Soon your iPod will never break. Many of you weren’t around in the early days of computing, the eighties, when hard drives were introduced for personal computers, and failed on a regular basis.  You backed up everything on floppies, because that day was going to come.  When you heard that grinding noise and your data […]

I cannot speak to the veracity of the report below, which is the source for numerous other postings on the Web. Yup, unlike a shitty band, an heinous policy decision is spread like wildfire using the new communication tools. But I’ve seen urban legends before. And no specific individual has popped up to say he’s […]

Steve Jobs doesn’t have to worry.  His iPod near-monopoly is not on the verge of being threatened.  Quite the contrary, the more inane products that are released by so-called competitors, the brighter the shine on the Apple, er, iPod. You’ve probably seen that Microsoft iPod faux commercial Microsoft iPod, but it’s not only about packaging, […]

Meet the new bossSame as the old boss Pete Townshend Record labels are only as good as the acts they record and release.  No executive ever sold a record at Best Buy, never mind a download at iTunes.  In this crazy fucked-up world we live in somehow the execs think THEY are the artists. Artistry […]