LATEST ADDITIONS

If you think I burned out cartridge-wise at the end of my and JE's It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World cartridge survey at the beginning of the year (Vol.18 Nos.1 & 2), you're wrong. If you think I <I>ought</I> to burn out and give it a rest, you'll be disappointed. If you think analog doesn't matter anymore, you have my semi-sincere condolences. But if you think, as I do, that analog is enjoying a resurgence of epic proportions (twilight or no), and that LP playback has reached a new zenith of musical wonder, then hang on&mdash;here I go again!

I’ve been cramming to make a deadline all week, much of it spent out of town reporting, but here’s a quick preview of bloggings to come:

At CES 2007, Bill Gates announced that Microsoft was developing a <A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver">…; Home Server</A>, saying, "As computers and digital media become more and more central to family life, we need better ways to organize, share, and protect digital content and information at home. Windows Home Server makes it easy for families to save, protect and access digital memories and experiences, so they can focus on using technology to organize their day-to-day lives, explore their interests, and share their memories with the people they care about."

As it has for the last 11 years, <A HREF="http://www.thecableco.com/">The Cable Company</A>, along with many of its vendors, is dedicating August to help some of "the poorest people in the most ravaged regions of the world."

You know how sometimes you can't tell how wonderful an audio component is until after you've <i>removed it</i> from your system?

<I>Stereophile</I> started publishing its "<A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/recordingofthemonth/">Recording of the Month</A>" feature in its December 1992 issue, with the late Igor Kipnis's <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/recordingofthemonth/1292rotm/">rave review</A> of Keith Jarrett performing Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues.

The "Summer of Love" didn't swing quite as hard&mdash;or at least not as ubiquitously&mdash;as rumor would have it.

Bagheera's got 'em.

Huckleberry reckons he might try that thinking stuff some day. Some other day.

Scientists have discovered that listening to music engages the areas of the brain involved with paying attention. Who'd a thunk?