Cynicism is the last refuge of the idealist

Here’s an interesting story Mick Hucknallis rerecording his entire back catalogue so that he can have control of it for licensing rather than Warner Records.

The new recordings of global hits such as Stars and A New Flame will be owned by Hucknall’s own label, simplyred.com.
“Warner has all of the rights to the original recordings, but they don’t seem to be doing an awful lot with them,” says the band’s manager, Ian Grenfell. “We think we can do more with those recordings than they can. We’ve got a dozen people and all they work on is Simply Red.”

Personally I can’t bear to hear his voice for a second but I appload his standing up to the bullyish record companies. He’s also created his own record label to sell his work bypassing the record companies entirely - talk about shape of things to come

More on the notion that the ancient home of odysseus has been found

More on the notion that the ancient home of odysseus has been found

More on the notion that the ancient home of odysseus has been found

More on the notion that the ancient home of odysseus has been found

I blogged about this last week but here are some more details on One Laptop Per Child’s fantiastic idea

What terrible news - Ronnie Barker hasdied. I’m quite shocked to find out that he was only 76, he seemed to have been around forever.

Interesting article from NewsForge examining the recent war of words between Microsoft an Intel on one side who are supporting HD DVD and HP and Dell on the other supporting Blu Ray. It pretty much damns Microsoft for being duplicitous and twisting facts to suit itself. Now there’s a surprising conclusion, eh!

Microsoft touted the coming of its “all new, all 32-bit” operating system — Windows 95 — for years. But when Chicago finally appeared, it was neither all new nor all 32-bit. A few high-tech journalists of the day — but only a few — were clueful and caring enough to call them on it. Most of the trade press were not competent or brave enough to say otherwise.