Are you bummed out by the delayed release of Apple TV?  Is the Anna Nicole Smith stuff bringing you down?  The war in Iraq putting a crimp in your style?

Well, that ain’t nothin’ compared to the plight of the ‘Comedian at the Oscars,’ if Will Ferrel and Jack Black are to be believed.

Man, I do love that.

Seems that the fine folks who host eTM, Dreamhost, had a few problems with their MySQL servers today, bringing this site crashing down around us all, leaving all three people who regularly visit out in the cold. For that, I’d like to apologize to my parents (being the first two who read The Musical), and that guy from Idaho.

I’m off to class now, but, before I go, I just wanted to leave you with this belated Valentine’s thought from my close, personal friend, Unemployed Skeletor*.

*Okay, I’m not really his friend. But I took a photo with him the other day, so it’s all good.

The RIAA wants to mess with open WiFi, saying that if you pirate a song in a Starbucks, they can sue the Starbucks, not you. Which, of course, makes as much sense as just about anything else the RIAA does.

Check out the article on Gizmodo.

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(By the way, this is my first post made using the Digg ‘Blog It!’ function, hence the “Digg Story” link.  Thought you should know.)

…Cisco and Apple have come to an agreement on the ‘iPhone’ dispute.

I’m sure a group hug will follow.

Then head over to Chris Sims’ Invincible Super-Blog to find out what happens, and save yourself $25.

Since I stopped reading Marvel’s Civil War, I have been searching the ol’ message boards to find out the outcome.

Well, let’s just say I’m glad I have stopped buying Marvel books, because I’m so not stoked on this.

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Did you sign up for the RSS feed for eTM?  Have you noticed it’s gone kinda stupid?

Well, it’s ’cause I screwed it up a bit.  M’bad.

I’m now gonna pass out for a bit, since I’ve been up since 4 a.m.

…here’s hoping that Midtown Comics still has tickets to the New York ComicCon that is going on this weekend.

‘Cause that’d make me one happy nerd.

Al Franken is running for Congress.  While I found his book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, funny (and as ‘fair and balanced’ as a FOX News report), I’m finding myself more and more annoyed at him for being to the left what Rush Limbaugh is to the right.

You know, the more I think about it, I think that’s why The 1/2 Hour News Hour, The O’Reilly Factor, Al Franken, and Michael Moore make me mad and I’m okay with The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Keith Olbermann; while the latter can be snarky, and are anything but fair to both sides of the political aisle, they hardly ever talk to their audience like they’re a bunch of idiots.  Reading a book by Franken and Moore, or watching O’Reilly and even that two-minute clip of 1/2 Hour News Hour made me feel as if those guys thought I was an absolute moron, who barely knows how to dress himself let alone understand something as “hard to grasp” as politics.

I suppose it’s the idea that Olbermann, Stewart, and Colbert (okay, not when he’s in character) would listen to someone with a differing point of view (so long as that view was delivered with some form of tact), debate the points the person made, but not dismiss the other person outright because they believe something other than what they themselves believe.  Franken and O’Reilly?  If I called into either of their radio shows and said something they disagreed with, they’d either (a) kick me off the air, (b) do some mean-spirited heckeling, more than likely about points unrelated to the topic at hand, or (c) all of the above.

Alright, back to doing things that are productive instead of ranting on a blog.

The usually super-passionate Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, is warning financial analysts to not be too positive about the financial results of Windows Vista for 2008, according to Yahoo! Finance (via AppleInsider.com).

“I’m really excited about how enthusiastic people are about Vista, but I think some of the revenue forecasts for Vista in 2008 are overly aggressive,” Ballmer said in a meeting for financial analysts. “(Vista) is primarily a chance to sustain what (Windows) revenue we have — not every release is a revenue growing opportunity.”

Uh, Steve? I think XP would have kept selling computers, too… If Vista is not a “revenue growing opportunity,” then why bother releasing it at all?

Wait. No, I’m using logic. Can’t do that when sales are involved… m’bad.