Keola Donaghy sums up my feelings on Apple's Music Store exactly: quote...please don't ignore the greater potential of this service to level the playing field for artists and smaller labels who cannot get the attention of the major labels that are now available on your service.endquote

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The Blogger fail-safe: pictures of your cat. In this case, Toby, our cute, lovable and ornery tabby.

Random Stuff:

• Thanks to Scoble linking to this post, I'm now[#41](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/41) on Popdex. I'll be gone in a couple days, but it's been fun!
• TidBITS is looking for a CMS, Zope/Plone mentioned as a possibility.
• I rode 16 miles yesterday, in 1 hour, 20 minutes. My longest ride this year.

Dave invents the whitelist.

Of course, no journey would be complete without a few choice temptations along the way.

Chris Ruzin re-arranged his archive section partly based on my work on the new calendar on this site. Cooooool.

Jodi posted last night about an Iranian woman we got to spend last evening with. She and her family survived the ten year war with Iraq, and had to flee their homes on the Iran/Iraq border when Saddam's troops came. It was fascinating to hear.

Jodi had a job interview yesterday. She's not taking it though, and she reports on that and other news on her site today.

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Yes, Clark got hisself a brand new toy. Boy am I jealous. No, I don't have a purpose for it. No, I never used the one I have (a 120) enough. No, I could not afford it, even at the low price he paid for it.

Mark put up a nifty fridge magnet poetry page and contest. Here's my entry, titled "tablet Haiku" in honor of NEC's new toy.

Robert Scoble responds to my last post:

I find this funny.

My good friend Jim recently released a Mac OS X installer for Plone, a Zope-based CMS.

Doc Searls re Eldred:

We don't turn around a pervasive mentality, anchored in conceptual metaphors older than most oaks, in one court calendar, one congressional term, or perhaps even one decade.

Ok, so we rearranged our office and today realized that we did it backwards. Silly us! Don't you hate that?

One thing I did not mention in my last post about the Ivy Architectural Innovations' site: it has a blog!

Well, yesterday Jodi and I went hiking with her cousins, Brady and Carly. This morning I got up and went mountain biking with them. I've not had this much cardio-vascular exercise in ages, and I'm feeling it!

I composed my R.E.M. and Jesus Christ post in OmniOutliner (for which I still need to get a license - outlines of < 20 lines are useless) and it reminded me once again of my love of writing in an outliner. I really would like to have a "compose-in-outline" mode in Sid one day.

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