berkleebassist

I do enjoy reading things like this.
Brian Krebs on Safe Online Banking:
An investigative series I’ve been writing about organized cyber crime gangs stealing millions of dollars from small to mid-sized businesses has generated more than a few responses from business owners who were concerned about how best to protect themselves from this type of fraud.
The simplest, most […]

Shamelessly yoinked from Daring Fireball:
Bob Sheppard is 98 years old and has been the P.A. announcer at Yankee Stadium since 1951:
He did his first Yankees game on April 17, 1951, announcing a lineup that included Phil Rizzuto, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio and Yogi Berra.

‘★’
(Originally from NYTimes — The Voice of Yankee Stadium May Retire.)

President Barack Obama. Just wow. Absolutely awesome. A lot of people mentioned some good stuff, & I wanted to highlight some of that here. So here's some choice bits:
Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov:
The White House’s website was updated today after Obama was sworn in. It looks great, but here’s the best news, from the blog:
“One significant […]

Sony's Amazing Crapware-Free PC:
Ed Bott:
Sony is finally taking on its crapware problem. For the past two months, I've been using an astonishingly light and agile Sony VAIO notebook and loving every minute of it. The best part of all was that this machine was absolutely, completely, unequivocally crapware-free, which meant I was able to be […]

I'm on a huge Daring Fireball kick recently, it seems. Gruber's just got me goin'! This time he quotes an article from USA Today reporting on "minimum 50" grading policies:
Their argument: Other letter grades — A, B, C and D — are broken down in increments of 10 from 60 to 100, but there is […]

Fake Steve on the NBC-Zune Deal:
"It's the first time I've seen rats swimming toward a sinking ship."
(Via ★ Daring Fireball by way of Fake Steve Jobs.)

John Gruber, one of my favorite writers, opines this in reference to this article by Saul Hansell, in a report for the NYT Bits Blog on current negotiations between Apple and the major music labels:
So let’s get this straight. The music labels think we should pay more for a song downloaded from a server that […]