I often live in something of a time-bubble. I don’t pay a lot of attention to the day of the month, other than noticing when it’s the first or the fifteenth, and I need to send invoices off to customers, but there are external reminders that hit me sometimes. This week, I got reminded that Easter is almost here by a comic.
Also a reminder to people who read this site from Windows boxes who will crash if I have a link starting on the drop-capped letter. If that happens to you, drop me an email with the time and date that you crashed, and I’ll fix the problem. I’ve been making sure to start the links after the drop-cap lately, but it’s easy to forget, so if it happens to you…
- Vowe suggests dueling peeps for some seasonal entertainment (I might have to try that. All I’m lacking are the peeps). Meanwhile, it’s peep week over at Dr. Fun. Don’t miss out on the fun! [vowe]
- It’s happened. The Twins Geek is now live on the Star-Tribune website, though he (at least yesterday) had published stuff on his old site first. As of this morning, they redirect to the same place.
- The New York Times reports on A Heretical View of File Sharing, stating that people downloading MP3s doesn’t hurt CD sales at all.
Some market experts have also suggested that record sales in the 1990’s might have been abnormally high as people bought CD’s to replace their vinyl record collections.
I know that’s been the case with me. I was buying about a CD per week for a long time, filling in gaps in my collection, but recently I’ve quit buying CDs entirely, especially since record companies have started selling shiny plastic discs that are in the CD bins, but are actually copy-protected coasters that won’t play on my hardware. [nyt] - Here’s a nice little story from the Linux Users Group of Ireland: I fought the scammer… and I won. Tells how they captured a 419 scammer in an internet café in Dublin. [slashdot]
- There are those in Minneapolis who think that Streetcars play a part in transportation plan, or at least they should. The proposal is for the City (hopefully not the Met Council, since they’re doing such a fine job of providing transit now) to run a streetcar line in the Midtown Greenway, which runs from Lake Calhoun to the old Sears building on Lake St., and will eventually be extended all the way to the river. I’d like to see streetcars in there, even if it’s not an ideal route (actually putting them on Lake St. would be better, to my mind). [press-patch]
- Former State Senator and Gubernatorial candidate Roger Moe [has been] asked to enter negotiations in the transit strike by the union and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak. It sounds as though Metro Transit is still unwilling to budge. [press-patch]
- Jim has a Transit Strike Update. There’s not really much to update, but aside from him thinking that health-care is a right (I don’t necessarily disagree, but I definitely wouldn’t say it’s a right, either), he’s got a pretty good summary of what’s up, and notes on what you can do to support the union over the next week. [jim]