Jul 14 2012
I’ve recently been reading through Steve Jobs’ biography, a phenomenal work by Walter Isaacson. A point that Isaacson keeps coming back to throughout the book is that Steve Jobs revolutionized six different industries: animated movies (through Pixar), personal computing, tablet computing, phones, digital publishing, and music. I don’t disagree with Isaacson. Jobs did revolutionize the …
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Jan 18 2012
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) are two bills currently mingling in the United States House of Representatives. It would take too much time and effort for me to explain how ludicrous it is that we have misinformed politicians writing litigation for an internet that they apparently do …
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Oct 14 2010
Before reading this post, please first read the poorly constructed Cedars article here. I have read a lot of ill written and poorly researched articles in Cedars in my time at Cedarville, but this may be the worst. Four years of Cedarville, and this is what “thinking critically” has delivered? An attack on an individual …
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Dec 03 2008
Joe Kmetz and I were on our way to Krista’s house over Turkey Break and I had designated Joe as the DJ for the trip. At some point during the drive we ended up listening to “Hotel California,” probably the best song the Eagles ever wrote and performed. This spawned a discussion as to the …
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Nov 19 2008
After viewing a few John Cage videos on YouTube (like this one, this one, and possibly this one), I thought to myself, “What the heck … I could write this crap.” And so, using his song 4’33” as my deepest inspiration, I proceeded to do just that. In fact, I made an entire album, with …
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Dec 25 2007
Since I want to be able to claim credit for this before it happens, I decided to blog about where I think the future of Digital Media lies. The current fight is between whether to produce solely HD DVDs or Blu-Ray Discs, though that fight is almost over seeing as how the HD DVD format …
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Jul 22 2007
So, apparently, since I own an iPod, and chances are you own an iPod, we’re both pirates. Being accused of breaking the law by none other than the RIAA (Record Industry Association of America). Of course, this is in Canada, not America, but still. Yet another reason not to live in Canada. Canada has a …
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Jan 24 2007
First of all, allow me to add to the all-too-common saying: “I” before “e,” except after “c”, and in weird words like “weird” and “seizure.” Second of all, if you have a girlfriend, boyfriend, fiance, fiancee, husband, wife, WHATEVER… that’s great. Fantastic. Good for you. But nobody wants to see you all over each other …
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