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I already had checked them out on the internet... ...on the internet.... ...on the internet.

With roughly twenty years behind them, Canada’s power trio Triumph will reunite for the first time this year at the Sweden Rock Festival (June 4-7) and the Rocklahoma music festival in Pryor, Oklahoma (July 11th). Making a clean break from the band in 1988, singer/guitarist Rik Emmett left fellow band-mates Mike Levine and Gil Moore amid growing dissatisfaction over writing credits and artistic direction. Under a long standing agreement, Emmett left with only a one ninth interest in the band and cited for many years he had no commercial interest in Triumph. Emmett was open and vocal about his mistrust of his former band-mates. On March 10, 2007 the band was inducted to the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame. All original members were present and for the first time in nearly two decades the period of silence between them was broken. Although asked of a possible reunion at that time, it didn’t seem likely. Gil Moore was busy with his studio Metalworks in Mississauga and hadn’t actually played drums in nearly fifteen years. Rik and Mike were busy with other projects, and it would take time to fully dialyze the years of dissention between the three. Read entire story here.

LOS ANGELES - Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay who achieved commercial success and critical acclaim with the gender-bending comedy "Tootsie" and the period drama "Out of Africa, has died. He was 73. Pollack died of cancer Monday afternoon at his home in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, surrounded by family, said his publicist, Leslee Dart. He had been diagnosed with cancer about nine months ago, Dart said. Pollack, who occasionally appeared on the screen himself, worked with and gained the respect of Hollywood's best actors in a long career that reached prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. Read entire story here.

What a Potsie schmuck.

Happy Birthday, kiwibank!

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Eddy Arnold, country music's "Tennessee Plowboy" whose rendition of "Make the World Go Away" was an international hit in the 1960s, died on Thursday at age 89 in Nashville after a lengthy illness. His death was announced by his biographer, Don Cusi. Rising from a poverty-stricken childhood in Henderson, Tennessee, Arnold connected with the Pee Wee King Band as a singer and went on to a career in which he was named to the Country Music Hall of Fame and received the County Music Association's first entertainer of the year award. Read entire story here.

Nice to see you again here, jip.

Darn. I'm too tired to go back out.

I always enjoyed "Alice's Restaurant."

I wonder if they plan on walking to all their tour dates?

FONTANA, Calif. - Al Wilson, the soul singer and songwriter who had a number of 1970s hits including "Show and Tell," has died. He was 68. Wilson died Monday of kidney failure at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fontana, according to his son, Tony Wilson of Yucaipa. "He was always singing," his son said. "He would call me in the middle of the night with a new song that he had written." Read entire story here.

No. I might someday, but right now I'll just stick with my free 250 GB ATA's.

When it comes to hard drives, size and speed can make a real difference in performance and usability, and Western Digital thinks its new VelociRaptor hard drive is a winner in both areas. The new WD VelociRaptor is an enterprise-capable drive with twice the capacity and a 35 percent performance boost over Western Digital's existing family of Raptor hard drives. According to Tom McDorman, VP and general manager of Western Digital's enterprise business unit, the VelociRaptor drive delivers better performance and reliability than all other SATA hard drives currently on the market. While the VelociRaptor is well suited for low-end servers and workstations on the business side, it also packs a performance punch designed for PC power users with a thirst for speed and storage performance. Fast and Furious The VelociRaptor is a 300GB hard drive that spins at 10,000 rpm, with a three Gb/s interface and a 16MB cache. In terms of reliability, Western Digital says the drive has a mean time between failures (MTBF) rating of 1.4 million hours. That, says Western Digital, is the highest available reliability rating of any SATA drive. Read entire story here.

I'm guilty of liking "Crushcrushcrush." It has a great rhythm and is catchy. Using it for my Myspace ATM. When they first surfaced, "Misery Business" was killing our airwaves here. I think they just played here a week or two ago with Jimmy Eat World. I think I heard the album online and it had some promise. Singer's cute, moreso I think than Flyleaf's singer Lacey. I'd do both though. Edit - (I think I said "I think" too much.)

Sounds like they're dead in the water.

Happy Birthday!!

Ummm....no. Not even if they threw in a free cap and moustache. (she was off beat, btw)

EMM at ZP loves this band also. The song is ok; it has its moments.

From Billboard Magazine: Many have tried, but so far nobody has been able to pry the decade-in-the-works Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy from the hands of lone remaining original member Axl Rose. Now, Dr Pepper thinks it's up to the challenge. The soft drink company says it will give a free can of Dr Pepper to "everyone in America" (excluding ex-Guns members Slash and Buckethead) if "Chinese Democracy" arrives anytime during the calendar year 2008. Rose responded on his band's web site (http://www.gunsnroses.com) that the band was "surprised and very happy to have the support of Dr Pepper." But the offer did not prompt him to rose to the challenge. Read entire story here.

Guess that just leaves DAIC. Time to upload that video, Chris.

Why'd it have to be a boy? Thanks a lot, you little stoner.

I wish. In my current job, I despise our CS. They read off scripts and can barely apply logic to anything. And now we literally have a call center in the Phillipines so you can imagine how the telephone game works there.

Agreed.

Computers, yeah. I'm working on a 1 TB server now. Cars, depends. Did some Humvee work in the army and changed the washer fluid in a Chevy once. Also did auto claims, so I could tell you whether to toss that junker or not.