12/31/03 - Happy New Year! New Year's EVE has always been my
favorite holiday. I took a vacation day for it this year. Tonight
we'll be celebrating the New Year at Providence's Bright Night. In
years past we went to first night but due to lack of attendees and
funding it was cancelled for this year. Bright Night was put
together by local artists including Bill Harley, Len Cabral, the
acme clown company and BIG NAZO who were disappointed that First
Night was cancelled.

I have published Chapter 14 of Tanga titled Raven Corp.

This week's EVE Vault discussion is about years!

I have updated my iTunes Playlist again. There was some music added,
I think it was mostly The Offspring and Transistor by 311.
Transistor isn't that good, but with about 19 songs and the CD only
costing $10 through iTunes I couldn't resist.

After the whole rant I gave last week about copying DVDs I saw a
commercial yesterday saying basically the same thing. It turns out a
group has been formed called RespectCopyrights.org. Unlike the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA),
RespectCopyrights.org isn't suing little girls to get their point
across they are using informational campaigns and working with
educators. RespectCopyrights.org was created by members of the
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). While
RespectCopyrights.org is mostly about movies it also supports
copyrights of music, software, books, television, and video games.