The men’s a capella group Straight No Chaser is back this year with another great Christmas album, "Christmas Cheers". In the spirit of their career launching version of "12 Days of Christmas", this album’s "Christmas Can-Can" is a lot of un.
The Christmas "season" seems to start earlier every year, the "Christmas Can-Can" pokes some good-hearted fun at the phenomenon.
My brother introduced me to a new site recently called Blogged. My first thought was I didn’t need another new site where I needed to have a blog format to keep updated. Blogged isn’t really like that though.
The Blogged website provides a place for people to talk about and discuss the news, not just read about it. How often do you really become educated about a topic and take that knowledge to have a discussion with others about what’s happening around all of us? The Blogged website helps that happen.
At Blogged, our vision is to provide a destination where people can talk about news with their friends and family. Not only do we provide the breaking news from various media sources, but we also try to create conversation by integrating social discussions from your trusted network.
Traditionally, the way people interact with news is very static and one-dimensional — you get the facts of what happened in the world with very little commentary or color. But in this new Web 2.0 age, we believe that news should be interactive and discussed between yourself and the people you choose to engage. We hope to make "reading the news" an engaging, social activity.
Use Blogged to learn about the news and discuss it with others, not just keep writing your own opinions without discussion with others.
I was over at a friends house today and he purchased some Blu-Ray DVD movies recently because they were on sale, but he doesn’t have a Blu-Ray player yet. His HP laptop computer has a Blu-Ray drive on it and an HDMI output.
The thought was that he could connect his laptop into his Sharp 45" LCD TV and enjoy the Blu-Ray movies he just bought. Not so much.
If he tried to watch the movies on his computer, everything worked fine. As soon as he plugged in the HDMI cable between the laptop and the television it didn’t work.
It would start to play, but then a message would display telling him he couldn’t play the media due to copyright restrictions on the media.
This seems really backwards to me and why I have a big problem with copy protection. I don’t have a problem with people protecting their content, but I do have a problem with how it’s implemented.
This is a great example of where it’s screwed up!