This past weekend, I purchased Moby’s new 2-CD set entitled Hotel, which was released on March 22nd. It’s quite a bit different than his last few CD’s, but is quite a beautiful collection of mellow and soothing songs. This CD is a must-have for any Moby enthusiast.

The first CD is has powerful vocals by female singer Laura Dawn (creative director for MoveOn.org, a Democratic Party website), lead singing by Moby, and background vocals by Shana Steele; while all of the instruments are performed throughout are done by Moby himself. On the second CD, named Ambient after the style of electronica used throughout all of the tracks, Moby returned to his true mix-master and DJ origins by spinning together a web of beats and harmonies that truly deserve the name Ambient. The album reminds me a lot of Moby’s older work mixed with a touch of Tricky’s mysterious vocal stylings to create amazing aural works of art.

An interesting interview with Moby about his new album can be found on HERE on MixOnline.com’s Website

Macs are coming back strong with software hackers; and I’m not talking about hackers in the sense of 1995 movie HACKERS. Software hackers are people who are REALLY good at coding and can hack together just about anything they put their mind on doing with any language they want. See Paul Graham’s (author of a number of computer books) description of what it is to be a hacker here. Many articles have been posted by both pro-Apple web sites and pro-Geek websites alike, but Paul Graham’s essay on the topic is one of the best I’ve read.

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Are you like me and use public computers on a regular basis, but try to be very careful about the kind of data you want to leave on those computers? Instead of worrying about leaving information on a computer, I found a way to keep the information in emails and from the internet on a portable flash drive along with the email and web applications themselves.

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In celebration of its 10th birthday in 2005, Yahoo! has put together a page based on the 10×10 technology that I talked about a few posts ago. The page has 100 events from the last 10 years including famous commercials that Yahoo! created to advertise it’s services and silly websites from the past (HotOrNot.com and Pets.com are two such sites). It’s a cool page to view for a blast-from-the-past kind of feeling for those of you that were on the ‘net back in 1995 (I know I was… 32kbps modems rocked back then!).

http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/

My parents go on walk/runs a few times a week and, on one of the last times they went, they found a little kitten crying just off the road in the woods. The kitten, who they later named Nala after the female lion in the Lion King, started following them as they walked down the street. Being the good neighbors they are, they went door to door looking for the kitten’s owner, but couldn’t find anyone who wanted the cat. The original plan was to put the kitten up for adoption, but most of the family (including myself when I went home to see the kitten last weekend) fell in love with the little cutie, so, for now at least, we are keeping her. Here are a few pictures :

Isn’t she cute? You can find more pictures of her in my Gallery in the Family section under Pets.