Wayne D's Blog

Perhaps not daily but frequently is what my blog postings will be during the holidays.

My kids get Hunt's Pudding packs for their lunches and for the last while each for pack has included a card for a free track at Puretracks.com. If you like pudding it's a good deal, Puretracks offers wma format music but also has a fairly extensive listing of mp3's available if you have an iPod which doesn't support wma's. You can use the cards without even providing your credit card information. When I went there to use my free track credits I stumbled across their Christmas sale page. Twenty-nine albums on sale for $6.99, ten of them available as mp3's included KT Tunstall's Drastic Fantastic and Serena Ryder's If Memory Serves you Well. Considering single tracks sell from $0.99 to $1.29, $6.99 is a great price. Of course my single track cards couldn't be used to buy albums so I ended up buying Drastic Fantastic. I did redeem one of my free track cards though. I think that I have been sucked in by successful marketing. I'm still maintaining my emusic.com membership but I will drop by Puretracks.com occasionally to see what's on sale since emusic.com tends to be heavily weighted to independent artists. I just hope more music labels go the mp3 route, I would have bought Mika's Life in Cartoon Motion which is also on sale but it is wma format only.

I've been fooling around with Daz Studio, a Poser clone. The hook with Daz Studio is that the program and basic content is free, Daz hopes that you will come back and buy additional models and props from them. If you want to try out simple 3D modelling with characters then you can give it a try. Unfortunately it only runs on Windows.

Time to go buy some wine for Christmas dinner.