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Unless you've been living under a rock the last few days you've probably heard on the news about the guy that was arrested for using bad domain names to sell porn to kids.

ZDNet UK has the report as does about every other news site.

I say about damn time! Hopefully this will start a new trend to clean up the net. The abuse of the net is getting terrible. It's like that wild west out there. Some people may think it's good but to me it's a disgrace!

Now don't think I'm some uptight anti pornography nut. Porn is fine and having adult sites on the net isn't a problem. However porn sites are terrible in the use and abuse of the technology. Things like spam, endless popups, using common miss spelling of other domains, etc, etc. If the operators of these sites would just behave and conduct business like any other professional site, no one would care.

Some big news in the music industry as of late and for once it's good news!

First up is the report from CNN that the Universal Music Group, part of Vivendi, is going to be cutting prices of CDs! They'll be bumping the MSRP of most of their high end CDs that were around $18.98 to $12.98.

Well thank you Vivendi! You finally took the first step to get out of the endless loop we've been in. You might just help solve things! No more of the industry saying "we have to charge more because people pirate" and the consumers saying "we pirate because you charge too much".

The best thing we can all do is vote with our wallet so to help show this is a good idea I will be buying two CDs from the artists under a Universal Music label. The price cuts go into effect October 1st so sometime that month I will start buying.

Secondly, Reuters is reporting that several colleges are looking to offer some sort of pay to play music service in dorms. As part of the tuition and fees students would get access to a music library.

It's still early and hard to tell if this will work out but I say it's a good start. As long as the prices are cheap and the libraries are extensive it should prove to be successful. Students want digital music they can download so you might as well give it to them.

So this is why it's been so cold out lately. Hell has frozen over because for once things are going right for consumers!

We'll I'm getting into the grove with school. The 18 credit hours and tight schedule is turning out to be a problem. Having my Tuesdays and Thursdays completely packed with about 10 minutes to get from class to class just plain sucks. Hauling a entire days worth of books all over campus non-stop from 9 to 5 is killer. If I don't end up with back troubles in a month I'll be very surprised.

But enough of my whining. Not much tech wise going on right now. Just the usual stuff that's been in the news for a while and not worth commenting on.

Politically it's been pretty much usual fair. As I live about 2000 miles from California I won't even both talking about the recall there. Only thing new I think is important is the President created a new position at the U.S. Dept of Commerce that will deal with manufacturing industries.

I don't know what the job's suppose to due but being it's a gov't job we know it's all about wasting money and writing lots of useless reports.