Kapt Kaos The Cosmic Pirate

Just ran across this article on Digital Trends about Last.fm starting up a free music streaming service.

The company has signed agreements with all four major labels and some 150,000 indies to give access to a massive catalogue. Users will be able to listen to any track three times. After that, they’ll be encouraged to buy the track from one of a number of sources.

The beauty of all this is that Last.fm has promised to pay the artists a royalty every time a track is played – even unsigned artists who have their music available. If a track is purchased, Last.fm will share the fee.

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Just received an email directing me to this great bit about a different way to look at data retention and databases.

Just as it’s impossible for the Internet to scourge itself of Paris Hilton’s terrible genitals, it is likewise impossible that the personal information hemorrhaged by the likes of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (25 million records!) will ever go away. This information is like a nuclear disaster, immortal and terrible in its consequence.

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I upgrade wordpress from a older version to 2.3.2. This broke a few things but has given me an over all better/safer site. I made the mistake of not backing up my theme before I upgraded and have lost what I had. So, I am playing with a few new themes. Some of them have some new features that I am interested in adding to other sites as well. I will try to post about my experience with the upgrade shortly in more detail, as I have this upgrade to do on a few of my sites.