Caribou Coffee is doing an IPO. Great for them. Somebody needs to give *$’s a run for their money – well sort of. Starbucks (*$) opened more stores last year than Caribou has total. I’ve never been to one, but there is one in the town I grew up in, so I’ll have to visit sometime.
The only stores around me are Starbucks. Closest local shop is 15 minutes away. 🙁
Wow… Over 1 million tunes for $60/year. I’d say $5/mo (like the Yahoo ad does) but that would be a lie. If you want to pay by the month it is $6.99. Still a deal. Less than half of what the cost of a similar offering from Rhapsody (Rhapsody to-go is 14.99/mo). Downside is of course they are DRM enabled Windows Media files. You can use them from 3 computers however, and unforunately I don’t have a lack of windoze computers around the house. You are “renting” a music collection and you know what? I’m fine with that. The albums I love I’ll probably still buy. Today I buy quite a few albums that I don’t care for except a song or two. I can buy just those songs on Yahoo for 79 cents now (If I still like them after hearing them 20 times). You can also take the music to a DRM enabled MP3 player.
For $5/mo it is worth it to listen to just about any music you want. The WMA files can be downloaded to your hard drive for offline use but they will expire I guess if you don’t connect or cancel the subscription. The software is pretty buggy. It logs me off periodically and then after I log in it doesn’t let me stream music – restarting the program fixes it. It is very web centric and is pretty slow right now. How would you like to size that application deployment?
Ok, so when can I do this with movie and TV shows Yahoo?
We knew this all along. Here is a study on the antioxidant levels in coffee with some pretty interesting information. Maybe some of those people that gave up coffee for teas (because of the high level antioxidants) should reconsider. I need a “coffee is good for you” page.
Finally had a few moments to upgrade WordPress to a version that can
handle bulk spam… So everything is now working again.
You really should be able to blog from anywhere – Right?
Went to CoffeeFest a few weeks back (http://www.coffeefest.com. It was a good time learning more about the specialty coffee business and drinking free espresso samples all afternoon. Saturday Kim and I did a cupping seminar where they taught all the basics of cupping coffees. It was very well done and enjoyed it.
Geeks only. Made me giggle.
Another free book available from the server side! J2EE Architect’s Handbook Looks useful and the price is right.
The Server Side has a free book on servlets and JSP… Sometimes they disappear so download it!
Wow. Is Sun giving gifts away before they fold? Open Sourcing Java? They also announced Solaris. Last week their leaders said hardware was going to be free (uh, isn’t that Sun’s bread and butter?).