claimed that odd space between smart­phones and lap­tops, in a way […]

Posted on February 4th, 2010 by Sky
Filed under: Technology | 2 Comments »