When trying to purchase, legally, Brahms Symphony 4, I found that the second, third, and fourth movements are available for individual purchase, but the first movement can only be purchased if the entire album, along with tracks I don't want or need but still need to pay for, is bought. This was the same no matter who the orchestra was -- it applied to every single instance of the first movement.

iTunes, you can kiss my ass.

So, you probably have noticed, maybe even cared, that I'm not posting much lately after keeping a pretty much daily list of favorite blog entries and news. The reason is that I've discovered Google Reader, an RSS aggregator. Even better, you can flag entries in that aggregator and make them public, essentially creating a blog of your own made up of other news entries, blog entries, Flickr photos, etc. Even better, this can also be RSS, as I've added a friend's favorites as an RSS feed and sometimes flag those entries as well.

So, here's the new link to my favorite blog entries and news.

If you want to RSS it, you can use this link.

I hope you enjoy reading them, or if they're about bad news, I hope you hate them. Even better, please set one up and start flagging entries of your own, then post the link in the comments here.