So the schedule for the FoCoMX (Fort Collins Music Experiment for the uninitiated) came out a couple of days ago and I'm psyched.  I've attended this little music festival the past couple years and it is awesome.  This year it is April 13th and 14th and Fort Collins is already getting ramped up.  You can buy a wrist band for $15 or so and it will get you into pretty much all the venues, bars, and brewerys around town to hear the great live music that Northern Colorado has to offer. There is way too many bands to list here so check out the link and start planning.  FoCoMX.org

Snow Ball Music Festival

I love living here in Colorado.  The weather is schzophrenic, the sports are awesome and the music rocks.  Work will probobably interfere with my involvement with this great festival but I hope you all can make it up to the mountains for some great music and fresh air. SnowBall Music Festival

Your privacy

So everything on the internet is getting pretty crazy these days.  MegaUpload just got screwed, luckily SOPA/PIPA didn't get passed (even though they are trying to sneak through similar bills), and Google just changed their privacy policies so they can track you everywhere you go on the internet.  Luckily President Obama is putting forth a bill to help the public retain some of their privacy.  Read what I just read at Google News and hopefully you can feel a little better about your internet use.

If there is a major theme in high-tech in this early part of 2012, it's on consumer data privacy, with a number of both good and bad developments. Google, Apple, Path and several other Silicon Valley companies have dominated headlines. We've seen Google's controversial privacy policy change proposal in January. We watched the drama around Apple's easy enabling of address book sharing for third-party apps like Path, Facebook and others unfold. Last week, we learned of Google's trickery of Apple Safari to enable online ad cookies to run in the Web browser for Macs, iPhones and iPads. But it hasn't been all bad news. On Feb. 22, President Barack Obama unveiled a consumer privacy bill of rights. On the same day, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and others embraced the Do Not Track privacy feature proposed by the Federal Trade Commission. Those are positive steps in the evolution of online privacy. eWEEK details some of the happenings in this slide show.

1st Blog

What's up everybody?
  
This is my first blog and I promise it will be awesome.  Here's a link to an awesome concert that I just got a ticket to. Check it out.  This is from the Cervantes website.



Black Star arose from the underground movement of the late 1990s. They released one album “Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star” in 1998. The album rose to critical acclaim and is praised as one of the greatest hip-hop albums of our time. Black Star has continued to help shape underground alternative hip-hop and bring it further into the mainstream eye. Both have gone on to greater commercial and critical success in separate solo careers.
All though they have only released one album, throughout the years Black Star has stayed active. Talib Kweli & Yasiin Bey (Formally Mos Def) have appeared on each others albums and various other tracks together.
In 2011 they have continued to tour the globe and have recently released a new single entitled “Fix Up.” The Madlib produced single is available on iTunes here: http://bit.ly/t6Bjet.
There are also plans for an Aretha Franklin inspired Mix CD entitled “Black Star Aretha.” The first release from the Mix CD, “You Already Knew” produced by Oh No, is available as a free download at http://www.blackstarhub.com/.