Thus Endeth HD-DVD

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An ad from Tiger Direct — I guess if you are looking for an upconverting DVD player, this isn’t too bad a choice if you also have a few HD-DVDs.

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Blu-Ray was a big win for Sony, considering their other strikeouts (memory stick, BetaMax, mini-disc).

Grumbling about Amazon MP3

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amazonmp31.jpgI think that Amazon MP3 is a great service, but the pricing is _so_ wrong.  I considered downloading the latest Sheryl Crow disk, but it is priced only $1 less than the actual CD.  I don’t understand economically how that is a win for me — I lose the album art and I have to preserve the bits myself instead of having a CD as backup (after it is ripped into my music player).  I believe that if the pricing were closer to 50% of the CD purchase price, this would be a huge win for the consumer and the music industry.  It’s a no-brainer to justify $5 for a download.

6 Years A-Blogging

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blogging.jpgI just realized that I’ve been blogging now for 6 years.  The first post to my web site (then k2.com) was in February 2002. Hard to imagine that I’ve been doing this for that long.  I know that I wasn’t one of the first bloggers out there — Wikipedia suggests that the term itself was coined in 1997.  But 6 years is a pretty long time to be doing anything on the Internet.  So perhaps that’s a sufficient enough accomplishment. 

Sort of like writing multiple blog posts the same day.