Jeremy Lister EP I would like to recommend the new Jeremy Lister EP, 'Just One Day'. It contains four songs and it's available on iTunes/Napster for about four bucks. You can preview three of the tracks on his MySpace page. The one called 'Hostage' is my favorite.

Olivia Wells Broome Here is a recent snapshot of our little girl, taken with our Nokia phone.

The Death of High Fidelity Rolling Stone: In the age of MP3s, sound quality is worse than ever...

"David Bendeth, a producer who works with rock bands like Hawthorne Heights and Paramore, knows that the albums he makes are often played through tiny computer speakers by fans who are busy surfing the Internet. So he's not surprised when record labels ask the mastering engineers who work on his CDs to crank up the sound levels so high that even the soft parts sound loud."

There is much more. It's a sad story, indeed.

Best Songs of 2007? Rolling Stone names the Top 100 Songs of 2007. How far down the list did you go before your BS meter went crazy? I had to stop at number one. Number seven would have been a decent pick for the top spot, however. Her personal issues aside, Amy Winehouse has certainly left a permanent mark on pop music with her great album.

Office 2007 SP1 Microsoft has released Office 2007 Service Pack 1.

CompUSA to Close Shop Good riddance. I had the unfortunate experience of working for this company for three months. Sales people were often poorly trained and/or dishonest and they would regularly make promises to customers about warranty/replacement/service plans that were not accurate or worse, misleading. I was hired as a technician, but the store manager made it quite obvious, early on, that he didn't care if I ever fixed anything, as long as I sold more products and warranties. This didn't sit very well with me. I had no interest in sales.