And Now, Here's an Old, Familiar Tune: The Y2K Blues
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By Frank Michael Russell, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 18--Here's a quick rundown of news you may have missed last week, culled from reports by our staff and wire services.
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Microsoft is, for once, trying to play nicely.  This is why it's failing.
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If you fled Wall Street eight years ago â remember Y2K? â and came back today, you might conclude that nothing much happened while you were gone. The Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks ended the last decade at 1469.25. Now, points out Howard Silverblatt of S.&P., it is at 1468.36. A decline [...].
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Will âSuper Duper Tuesday,â the phrase coined by CNNâs Bill Schneider to describe the unprecedented crowd of primaries on Feb. 5, have a longer shelf life than Y2K?
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A new song, âBig Joe Blues,â takes the Soviet regime to task. But in fact, Pete Seeger, 87, made similar statements years ago, at least as early as his 1993 book, âWhere Have All the Flowers Gone?â
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Still listening to this classic Dead song.  And writing about it on Twitter... It's an MP3 that I ripped from the Mars Hotel album. Which I bought on CD many years ago. I've listened to this track about 1000 times. When I play it it puts a smile on my face. Because Cucamonga is a place with no pride, imho.  It's a joke, kind of like Truckin makes fun of New Orleans, a town that done the Dead wrong, once, a long time ago. Now if it were on vinyl I would have wore it out a long time ago. I'm sure there was a copy of the song on the disk Apple stole from me. There you have it RIAA. You can go after Apple. I'll support you because they stole from both of us. They have no right to listen to PofC. I imagine Steve Jobs and Phil Shindler sitting around smokin a doobie listening to Phil Lesh sing, thinking "Dave has good taste in music." BTW, Cucamonga is a suburb in southern CA. Near Ontario. Probably very non-descript. Might have been interesting 70 years ago. And that's your bedtime story for Saturday, boys and girls. Have a nice day, don't hit your brother (or sister) and be nice to the sitter!
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It is unsettling evidence of oneâs own age and station in life to find that electronic music â once virgin territory for the young explorer â now includes within its ranks a small army of grand old men.
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This weekend's early switch to daylight-saving time was billed as a little re-enactment of the Y2K computer problem at the turn of the millennium. And as it happened, the daylight bug appeared to have equally minor results.
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What used to matter isn't so critical anymore.
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By Mike Dougherty, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jun. 22--thingsthatwere.blogspot.com   I love old stuff, and this blog has scads of pix of old stuff that once was. Some of it is still around. Lots of it isn't or is in a serious state of disrepair. Pretty cool stuff. Check it out.
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Machines that only a few years ago seemed to be the stuff of fantasy are slowly but surely reaching the mainstream.  Photos: IBM's Blue Gene/L  Photos: Barcelona's big blade
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Tycho:   One of the questions during a a panel at PAX had to do with the italicised line at the end of each day's post.  They're almost always song lyrics, and back before we were paying for bandwidth (and before RIAA rape gangs were prowling the web) these lines used to link directly to the MP3.  I maintained the practice afterward because it's sort of like a song of the day, and I like the idea that someone might be struck by a strange turn of phrase and seek out a piece of music.  It also serves as a gauge of my mental state at the moment.  Today's song, for example, is Stan Rodgers' incredible live version of the sea shanty "Rolling Down To Old Maui," which Pandora kicked out after about a week of tuning the station.  I've listened to it about thirty times today.    The person who asked the question at the con complimented my musical tastes, and I accepted the compliment, but I'm almost always late to the scene.  I just bought Interpol's "Turn On The Bright Lights," for chrissakes.  I'm mostly lucky to know people who do have unique library.  I told him I would mention a few of my favorite bands on the site, but then I forgot.  Essentially, it's music that cool people were listening to a decade ago (where applicable).  I am a musical carrion bird.    He wanted me to list off a few bands, and I said I would last week, but then I forgot.  These are the first ten albums I could think of.    "Starless" by Shiner
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Yesterday's technology designs are becoming popular among those in their teens and 20's eager to usher back a time they experienced only barely, if at all.
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Rivers of ice at the Equator &#151; foretold in the 2nd century, found in the 19th &#151; are now melting away in this new century, returning to the realm of lore and fading photographs.
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Geek chic of years gone by isn't so cool today, as technology races on.
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The old music industry is dead. It just doesn't know it yet.
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You may have only 24 years left on Earth. But don't change your plans just yet.