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Steve Jobs’s keynote today at WWDC is the sound of the other shoe dropping. All that griping about whether the iPhone would be opened to third party apps just went out the window. There is a third-party platform in the iPhone, and it’s called Safari. Which, incidentally, will now be available for Windows. As a [...]

Nice crop of reviews and other music related pieces today: Blogcritics has an appreciation of John McLaughlin that suggests that the British guitarist should be accorded a prime mover place in the formation of jazz fusion. The New Yorker profiles Spoon, placing it within a tradition of doing more with less. Pitchfork has an article [...]

Six years ago today, I sat at a computer in the Seattle suburbs and updated this site, thinking I would manage to update it again only under extreme duress; hence the optimistic title Quarterly Update (I). A funny thing happened shortly thereafter, and I got the blogging bug. And I haven’t been quite the same [...]