Windows 7

haha!

Brilliant Review

http://preview.tinyurl.com/bspears-sucks

Requires iTunes.

This is rather cool.

Using an iPod touch to control my computer through VNC is rather awesome.


The youtube vid is Jesus is Just Alright. The only good christian song I have come across.

For anyone who was worrying, relax, it's okay, I still continue to be awesome. It's quite miraculous, really, but not at all surprising.

I continue to be awesome.

I continue to be awesome.

I'm awesome.

I'm awesome.

I wrote a letter to the paper!

Hello! Check this out.

ORIGINAL, UNEDITED VERSION!!

Last year, I decided that I wanted a CD called “The Fragile” by Nine Inch Nails (NIN). However, to my disgust, I could find only one NIN CD , which I happened to already own. This, in my opinion, is completely absurd, as I am not asking for some obscure indie (independent) band. Nine Inch Nails has been quoted as one of the 100 greatest rock artists of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. The band has sold over twenty million records worldwide, and has received two Grammy awards. I am not some kind of strange person who listens to obscure music that nobody cares for.

I understand that in Singapore’s small population, there is only perhaps a small number of people who listen to NIN. However this frustrates me because even larger stores, such as the That CD Shop at Great World City (which should be renamed to That Pop Shop, in my opinion), out of a huge catalogue of at least two thousand albums from numerous artists, had only one NIN CD (which I already had)!

Sadly, it is not only the relatively small niche of Industrial music that lacks supply in Singapore. Even Queens of the Stone Age (QotSA), a rather popular hard rock band, is extremely difficult to find, although hard rock is a very popular genre of music. Music seems to me as if it is selected for its saleability rather than for its fans. I am certain that I am not the only one in Singapore who is neglected, simply because we do not succumb to the marketing for the pathetic Pop “music” that is being sold in all CD shops today.

This in my opinion is the main reason for the rampant illegal downloading of music in Singapore. My only other option is to buy these CDs, at great cost, from websites such as Amazon or eBay, which is an extremely slow and tedious process. If CD shop owners stopped considering the potential profit that they can make, and started looking at (or rather, listening to) the music instead, the music culture of Singapore, which is rather under-appreciated, can truly thrive.

What is most absurd in all of this is that I cannot even find local bands’ CDs in Singapore itself! Bands such as West Grand Boulevard, or Withered Tree, which have their songs played on the radio, are nowhere to be found.

This is a sorry state of affairs. The music industry (a icreative process should not even become an industry!) is already full of pathetic unoriginal pop that is made merely for profit, and to see this attitude be passed down to Singapore at a relatively low level depresses me.

I thank you for reading this letter, and hope that you sympathise with my views.

Sidhant Srikumar, 16

For some interesting views on the profiteering of record companies of today, look at this link: http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/05/14/nine-inch-nails-trent-reznor-slams-records-labels-for-sorry-state-of-the-industry/