rhapsody of chem lips are checken..

Well, thank Alf it's almost the weekend - this week, I finally got rid of my cold/flu thing that _everyone_ has, but managed to give it to my lovely spouse. Needless to say, she was delighted, but we're both on the road to recovery now.

Although you may think me crazy, I now have a legal music service to wholeheartedly recommend to you. If you do a lot of work at a PC with a broadband connection, and you want, say, a 400,000 song jukebox readily available to you at all times, you should think about subscribing to Listen Rhapsody. Although the company is, well, tarred with the RealNetworks brush, the fact is, for 10 bucks a month or less, and an amazing choice of stream-on-demand albums (although a bit light on independent/electronic material, but making up for it with amazing jazz and funk archives), it's a pretty darn good deal, as long as you don't start paying extra to burn the releases onto disc. I already have enough CDs and Emusic MP3s to last me a lifetime, so I don't have an issue with the on-demand thing, thus - ker-ching!

One of the things TiVo is best for is forwarding through tedious award shows, and the MTV Europe Music Awards were no exception. It's very much worth checking out, however, for the amazing Chemical Brothers / Flaming Lips live performance of 'The Golden Path', in an outside stadium underneath Edinburgh Castle - man alive, what a beautiful song, in an amazing setting.

Finally, a Babelfish-translated review of Vim's latest mp3 release on our net.label Monotonik has provided much hilarity, and a new word du jour, as ably illustrated by Beak. Just remember, if anything is pukka, outstanding, or delightful, it's... 'absolutely checken'!