http://www.chrisbellini.com test Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:24:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here’s some albums I’ve been listening to lately: Broken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning - Something For All Of Us... It sounds like Broken Social Scene. I think that's all that needs to be said. Spiritualized - Songs in A & E Trade in the blue microdot for Valium. This a laid-back ... http://www.chrisbellini.com/2008/08/15/what-i%e2%80%99m-listening-to-august-2008/ How many times have we seen this? Company A becomes awesome. Some of Company A's employees hate the management or think they can do things better so they leave Company A to launch Company B. Company B winds up being pretty good, but you still like Company ... http://www.chrisbellini.com/2008/07/28/be-cuil-man-just-be-cuil/ Here's some albums I've been listening to lately: The Hold Steady - Stay Positive I've never been disappointed by the Hold Steady's previous albums and the trend continues. Stay Positive is chock full of the sordid tales from Craig Finn that we've come to know and love. No Age - Nouns If Jack ... http://www.chrisbellini.com/2008/07/22/what-im-listening-to-july-2008/ I hate to harp about the telcos in this country in back-to-back posts, but this sucks. It turns out that Bell and Telus customers will be charged for all incoming text messages beginning next month. For a country that's supposed to be so technologically progressive, this idea is completely ass-backwards. The ... http://www.chrisbellini.com/2008/07/09/txt-msg-csh-grb/ "i" jokes aside, Rogers introduced some brutal pricing plans for the Apple iPhone. Canada is a fairly laid-back country when it comes to almost everything, but if there's anything that can be determined by the existence of RuinediPhone.com, it's this: don't fuck with our mobile data plans! MacLeans' latest issue contains ... http://www.chrisbellini.com/2008/07/01/iphones-from-rogers-will-make-you-go-ibroke/ The topics I've been posting about lately have been somewhat varied; from Internet culture to hockey to politics to random thoughts. Remember when I went on and on about programming? Me too, so here goes. This is for any ASP.NET coders out there Google-ing "There was an error processing ... http://www.chrisbellini.com/2008/06/24/you-need-to-communicate-more/