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I no longer update this blog.

Please head over to Dawn Studios Blog and also update your bookmarks, if you had me there in the first place, that is. ;-)

So, yeah. I thought it was a prank at first, but it’s not! Microsoft will actually pay $1 to Universal for every Zune they sell. But unlike some who think that they’re doing it just to screw with Apple, I think what Mr. Gruber wrote here is the actual reason.
Microsoft is used to being the company which twists others arms, and is known to have made more than one cunning moves to gain market share for its products. This trend is so deep set, that when it’s actually Microsoft’s arm that’s being twisted, we don’t see it. Here, Universal is acting the bully. They see that Microsoft is in no position to bargain with them, and they impose a $1 per Zune as a payment to “offset the revenue lost due to music piracy”.

WHAT?? John Paczkowski raises a great question in his article here.

This is nothing more than sheer asshattery from the Universal, and other music label execs.

As Warner Music chief Edgar Bronfman Jr. said :

We are selling our songs through iPod, but we don’t have a share of iPod’s revenue. We want to share in those revenue streams. We have to get out of the mindset that our content has promotional value only. We have to keep thinking how we are going to monetize our product for our shareholders.

The music execs are really out for getting a chunk off of music players’ sales, and this deal of Universal and Microsoft just goes to show that these labels are out to get as much revenue off as idiotic reasons as possible!

Posting has been low around these parts of the wild. And I apologize.
I expect to be slow for a few more days, at least until I know where I am headed, and until the football World Cup nears completion.

I say where I’m headed, because it is finally time for me to search for colleges, an utterly hopeless job for a sob story like me.. So, I expect this to keep up for a few days.

And as for the World Cup, well, if you don’t get it, you won’t get it..

Oh, and before I go, a few updates.

I am hoping to release my leafy design as a WP theme soon, as well as converting GreenLine to WordPress.

Secondly, I’m very happy to say that this design has been featured in a few CSS galleries.. the links to which is on the about page.

Oh, and for those who didn’t know yet, Steven is a tab that is clickable, and there is a style-switcher in there. Enjoy..

Oh, and in a completely unrelated event, Joe Kral, of Test Pilot Collective, underwent a surgery to stop massive internal bleeding around his left kidney. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have health insurance, and needs your help. Please do.