iPod Blues Redux...

Great! the ONE Comment I get on my iPod blues post is from some spammer trying to sell me some Life Insurance. Who is this "kristal249claire" anyway?

Through My Life, Being Bit(ten) and Byting Back: iPod Blues ...

Ever since, my iPod gave up on me, I've almost stopped listening and buying music. Life has gone a little boring lately. I can't get myself to fork over the $299 for a new one. I think I'm going to buy one of those iPod Shuffles this time. At least I won't feel so bad they trash themselves

Foobar

Anyone who programs computers for a living has probably encountered some function called "foo" or a class named "Bar", or some entity called Foobar. I was always curious about where that came from. Turns out that Foobar was a actually a polite spelling of the military term "FUBAR" which means "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition".

... and reading again

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)" (J.K. Rowling)

According to a Harry Potter fan @ work, I've completely missed the point of the book. So now I'm reading every line very carefully.

Currently Reading ...

"Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective" (Diomidis Spinellis)

Currently Listening to ...

How It Ends from the album "How It Ends" by Devotchka Check out this trailer too.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)

Just finished reading this one today, and I have to admit that I liked it, and this is from a person who actually hated the Lord of the Rings (the book not the movies). The more I read the books, the more I'm convinced that J. K. Rowling's inspiration came from Star Wars Episode IV. Especially, the part when Obi-Wan Kenobi told Luke that Darth Vader had murdered. Think of the references to the Dark Side of magic ( vs. the dark side of the force), Death Eaters (vs Death Star?), tatooed acolytes (vs the tatoos on Darth Maul), extremely powerful good wizards teaching young students (contrast the role of Dumbledore the old teacher and Yoda the ancient Jedi Master), the Rise of the Dark Side after being being beaten by the good wizards (the ancient war between the Jedi and the Sith), and finally think of Tom Riddle changing his name to Lord Voldemort ( Palpatine to Darth Sidious, Anakin to Darth Vader, Count Dooku to Darth Tyranus(?)) I have hunch that in the later books we're going to find out the real story of why Tom Riddle was seduced by the Dark Side and what is his actual relationship with Harry Potter, and what Voldemort really wants is to turn Harry to the Dark Side.

... On to Book V