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Apple has hit the nail on the head. I predict huge success for their new music service. They’ve managed to get to the sweet spot: a buck a song. I’ve been saying for five years that online music will be profitable when it reaches a buck a song.
The interface is great, and I like that you can buy an entire album for ten bucks, with cover art. Unlimited burning is sweet, too.
Why does it always take Apple to step in and show how things can be done?
I’ve pretty much been taking a break from working on Frequency this weekend. I’ve been spending time with Gracie and, with help from my father-in-law, finishing up the plumbing. The copper is almost all gone; we’re almost all CPVC plumbing now. Not that there’s anything wrong with copper; but CPVC is sure a lot easier to work with and fix. No leaks yet!
Now I need to knuckle on the Windows build of Frequency. It’s about 95% there. The first release on Windows will be 1.1, and will coincide with the 1.1 release for Mac Classic and Mac OS X. From then on, I hope to keep the versions and feature sets in synch. I plan to have 1.1b2 (second beta) out to Windows testers this week. Kudos to Bill, by the way, who has not only taken to blogging like a fish to water, but is full of ideas about Frequency. Thanks, Bill. I knew there was a reason I picked you for my best man!
Been spending a lot of time reading the REALbasic lists this weekend. What a flamefest!
Liza Mundy: “People ask: Where are your children?” she says, drinking from a water bottle during a break. She feels that her infertility is embarrassing, deeply private…
You can take these tests to find out your empathizing quotient and systemizing quotient. I won’t reveal my scores, but I’ll say that I came out balanced somehow.
One of my favorite poems: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains.
Bill’s still blogging, and now he’s sucking up, too. 🙂
Some Bloggers never die. Kinda creepy, really.
Andy Ihnatko, one of my heroes, is “slumming it” with slower machines, and finding that life isn’t so bad. I’m currently slumming it with a 500 MHz TiBook, while my main machine, Scooby, is back at Apple, currently “waiting for parts.”
Edgar Codd, a great computer scientist, is no longer with us.
Rick Aristotle Munarriz: So, forgive me for donning salmon flippers and making an upstream push, but I think Apple buying Universal Music Group would be a brilliant move. I guess we’ll know soon enough.
Gates testifies: Gates testified that the litigating states’ proposed remedy would harm Microsoft’s business in three ways: It would jeopardize development of future versions of Windows; hamper the company’s efforts to promote hardware and software products that work well together; and imperil the “central role” played in protecting intellectual property. Oh, well, cry me a river. You were found guilty!
Speaking of Microsoft, Here’s a list of Microsoft weblogs.
Also speaking of Microsoft, here’s a great article on why Word is not a document exchange format.
Yesterday was interesting. I forgot to mention that instead of our regular worship service (not the sunrise service for which I arrived late), we had a Passover dinner, or Seder dinner. A Messianic Jew and her husband walked us through the elements of the Passover, explaining the significance of each. It was fascinating. There are so many parallels between the Passover dinner and the death and resurrection of Jesus. As the woman (I can’t remember her name) explained, the Old and New Testaments really are one big book, despite the fact that a lot of Christians tend to ignore the Old Testament. But the Old Testament, if nothing else, is context for the new. If we truly want to understand the nature of Christ, we need to study Jewish culture. Jesus was Jewish, after all.
Anyway, the experience was very informative, and I hope to do it again someday.
And of course, I somehow got roped into playing guitar when they sang us a song. But that was cool. It was fun to play in a whole different style from what I’m used to playing.
I just watched a wretched movie called “Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World” with Gracie. It’s a horrid attempt by Disney to further capitalize on the Beauty and the Beast franchise and the current Disney Princess craze.
Actually, that’s not entirely true. It’s actually four wretched little, well, vignettes, I guess.
And you know what? I’ll bet I’ll watch at least a dozen more times in the next two months. This is the price you pay when your main movie-watching partner is three years old and a girl.
But I wouldn’t have it any other way.