i am the only one who   knows where cronimiyer is in metroid zero mission    cronimiyer is in a save room   then he is in krieds room       

I am not doing much with this site yet, so I am letting my son take over for awhile.

I love Nine Inch Nails. It is one of the few bands that I have consistantly enjoyed since my younger days and Trent Reznor has been busy lately. First he released the instrumental "Ghosts" album a couple months ago. 36 tracks in a variety of packages, from 9 free tracks to a $300 dollar limited set. I bought mine for 5 dollars off of Amazon. Now he has released another new album called "The Slip" and it is completely free. Not only in price, but format as well. I have always been against DRM (Digital Rights Management) that is included in most music nowadays. The Slip is DRM-free and it is available in loss-less formats as well for the audiophiles out there. I hope this is a sucessful venture from them. All music needs to move to an open system and it seems to be gaining momemtum in recent months. Radioheads in Rainbows was another huge release that was put out under the name your price model and I believe that was considered a sucess.<br/><br/>Get the Slip.

After a decade+ out of comic books, I returned to reading them on a regular basis again 2 years ago. At first I hit the titles I was familiar with, but within the last year I have branched out into the independents as well. It is amazing what is offered now on a weekly basis. Literally hundreds of titles come every wednesday. As a coding exercise outside of my normal realm and to keep up to speed on what was coming out I built the comic release list that is listed in the bar under the site title. to build it I put together series of web pages that would retrieve the list automatically from diamond publishing, reformat and order the entries and list the contents on a user friendly page. it worked, but it required some amount of manual work to maintain.

Once I had a working list I was looking to release it to a wider audience. I started using iGoogle six month ago and I like the gadgets so I began to build a new release schedule. However I was looking to expand the listing to cover all comic books, toys and magazine. At this point I was also using Midtown comics for my weekly comic fix. I didn't receive the titles the day they came out, but the convience and prices were better than my local shop could provide. The delivery service is also amazing well done. In 2+ years of weekly deliveries, Midtown has only made 2 mistakes, but corrected without any fuss. After finding a contact at Midtown I was allowed to leverage their list to use as a basis for a new release schedule gadget and the results are in the sidebar. I want to go into my details on the iGoogle gadget building process as well as the experiences I have had with midtown comics.