These are my links for March 29th: Journal – datamusicata – Tips, hints, clues and info for the artist in us all SL iReports: Your news of a virtual world – Blogs from CNN.com – Interesting report on a musician showcasing his music in the virtual world "Second Life" See It To Believe It… « DZ-015 – The Half-Arsed Blog Of RTE 2FM’s Rick O’Shea – I wonder if Stevie Wonder has seen this.
Circus Money Coming Soon
My daughter turns 17 next month. That means that it’s been nearly that long since Walter Becker put out a solo release. How are the two events related? Well, he had to watch her once for me when she was just a few months old while I did some work in his home studio on Maui. At the time he was working on that first release, 11 Tracks of Whack (yes, it was released in 1994 but these guys take a LONG time to record, as you may have heard). I could shoot myself for not having gotten a picture…
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 4th through March 28th
These are my links for March 4th through March 28th: Brazilians Denounce Irish Discrimination – Prensa Latina – Three Brazilian university students denounced being mistreated by immigration authorities in Ireland, saying that instead of enjoying a week-long holiday, they were imprisoned for 40 hours in the European country. Wide Awake Developers: Steve Jobs Made Me Miss My Flight – Beware of technophobe TSA agents if you own a MacBook Air. O2 Ireland defends controversial iPhone plans – O2 Ireland: "I'd say your Apple freaks will be queuing out the door when we launch," she notes. Irish taken as fools as…
Paddy Tax
Pat Phelan has been on the warpath since O2 announced its pricing scheme for the iPhone deployment in Ireland on March 14. Alexia and Conor find a few more Paddy Taxes that O2 hoists upon its customers. If you look deep enough it is in much of the telecom industry, though there are a few exceptions like Pat’s own ventures and (for a particular kind of user) MobiPCS back in Hawai‘i. But by and large the major players all treat customers like potential prey instead of valued customers – it’s death by a thousand razors, or Paddy Taxes. My wife…
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 2nd
These are my links for March 2nd: O2 launches iPhone Ireland and pulls a fast one on customers – Pat Pephelan documents O2’s iPhone Paddy Screw-Job. Curious to see what happens here in NZ. iPhone sales were reported to be happening sometime this year, though haven’t heard anything since we arrived. Residents say state is run for tourists [ The Honolulu Advertiser ] – A slim majority of Hawai’i residents told pollsters the state is run more for tourists than local people — a significant shift in attitudes from the previous survey commissioned by the Hawai’i Tourism Authority.