April, 24, 2001 archives

i resumed ripping my cd collection not too long ago. i'm up to 113 albums by 63 artists, or just over five gigs of music. this is a little more than a quarter of my cd collection. songs are starting to show up in my playlist that i don't recognize because i haven't listened to them in so long.

there's a possible cbs and cnn alliance, and news corp. is talking about buying upn. all very interesting. one trend that seems to be growing, and i heartily approve, is that networks are rebroadcasting shows on the smaller networks or cable channels sooner. lifetime showed episodes of 'once & again' a few weeks after they aired on abc, usa shows episodes of 'law & order: svu' a few days after they air on nbc, and apparently 'the weakest link' is going to be rebroadcast on the pax network soon. why is this good? i can still catch shows that the big networks counterprogram against each other. (like this whole survivor vs. friends fiasco.) and with my tivo, i don't really care what network or when the shows are on.

the baby bells want to provide long-distance data traffic, and not have to open up their local networks. hopefully rep. markey, whose been at this whole telecommunications legislation thing for a very long time, will prevail in not letting the baby bells run rampant over consumers. (can anyone explain to me why caller id costs over $6 a month?)

if oleo is short for oleomargarine, how come most people call it margarine? oleo just sounds so much cooler. it is referred to as the very formal oleomargarine in the us code. oh well, as long as you don't call it butter.