Trey's iTunes Playlist

If you use iTunes, check out Trey's celebrity playlist. Pretty good mix of stuff, in my opinion. He's been talking up The Arcade Fire pretty heavily in the past year, so it's no surprise to see them on there. I like them too, but for a band with one album, I don't know if they deserve all of the praise they are getting quite yet. (Of course Harry Potter picked the same song for his playlist as well)

For the record, I know I post about these playlists a lot, but I have yet to buy one. I just find them interesting - kind of a window into a personal side of musicians/celebrities that you may not otherwise get. I'd love to see Amazon do this with books or IMDB or Netflix with movies.

From a more innocent time...

Here is a book that Ann found at work today:

End of an Error

Boston Dirt Dogs can be a little mean spirited sometimes, and they have a penchant for stirring up controversy for no reason, but you have to love their headline on the Renteria trade: "End of an Error."

For what it's worth, I agree with this trade - they overpaid for "Edgah" and his errors killed us last year. I do have a sneaking suspicion that the Sox may be looking to sign a certain free agent shortstop that wore number 5 when he was here. I'm not so sure that would be a good idea.

Site Feeds

I made some nerdy behind-the-scenes changes to the blogs, adding site feeds for both of them, and a trackback feature to the news blog (not that anyone ever links to an individual post on this blog, but whatever).

If you want to subscribe to the news blog, copy the following URL into your favorite newsreader: http://www.netspace.org/~mielcarz/atom.xml.

If you want to subscribe to Sadie's blog, copy this: http://www.netspace.org/~mielcarz/babyblog/atom.xml.

If you use a good web browser like Safari or Firefox, you should see a little icon in the address bar (on the right) when you go to either of the pages. Then click on that, and you should be all set. If you don't know what any of this means, just ignore it, and come to the pages like you always do.

4 more minutes of ads...

Maybe you have seen that Apple is adding TV shows to the iTunes store. At $2 a pop for a fairly low resolution video, I'm not really interested in buying any, but I did notice something interesting. Law & Order episodes available for sale average about 44min in length. However, if you go back in time and check out old Knight Rider episodes, you'll see that they average 48min. Both of these shows were shown in an hour of real time, so it looks like NBC has added 4 minutes of commercials to the average hour of television in the last 20 years. At this rate, in 220 years, the entire hour will be ads! And the networks wonder why they are losing viewers to HBO and DVDs.