Technology- Gotta Love it!

Das Behr just LOVES technology. especially consumer technology. How fitting it is to be here in the remnants of Silicon Valley, sitting at my local gay bar enjoying a nice bottle of IPA, with my notebook computer attached to an anonymous un-secured broadband Wi-Fi port and my trusty Nokia cellphone on the side. It's a virtual office without the annoying intra-office politicos. The partner of a friend insists that I ought to be out pounding on doors and filling out job application paperwork. I tried to explain that the job hunt scenario that he once knew, hasn't been in fashion for nearly a decade and a half. Whereas email has become the defacto method of business communication, it would only make crystal clear sense that "job hunting" would become virtual as well. Needless to say, my virtual office hits the road every day around 14:00 hours. First stop is usually Renegades where I sit outside with the above mentioned brew and check over the want ads on Craig's List. The battery on Das Behr Notebook has a capacity of about two hours, so when the battery gets low, I pack-up and head over to Panera Bread, order some food and get back to work- this time on AC power and their free Wi-Fi connection.

Finally, I'm getting some headway. I've been in contact with a company up in The City- who say that I look fantastic on paper. I've had two telephone interviews last week and now they want a face-to-face interview at their office sometime mid-week in early May. There's also another company vying for my attention. I have a phone interview scheduled for tomorrow morning around 09:30 hours.

Keeping fingers, toes and eyes crossed I hope the interviews go well. The gig in San Francisco would be nice as would the latest gig option located in Palo Alto. Either or at this juncture, GR1FT3R loves the open road as much as I do, besides this tooling around on city surface streets is wrecking havoc with my gas mileage!

Internet radio

The time has come for the RIAA to get a back handed slap... I think they are trying to create a monopoly on how music is distributed, marketed and consumed. They are mighty and powerful, but i think a boycott of their members' works of musical art forms must be done in order to reach a compromise. Internet radio and streaming audio has become a method of getting new music into or rather onto the computers of millions of people. To slam webcasters with a 300% increase on fees is insane!

I think it will lead to more illgel ways of music distribution. P2Ps were only the beginning.

So Sayeth Das Behr