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Metal Masters Clinic and Anthrax Live Stream.

UPDATE:

Anthrax Setlist

  • Fight ‘Em ‘Til You Can’t
  • Got The Time
  • Caught In A Mosh
  • Antisocial
  • Kerry King walked on stage having a toast with the Anthrax.
  • The Devil You Know
  • Indians (Phil Anselmo joined in by the end of the song.)
  • Madhouse
  • Metal Thrashing Mad
  • Only
  • I’m The Law
  • Earth On Hell

The “calm” before The Big 4 in Yankee Stadium.

Metal Masters Clinic and Anthrax Live Stream is now available.

I think I see my friend Willie Gee on the side of the stage there.

There are:

  • Charlie Benante
  • Frank Bello
  • Dave Ellefson
  • Mike Portnoy
  • Kerry King
  • Scott Ian
  • Phil Anselmo

I also watched the stream on an iPad.

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Marketing versus Reality.

Advertisement for a Tech product:

“It is so easy to use, even a 5 year old can use it.”

What an average user would say:

“They said it is so easy to use, but how? I’m not good with tech stuff.”

Marketing does not necessarily represent reality.

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Amazon.com signs deal with California over Sales Tax Collection.

Dare I say that I saw it coming?

From San Jose Mercury News:

In a deal indicating all sides appear ready to call a truce, Amazon.com is offering to back down from its referendum drive to repeal an online sales tax in exchange for a one-year moratorium on collecting the tax, sources close to the talks with Amazon said Wednesday night.

Does that mean Amazon would bring back its Associates Program to California residents?

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The search for Micro USB cable.

I’m out of town on an assignment for the holiday weekend, what an irony. Anyway, I thought I had packed a Micro USB cable with me which I would use a lot. The external hard drive and the phone use the Micro USB cable to connect to the computer. I apparently didn’t bring it.

So I decided to buy one at the store and was shocked to find out how much they are selling the Micro USB cable for. The cheapest I could find at Best Buy or Radio Shack was $20. I could buy one through MonoPrice.com for less than $1 each.

Since I really need one I ended up buying one. What a pain.

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About that next iPhone.

Apparently there have been tons of people querying the term “iphone prototype” for the past 24 hours. Did Apple lose an iPhone prototype? The media has been reporting it while thousands of bloggers are reposting them. It is bad for Apple to have their highly guarded secret to be out there in the wild.

It surely reminds the Tech World about the lost iPhone 4 prototype story from 2010. So, who’s going to buy this missing iPhone prototype, disassemble it and reveal it to the world? Probably the news organizations are treading the water more carefully this time. They do not want to incur Apple’s wrath over the missing iPhone prototype.

So what’s the point of this post, you asked?

Sometimes in December 2010, an Apple employee who is definitely not Phil Schiller told me not to expect iPhone 5 to come out as everyone expected. In March 2011, I was informed that there would be no iPhone 5 at WWDC 2011. iPhone 5 (or the next iPhone) would arrive before Holiday 2011. When I was told “the next iPhone” I assumed it would be iPhone 5. I wondered why this source always said “the next iPhone” instead of “iPhone 5”?

I then jokingly asked this Apple employee who can’t be Tim Cook, successor to Steve Jobs as Apple CEO:

“I know you have the next iPhone prototype. Can I have one? You don’t have to worry because no one would believe that I have one anyway.”

For some reasons, this Apple employee laughed and changed the subject of our conversation.

What do we know about the next iPhone? All I can tell you that several Apple management team members are heading off to China this week.

 

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Jumping to conclusions.

There’s nothing more dramatic today then the “Lost iPhone Prototype Part 2” news today. Not that I care about it, but I keep seeing it in the news feed. Be it from the news site or from repost by 13,677,214 bloggers. OK, I was exaggerating the number. The rumors broke a few days earlier. As usual the copy-and-paste-machines are busy reposting it over and over.

Blah blah blah, Apple lost another iPhone prototype, blah blah blah.

The second wave came sometimes yesterday that SFPD had no record about the supposed search for the lost iPhone prototype. Some news site speculated that Apple employee might have been posing as Police Officer. Sensationalistic and poorly researched news piece were published. As usual the copy-and-paste-machines were busy reposting the story.

The third wave came as some news site reported that SFPD was involved in the search for the missing iPhone prototype. I wonder what the copy-and-paste-machines are doing after reading this.

News organization should have been more responsible in reporting the news. The reports on the lost iPhone Prototype are comparable to tabloid level. There seems to be the need to be the first to report the story. There seems to be the need to make sensationalistic headlines. After all, the number of page hit is way too important for them.

There’s no need to jump into conclusions; not with the iPhone story nor any stories.