Ten Reasons WhyUnclarifying the issues since 2000 (off and on)Unbelievably standing up for the RIAA (this one time)- December 31, 2007 Yesterday, Marc Fisher of the Washington Post wrote a piece entiled "Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use." (Free registration might be required to view.) One of my favorite bloggers, Daring Fireball's Jon Gruber, referenced this briefly yesterday. I've seen this crop up on lots of other blogs and various media outlets, and the story is always presented in basically the way that Fisher presented it: In an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has...http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/archives/2007/12/unbelievably_st_1.html Flickr Uploadr is Bettr Than Evr- December 14, 2007 I've been disappointed that I haven't made better use of the digital SLR I bought last year, so I hereby dub 2008 the Year of Photogregory. Or Rittography. Or something clever that combines my name and photography. I did get good use out of the Nikon D50 a few months back on my vacation to California for (a) Tim & Sharon's San Francisco wedding and (b) driving down the coast in a convertible Mustang. And yesterday I finally got around to starting to get good use out of my Flickr account via.http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/archives/2007/12/flickr_uploadr_1.html Why I want to be an Italian semioticiannovelist when I grow up- December 3, 2007 From a New York Times Magazine interview with Umberto Eco: I am wondering if you read Dan Browns Da Vinci Code, which some critics see as the pop version of your Name of the Rose. I was obliged to read it because everybody was asking me about it. My answer is that Dan Brown is one of the characters in my novel, Foucaults Pendulum, which is about people who start believing in occult stuff. But you yourself seem interested in the kabbalah, alchemy and other occult practices explored in...http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/archives/2007/12/why_i_want_to_b.html |