I’m not an expert on Digital Rights Management (DRM) and the various arguments for and against it. I can certainly understand the anxiety that the net causes copyright holders of various sorts. But I do get frustrated when their (lame, weak, easily circumventable) efforts at protecting their content cause me trouble in those situations where [...]

I like documentaries, but I’ve had Davis Guggenheim‘s documentary about Al Gore‘s presentation about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth (see also the Wikipedia entry), sitting beside my TV for quite a few days now. It arrived from Netflix and I didn’t think I was in the mood for anything quite so serious. I finally watched [...]

“Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise” — Bertrand Russell.

I just published An Interview with Chuck Rainey at bassplaying.com. Chuck is one of the most famous sessions bassists from the late 60s through the mid-80s. He’s worked with Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Quincy Jones, and is probably most famous for his work with Steely Dan on their Aja album, and others. Enjoy.

I added The Quotations Page‘s Quotes of the Day to my list of start up tabs in Firefox. Here’s a gem from today’s batch, by Gore Vidal: “Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.”