A wonderful, boomerific remembrance of why we appreciate, if not worship, John:

What can I say, if this makes me a romantic, naive sucker, a dreamer if you will, then fuck it, I’m guilty.

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On our way to waiting for the first open music artist to actually quit their day job folks like Norine Braun are out there with overflowing tip jars paying for their music habits. I’m not a music mogul or entrepreneur visionary type but it seems like $4,280 sure goes a long way in a DIY world. (And if that’s Canadian Dollars it goes even farther!)

I am so, so psyched for Norine - and really, for all of us.

Peter Kim over at Create Digital Music has a long, if mostly anecdotal, report on the current status of Vista’s usability for DAWs.

In short, if you held off on upgrading to Vista, it’s paid off.

If you’re happy on XP, there’s really no pressure to leave.

That’s about where I’d put it. I’m still cross-grading over to Mac whenever my current XP setup falls over (it’s doing fine tho’)

There’s a set of links at the end of the article for those that have already made the Vista plunge. I can’t speak for their reliability and if you’re on Vista you’ve probably already chased down a lot of that info but it seems like a handy bookmark.