I just had an interesting email from a mailing list I belong to. It is from a group called the DLF, or the Digital Labourers Federation – which is just a collection of people interested in the digital side of movies and the like. They were advertising a position that looked really cool – which was for a positioning technology specialist. If the job was not in the USA I might actually apply for it since it looks so cool. The job is with Rhythm and Hues in LA, which is actually owned by a friend of a friend. But really I do not want to be working in the USA… Besides which working for myself is rather cool.

The Register is reporting that the founder of MP3.COM is releasing a new service that integrates with iTunes to upload your digital music to a secure service on the Internet so that you can listen to your music anywhere. They are calling this Oboe, and believe that it is legal… Ir at least more legal than the previous MP3.COM offerings which allowed you to listen to music online that you had proved that you already owned.

A few days back I had a discussion with a colleague over the cost of bricklaying… My colleague did not believe that bricklayers were charging over $1 per brick. I found an onlne reference to this from 2002 that noted that the price per brick was at that time up to $1.50 per brick. This is a lot of money!