http://kennethholland.com '...because a good friend will stab you in the front.' Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:53:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en by Glenn Holland I built this music workstation PC in February. Intel Quad core, three HDs, 4G RAM. A few weeks ago, it goes on the fritz. After a bunch of troubleshooting, I send the motherboard in. Two weeks later (yesterday) it comes back. Same problem. ... http://kennethholland.com/general/ted-kaczynski-misunderstood-genius/ by Glenn Holland NASCAR is finally getting it right - the Indy tire debacle is merely a cover. They are experimenting with a format change that will ultimately take all their races down to a 10-lap shootout. Race day schedule would look like this: 6am - Beer concessions open 7am - ... http://kennethholland.com/auto-racing/the-real-reason-for-the-indy-tire-disaster/ The following letter was written by Charles Grennel and his comrades, veterans of the Global War on Terror. Grennel is an Army Reservist who spent two years in Iraq and was a principal in putting together the first Iraq elections in January 2005. It was written to Jill Edwards, ... http://kennethholland.com/general/are-you-a-sheep-or-a-sheepdog/ Have you been on Twitter yet? I had heard alot about it for the past few months and finally I decided to give it a look. What is it? Here is a good definition on about.com: Twitter is a mini-blogging platform that you can use to send messages of 140 characters or ... http://kennethholland.com/web-business/have-you-twittered-yet/ There's rumblings that the big grunting dying dinosaur called The Music Industry is going to make a push to have a mandatory music tax to, get this...create 'guaranteed revenues'! Here's a quote from Techcrunch.com: [Trent] Reznor [Nine Inch Nails] called for it today, saying “I think if there was an ISP tax ... http://kennethholland.com/artsy-fartsy/the-music-industry-gets-what-they-deserve/ So Madonna drinks blessed Kaballah water to the tune of 10 grand a month. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22576504/ I don't care if you're rich and want to spend $10,000 a month on blessed water (even if you are a little loony) but this piece of work is known for berating America's wealthy for their 'wasteful ... http://kennethholland.com/artsy-fartsy/madonnas-10000-water-bill/ Ok, disregard the last post...I'm really back now....honest! http://kennethholland.com/general/one-more-time/ Ok ok!  I haven't posted in over a month!  My bad!  I promise it'll never happen again. So, in other words, I'm back.  :) http://kennethholland.com/general/sorry-bout-the-vacation/ Big tech news today. Microsoft wants to acquire Yahoo![!] Apparently, they're getting sick of Google handing them their ass in the company acquisition front. With all the big buys Google has been making (YouTube, DoubleClick being the most notable) Microsoft would seem to be getting a bit desperate to ... http://kennethholland.com/web-business/microsoft-going-all-in/ Ok, for those of you who don't know, music used to be my 'profession'. Played drums, actually. Love the instrument and love music but hate the music biz. It sucks to high heaven. Can't be any more clear than that. I was just reading a post on ... http://kennethholland.com/artsy-fartsy/singers-are-the-greatest/