By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is The Dexman -- Dexter Gordon's early '60s Blue Note jazz recordings, albums such as Dexter Calling, Our Man In Paris and...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the second cup of coffee this morning, and the music is Frank Sinatra-Dean Martin duets, current selection "Well Did You Evah?:" Enterprise communications vendor Thunderhead has announced the NOW Context Engine,...
By David Sims The news as of the third cup of coffee this morning, and the music is frankly a bad song with an unprintable name, but hey, it's the one on the iPod rotation as I was typing this, so...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the second cup of coffee this morning, and the music is Cross Canadian Ragweed's Live at Billy Bob's Texas. It's pretty gutsy to appropriate the CCR acronym, but this is...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is a surprisingly durable old album, The Marshall Tucker Band. Far more than simply a Southern boogie rock workout, there's a lot of...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is what one reviewer called David Bowie's first draft of a suicide note album Station To Station. Stylish, cool nihilism has never...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the second cup of coffee this morning, and the music is Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Abattoir Blues for a cheery pick-me-up this morning: Salesforce.com has announced that The Haagen-Dazs...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the second cup of coffee this morning, and the music is Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Abattoir Blues for a cheery pick-me-up this morning: Salesforce.com has announced that The Haagen-Dazs...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the first cup of coffee this morning, and the music is Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver's There's A Light Guiding Me, one of the finest vocal bluegrass gospel harmony albums currently...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the second cup of coffee this morning, and the music is X's More Fun In The New World. You kind of knew it was the end for this band when...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is The Byrds' Younger Than Yesterday, the sounds of a band transitioning out of fun, enjoyable music they like to play and...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is a general Arlo Guthrie iPod mix. It's always tricky using Arlo for work music, I get so caught up in the...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the second cup of coffee this morning, and the music is Uncle Tupelo's No Depression. Jay Farrar's later band Son Volt had one great album, Trace, but outside of that,...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the first coffee this morning, and we might run out of the music halfway through, the battery on the iPod is awfully low due to my wife's husband's screw-up in...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the second cup of coffee this morning, and the music is Van Morrison's live album It's Too Late To Stop Now being piped out to all office buildings, the equestrian...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, one of the very, very few jazz albums to be every bit as good as the...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is The Zero Playlist. You ever do this? Realize that even though you hit "Shuffle Songs" on the iPod there are some...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is dumb rock 'n' roll fun well done -- John Mellencamp's uh-huh. Mellencamp was so good when he didn't take himself seriously...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the second cup of coffee this morning, and the music is Jim Wallace and Sons doing that great traditional Scots standard "Wild Mountain Thyme:" Sword ciboodle, a vendor of customer-oriented business...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is Bix Beiderbecke's "Ostrich Walk:" Intridea has announced that VisualCV has integrated Intridea's MediaPlug media appliance server with its software for building, sharing...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is Belle & Sebastian's The Life Pursuit (think The Smiths meet The Kinks in a studio with a policy against lead guitars,...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is the literate, enjoyable pop songwriting of Between The Wars by Al Stewart: W-Systems Corp has announced the release of version 1.8 of...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the second cup of coffee this morning, and the music is a guilty pleasure: Van Halen II. Quite guilty and quite pleasurable: Knoa, a vendor of performance management software, has announced...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is Miles Davis's Kind Of Blue: Davis Medical Electronics, a vendor of new and refurbished medical equipment, has standardized on AccountMate products for...
By David SimsDavid at firstcoffee d*t biz The news as of that all-important third cup of coffee this morning, and the music is... well, let's have Apple pick the music for us. Okay, 5,476 songs on the iPod, let's just hit...