Sorry about the outage, and the oddness....

I made the mistake of posting a rant about people using other people's wireless networks without permission, and things kind of hit the fan. I'm on the case - for some reason the menu refuses to live on the right side anymore. If you really are jonesing for the links, they're below the posts. I'm working on it.

If you want something to take your mind off things, I'd recommend a trip to the CD store for a CD by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts called Cowboy Bebop Box. It's the soundtrack to an anime TV show done by the John Williams of Japan - Yoko Kanno, and some of the best studio musicians I've ever heard. They've got a sax player on a song called "Goodnight Julia" that makes me cry, and "Tank" has a clarinet that will tear the finish right off the piano bar and drop chills down your spine. It's a mix of 40's experimental club jazz, funky blues, a little rock, a little thrash, a little bit of everything done in the best possible style.