Today, I bought tickets for a Pearl Jam concert which will be held 200m (yes,
that’s meters!) from
my house this summer. Adriaan
managed to shock me with a “Well, good luck, you’ll
be in Scotland then!”, but a quick check revealed that
aKademy2007
will only start two days later.
That said, I’m really excited that I’ll get to see Pearl Jam again, and that within a five
minutes walk. I wonder how many people can say that one of their favourite rock bands
are visiting their backyard. :-) Browsing pearljam.com, I
noticed that
they are selling live recordings from various concerts. +1: No DRM stuff; FLAC and MP3
offered and platform independant download application. They even mention Free Software in
their FAQ. Good to see that things can be done different than the Sonys of this world
want us to believe.
More music-related, tomorrow, our new hifi set will be delivered. We (that’s me and Kim)
had chosen it
3 weeks ago, listening to different combinations of amplifiers, cd players and speakers.
The winner is an amplifier and a CD player by Arcam, a british brand and speakers by
Dynaudio (danish apparently). I’m counting the number of nights I’ve got to sleep until
the new toys arrive for some time already. Childhood rocks. :-)
At the same time all this exciting stuff lightens up my private life, it seems that the
call for dot journalists really has had
some great effect. On The Dot There’s a couple of weekly
series running about new stuff in KDE4, among which DannyA’s ever so famous
commit-digest. Be sure to
check it out. Join kde-promo
if you want to help out (there’s also jobs
for PHP coders, drupal gurus and web-people in general).
I gathered that my blog is now also aggregated on
planet.ubuntu, so hi there!
Now playing: Madrugada, Industrial Silence