Maszman Speaks!

I’ve added Djan​gol​ogy​.net to my blogroll. It’s a nice gui­tar site, devoted pri­mar­ily to Gypsy Jazz gui­tar, ala Django Rein­hardt, but with some gen­eral music the­ory thrown in. Check it out.

Folks in West­ern NY are used to going back and forth over the Cana­dian bor­der with lit­tle has­sle. But under a pol­icy being con­sid­ered by the fed­eral gov­ern­ment, tak­ing a quick trip to Canada may soon require U.S. pass­port. I won­der how this will work with the new Rochester-to-Toronto fast ferry ser­vice. It’s cer­tainly an odd time to be build­ing such a cross-border service.

From Wired, Coder Finds New Way to Swap Tunes. Jim Speth, for­merly of Apple, is releas­ing iCom­mune for music shar­ing on OS X.

Mac OS X is good for Linux? Matthew Rothen­berg thinks so. I think so too, I haven’t been this upbeat about com­put­ing since the 80’s.

If you live in the US, it’s likely that most of the radio sta­tions in your area are owned by a very small num­ber of com­pa­nies (maybe as few as two). Sen. Russ Fein­gold (D-Wisc.) is intro­duc­ing a bill that will limit the num­ber of sta­tions a com­pany can own in any one market.

AOL Time Warner just announced it’s biggest loss ever. In addi­tion, Ted Turner is step­ping down as vice-chairman in a unex­pected move.