I never knew

A new term has been coined, Alterpreneur, and it fits pretty well with my thinking.

Alterpreneurs are small business owner managers who went into business for lifestyle reasons, and as an alternative to the nine-to-five of a traditional job and the one size fits all lifestyle that goes with it. They are not motivated primarily by money or career. Instead, they see running a business as an opportunity to have greater control over their lives and be ‘happier’.

Some very nice, very small places with innovative solutions and great design choices. My favorites are this one and this one.

Ok, a bit late but I’ve finally added archives to Yulzine, I’m pretty happy with the result, took quite a bit of tweaking to merge the entries in the Textpattern install I’m using. I’ll probably reuse some of what I found to enhance some other parts of the site.

(Untested in IE so far)

Boris posted an innocent (to me anyway) screen grab of software downloading a copy of Revenge of The Sith which got AJ thinking about the whole pirating issue, some interesting stuff in the comments, I’m copying my answer to have “in my stuff”:

I’ve never downloaded a pirated movie and only a few tv shows. Not for some higher moral stance either way, I just don’t take the time to do it. Just mentioning that before going further.

The reason loads of actors work for crappy salaries isn’t pirated movies it’s the 20 millions “stars” are payed or rather, it factors in more heavily than pirated movies. George Lucas is a billionnaire or close to it based on a few good ideas, some imagination, luck and a good sense of the biz. But it’s also based on all the “little people” ’s work. I’m much more disapointed in the millions upon millions he’s making based on merchandising designs that little people created, for which they get nothing, than by the few hundreds of thousands who might download instead of going to the theater.

I sense a great imbalance in the Force AJ and it’s not caused by downloads it’s caused by money grabs from those controlling the business. Musicians are starving but 50cent is having 30 000$ parties, who breaks the system more, people creating “stars” out of not much to make barrel loads of money or those who realize the system is currupt and decide they just don’t give a damn about the whole structure?

Granted, simply grabbing what you can without paying (I’m always hesitant to call an immaterial copy that didn’t cost anything “stealing”) might not be the best way to go about protesting but it’s a twisted act in a infinitely more twisted industry. All the energy anyone spends on battling downloading would be much better placed in battling Disney getting copyright extended to 75 years (who does that help but mega entertainment corporations?) or the inequalities of… pretty much every field than asking people not to grab what advantage they can from a corrupt system.

“The Man” isn’t a nice guy and copying isn’t all that good either but who’s hurting the industry more?

(Comments are closed, add your thoughts to AJ’s post if you want to chime in.)

I’ve gone through all 1800 and some items in my feedreader and encountered the Music Baton Meme something like 25-30 times but surprisingly, only once in Montréal with Boris pleading the 5th on it so even though I’m not a big music guy I’ll push it locally, just ‘cause I’m always good for a meme.

Total volume of music files on my computer:

4.59Gb, 977 songs

The last CD I bought was:

Haven’t bought a CD in a loooong while but the last album I bought on iTunes was Kasabian by Kasabian.

Song playing right now:

There was none playing right now but if I push play on iTunes (which is on shuffle), Habitacion De Alicia by Alberto Iglesias from the Hable Con Ella soundtrack comes up.

Five songs I listen to a lot, or that means a lot to me:

Three that I play a lot.

1. Club Foot, Kasabian

































































2. Bows + Arrows, The Walkmen

1. This Is The Last Time, Keane

   Two that mean a lot (or some)

2. Rooftop, Stereophonics. One of my favorite bands and reminds me of my trip to australia, heard them there first, on the deck of a sailboat.

1. Save Me, The Tea Party. Good period, I listened to that album all the time.

   Five people to whom I’m passing the baton:

   mc (Je doit dire que je suis assez “astonishé” qu’elle ne l’ai pas déjà fait)
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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