Folk Music

Jazz musician Louis Armstrong and blues musician Big Bill Broonzy have both been attributed the remark "All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song."

1 Billion iTunes later

I was considering purchasing my first iTune from Apple's website Music Store on Sunday (Feb 26) . . . a great tune from Randy Travis, A Better Class of Losers but I decided against it. Darn, if I had done so, maybe I'd have been the 1 billionith tune buyer and been showered with gifts like Alex Ostrovsky was when he downloaded Coldplay's "Speed of Sound". Apple has only been in the "itune" business for 3 years!
Mr Ostrovsky (16 years old) received 1 20" iMac G5, 10 fifth generation iPods and a $10,000 iTunes gift card.
That could have been me.

Tour of California

Did you get a chance to watch any of the Amgen Tour of California? Worldclass racers from Europe and the US raced from San Franciso to Redondo Beach in the inaugural event watched by over 1,300,000 during the route that came down Big Sur Highway 1 to San Luis Obispo through Santa Barbara and on to Redondo Beach. Many of the riders have competed with Lance Armstrong and won stages in the Tour of France and other major tours in Europe. check it out at TOC Floyd Landis, former teammate of Lance Armstrong won the 596 mile event.

Comparing Diets for Weight Loss and Heart Disease Risk Reduction

The Journal of American Medecine reported last year an interesting comparison

click here

Google . . . . . is it time ?

Just in case you've been waiting to buy Google GOOG, it's now fallen a breathtaking 26%. That number doesn't impress you? OK, how about $475 to $342, that's a $133 haircut in a little over a month.

Bicycle Tour de France . . . . . nah

The Tour of California stops in San Luis Obispo after completing the leg down Big Sur.

Learn more at The Tour of California

Real Estate Values

interesting website to look at values

zillow.com

Voice Over Internet

Have you thought of making a telephone call over the internet? There are many computer/internet based systems but what about another way. My friend Steve Curtis works with a company that offers another way to save money on long distance Chatterbug

Fix Congress, Not the Lobbyists

THIS IS ONE OF THOSE moments when you realize Congress is not an altogether serious body. There have been others. One that comes to mind is the frantic effort several decades ago to stop the National Football League from blacking out home games on local television (unless stadium tickets have already sold out). This time it's worse. The current drive for lobbying reform is purely cosmetic. And it skirts the real issue. Lobbyists, for all their selfish intentions and dubious methods, aren't the problem. Members of Congress and the way they spend taxpayers' money are. The case that does involves Republican Rep. DukeCunningham of California, who resigned from Congress after admitting taking bribes. This case exposed the incentives to corruption produced by the spending and budget practices of Congress. For a price, Cunningham would slip spending measures into appropriations bills with practically no one's noticing. The sheer complexity and opaqueness of the budget made it easy to do so. read more at the weekly standard

Supergrass in Bakersfield

The California Bluegrass Association is putting on the first big Bluegrass Festival in Bakersfield. I'm here, it's great and the music on stage is excellent but the jamming in the rooms and hallways of the Holiday Inn is just as exciting. Learn about it at this link . . . . http://supergrasscalifornia.org/