I remember when iTunes Music Store first came online, I read a statement that it was going to be .99 cents per song and $9.99 per album, and that Apple was not going to do any different agreements with different labels. Labels were being told (supposedly) “take it or leave it.” However, I’m seeing more and more releases coming online with “By Song Only,” at .99 cents per song, and no album price. A number of releases from the Mountain Apple Company, Hawai’i largest music label and distributor, have come out, and they are all listed as “By Song Only”…
Dave finds it interesting that no candidate weblogs show up on the Share Your OPML Top 100.
I don’t find it suprising. To me subscribing one of those would be like tuning into a cable channel that broadcasts nothing but political advertising generated by the candidates and their parties. I’m not subscribed to any political weblogs. Why? I need balance. I don’t need to hear any more Bush-bashing, Dean-trashing crap, or pie-in-the-sky “I can cure all of the world’s ills” baloney. I’d like to read someone’s fair coverage of their policies and plans and how it affects Joe Average Citizen without the spin. Does such a beast exist? Is it possible?
Building A Better Ireland.
Bernie Goldbach points to what sounds like a disturbing set of papers on the social fabric of Ireland. I wonder how many descendents of the Irish diaspora, such as myself, hold an overly romantic and idyllic image of Ireland, in much the same way many people also view Hawai’i. While my wife and I were in Ireland during the summer of 2002, I let myself dream about what it would be like to move to Ireland, maybe retire there. The dreams were short-lived, for sure, but not because of stories like these.
‘Irish Language Champions Fail the Talk Test’ is a poorly worded headline for this story from scotsman.com.
Can you fault these Irish language advocates for their inability to speak the language? Better to fault the education in the language provided to them and the political environment they grew up in. Same here in Hawai’i. A generation of native speakers here decided not to pass the language to their children, mostly to the atmosphere and politics of their era. The EU should still recognize the language. If they can accept new countries and their languages, they need to accept Irish. A opinion from the middle of the Pacific.
I’ll agree with most of Russ Beattie’s observations on Job’s Apple Keynote.
I was pretty disappointed with the iPod Mini, too. There’s only $60 difference between the iPod Mini and the smallest (HD space-wise) iPod, but the former has only 25% of the HD space. But GarageBand sounds way cool. I have Soundtrack and it is pretty slick as well, but adding audio recording and editing at that price is incredible. I’ll definitely be picking it up. If Apple would only do this kind of pricing on their hardware.
I never realized that Irish was not one of the EU’s recognized languages.
There a bunch of new countries joining the EU this year, along with their languages. Since the EU Presidency is in Ireland for the next six months, maybe this will get fixed. Did you know that Hawai’i is the only state in the US that officially recognizes two languages, English and Hawaiian?
My son Palani is one of 600 Hawai’i-based reservists who were called up and preparing for duty in Iraq.
We talked extensively about the possibility of this happening before he enlisted, so we have no complaints, but it doesn’t make it any less stressful. The house is quieter, and its a different quiet than there was when he was off at basic training. God willing we’ll see him again in 18 months.
Irish drink culture faces clampdown.
It’s interesting that a drink that used to proclaim that it’s “good for you” might have a health warning slapped on it.
quickSub is a Javascript function that adds intelligence to the feed button on your web page.
It looks interesting and I wouldn’t mind using on Radio Keola and NahenaheNet, but on Safari the popup menu doesn’t go away when you move the cursor off of the XML icon. Will contact the developer. Update: there is a little “x” in the upper right hand corner of the popup, and dragging the cursor over that makes the popup window go away. Pretty cool little script. I might give it a try here.
According to the Ranchero site NetNewsWire can subscribe to channels via a link on the webpage.
Just testing. If you have NetNewsWire or another aggregator that uses the feed: link, Click here to subscribe to the Radio Keola RSS feed. I just checked and it works.