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I randomly signed up for the ticket lottery for Glastonbury a few days ago. I’ve never been, and it makes me sad, really. I know I’ll hate the camping but hell, I should go one time in my life, right?

Imagine my excitement, then, when my hero Leonard Cohen has been tapped to play Glasto this year, along with The Verve, British Sea Power and Neil Diamond. Okay, yeah man, bring it.

I suspect I won’t go, I suspect the rumors of a leonard cohen tour will pan out, and I’m seeing BSP ...

The 2008 SXSW lineup has been announced. I was going to go anyway, no doubt – this will be my fourth or fifth year going, and there’s always someone to see. This year’s lineup is basically as good as any other – there’s just so much @ SXSW that it’s never really all about one band or another.

For me, this year brings excitement from British Sea Power, Michael Brook, REM (I suppose, we’ll see), Dolly Parton, Mark Kozelek, Yo La Tango, Annie, F**k Buttons, Asobe Seksu, Film School,…

I forgot that buying stocks means you actually get to vote in their annual meetings, so today I opened a piece of mail that I figures was another bill and turned out to be my proxy vote statement for my Apple stock. Woo!

I voted for the board, and against the recommendations of Apple on 2 of the resolutions, and with them on one. Resolution three was about whether the bylaws of the company should be amended to have a sustainability committee. In principal I’m generally against amending bylaws,…

SO I was playing Scrabulous last night, and judi was looking over my shoulder cuz we were bored, and she uses Camino as her browser so she’s not used to all the Facebook ads we don’t even see so she kept commenting on them as she was looking @ the screen (and we found an awesome site where you gift lingerie that comes in a teddy bear but anyway), and we found this:

Bill Janovitz, Realtor

And it’s totally him!

I wonder how people find his Realty Company, since if they google him all…

Man, I thought Doubleclick and aQuantive was scary. This is downright terrifying: Microsoft offered $44.6 billion for Yahoo! today.

It’s funny. This has been one of the favorite conspiracy theory rumors for years, it’s so weird to wake up and have it actually be reality.

I don’t think it’s a bad move for Microsoft And the deal is so vast, so big, that I don’t even, really, feel qualified to pontificate on the impact it will have. I think Yahoo!’s taken a bit of an unfair beating in the…

God I am almost done. I’ve kept it, but I’ve had a few stumbles. Caffeine, mainly. I always get a little frayed at the end. I’ll do a round up post at the end about the rules - next year I am starting at a different time: either right after New Year’s or right after MacWorld. I’ve been waiting for Keith and his birthday for five years now and he never makes it more than a week. I am also rescinding Keith’s over-strict interpretation of Amnesty Day to only one thing: I stuck to that this year,…

So, I am a Rock Tourist. Many of us are tourists, of course. Many of us like to visit different places in the world. I’ve heard it said many times that tourism is the world’s largest industry.

I also try to be a good global citizen. My prediliction for Tourism, coupled with my life as a business man, puts me in a situation that is, perhaps, familiar to many of us who try to be good global citizens: I am torn about the emissions that my travel brings about. I’ve taken the tests: despite not…

Dude Fake Steve hasn’t posted in like 2 days! I’m wiggin! Where did he go? I need my fix!

I know I am one version behind, but I would like to officially thank Apple for adding an enhancement to Pages.app so that when you are in the bullet format, and then you want to get out, you only have to hit two returns - like Microsoft Word - rather than insisting that you go to the bullet menu and selecting “none” again.

That has probably added an hour a year back to my life.

I’ve been reading Gawker again lately. I’m not sure why, exactly. An interesting story on Denton in New York Magazine I read a while back, and the fact that he took the site back, becoming the editor again.

In tandem with this, of course, I’ve been reading, as we all have, every blowhard story there has been about old media vs. new, and the increasing irrelevance of the traditional journalist (unless they happen to be a blogger, too, of course) and blah blah blah.

For example, TechCrunch…