I have been thinking of getting an XBOX to run LINUX for a home PABX. Looking at the amount of memory on the device I do not think that this will really be an option. Price and power consumption are good, but with only 64 MBytes Ram things could be better…

In News.Com.Au today comes a story noting that Beyond International is starting on a global push with international share market listings. That is not what interests me – What does interest is the fact they they make the hit show ‘Mythbusters’, which is shown on Discovery and SBS; and also on QANTAS which gives one more reason to fly that airline. In fact I have seen more episodes of Mythbusters on Qantas than normal TV.

Also this morning comes a story on how CD Prices are falling thanks in part to competition from Apple and iTunes. Some of this is offsetting the inflationary impact on pricing when CD’s came in and they were about 40% more expensive than LP’s. But I suspect that inflation has made CD’s now cheaper than LP’s would have been if they were still around. With downloads why would you pay the same to download an album when you can buy a copy on CD with better sound quality for about the same price…