Archive for October, 2006

Letter Bomb

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

The following odd and wonderful things have been found stuffed in the apartment mailbox in the past week.

First the saga of Sony’s rootkit reparations has come to a close with the delivery of an unmolested CD and $8.40 worth of justice. The mailing was fairly quick and they actually took the effort to contact […]

The Futureheads - News and Tributes

Friday, October 13th, 2006

While the Futureheads won me over with the angular guitar work, frenetic pop songwriting and impeccable vocal harmonies of their debut it wasn’t until I caught the band live that I pegged what made them so endearing. Between the pompous, ironic rock of Louis XVI and the overblown light show that was Hot Hot Heat, […]

The Dead $8.40s: Chapter 2

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

Following up on this, by the 29th of September I received an email from the “SONY BMG CD Technologies Settlement Administrator” with links to my Dead 60s and Thelonious Monk downloads. From a technical perspective, the links to the downloads are hidden behind a CGI script that takes a hashed key parameter. The hash is […]