FISTFULAYEN

I don’t know who this Umair character is, but I certainly find myself agreeing with him from time to time.  Case-in-point, his disagreeing with Gartenberg’s over-simplified statement that “users will accept DRM”.    Of course many users will accept DRM, we see this every day as we sign up more and more people to our [...]

Taste of Chicago, 2005! We ran into Matt Gagnon and Katrina Sigmund at Nextfest and guess what?!  They’re pregnant!  w00t!  Katrina still had on an “I (heart) out of work musicians and tequilla shots” shirt so she hasn’t changed much.  We all went to Taste of Chicago after the ‘fest today (along with Chris Kalaboukis, [...]

A few photos thus far, before I run out of batteries (didn’t bring the camera charger — whoops).  Click here to see a few Nextfest 2005 photos taken by me.  Pictured above, the Philip K. Dick android.  Big ups to Craig Grossman, who is involved with this exhibit.  Good seeing you. Click here to see [...]

Yahoo! Music at Nextfest.

When I was 16 I was an announcer for the jazz radio station, WVPE, in Elkhart, Indiana.  I went to the vocational school where they’re housed and studied radio broadcasting.  They liked me because I could read (unlike my class mates), and gave me a paying gig.  I ran the station a week night or [...]