0.077: ...priceless!

It's Friday, I'm back from a three-day trip out to EMC's Santa Clara Executive Briefing Center, the New England weather is the best its been all year, and somehow I just don't feel about blogging enterprise storage technology today.

So I won't.

I have taken a fair bit of ribbing this week about my apparent taste in music (many of you missed the fine print at the bottom of my last post). Sadly, the experiment failed - I have roughly the same number of subscribers this week as I had before enlisting the Britney factor. This week's musical reference will probably just dig me in deeper, but I'm wondering if maybe I picked an artist on the wrong side of their career slopes.

But you have to admit, when a major pop star names her "emancipation" album after your company, that's pretty special. Add in her TV & radio promo tour and the inevitable concert series, and that adds up to a boatload of global goodwill and brand awareness.

And while I most definitely am not a fan-o-Britney, I will admit to appreciating (and enjoying) most of Mariah's music.

The E=MC² album is perhaps a bit more "produced" than I prefer, but undoubtedly it will give her at least a couple more #1 singles - enough probably to put her atop the Billboard charts for all time total chart-topping hits. In fact, "Touch My Body" has already topped Billboard, pushing her past Elvis (who had 17 BB #1 hits). Two more and she'll tie The Beatles with 20.

If only she'd released the album a couple of weeks earlier - I could have had some REAL fun with it on Lirpa Sloof Day!

 

FWIW, my traveling entertainment device of choice these days is the Apple iPod touch 32 GB I received for my birthday, in which I currently carry 3,342 songs by 791 artists on 296 albums (complete with album art), spanning 41 genres. Since I was traveling this week, I also added an audio book (I Am Legend), a handful of wide screen movies from iTunes, plus The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (which should be mandatory viewing for every person on the planet, IMHO). All that (plus 4.5GB unused memory) crammed into a wafer-thin wifi enabled device that has sufficient battery power to last a whole day on a single charge - the personal entertainment world has come a long way.

By the way - I've switched most of my music download business over to Amazon MP3. Their music is all DRM-Free, and it comes in Lame-ripped 256kbps VBR MP3 format, saving me the conversion step that Apple's AAC forces me to go through. If you haven't checked it out yet - you should! 

Hope you have a Great Weekend!

(Yup - this is a total "puff post." I promise more tech next week...it just wasn't happening today)

 

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Comments

[MarcFarley]

Oh geez Anarchist, this could be a very embarrassing topic, so I'll bite. Christina is my guilty pleasure diva. I can almost do without the eye candy, but the voice and what she does with it... On a long airplane ride sometimes all I need is "a little something that I can't get at home".

Thanks for the tip on Amazon - now I've just gone and wasted an hour looking up obscure old favorites (Les Stanches a Sophie and Memory Serves) which weren't available for download, but available as re-issued CDs.

[Josh]

So what about Seagate's move to cripple STEC's ssds?

http://infiniteadmin.com/emc-symmetrix-dmx-4-san-in-seagate-patent-jeopardy

[the storage anarchist]

It would be inappropriate for me to comment on anything related to pending litigation, sorry.