One of my friends is involved in LyricFind.com and he alerted me to the new iPhone App for legally looking-up song lyrics in Canada. It’s serves me well and I recommend it to anyone with an iPhone/iPod touch….. but I apparently don’t have to – it’s in the top ten free iPhone/iPod Apps in Canada!
Lindsay and I put together a slide show for our wedding reception and set it to music. I thought the Tragically Hip’s In View would be a good choice as it’s catchy and suited the slideshow.
I had bought the Hippopotamus album from iTunes, but because of the DRM on the file I was not able to use it in the slideshow software and actually had to download the MP3 version from a P2P service to make use of it.
After the wedding I posted the slideshow on YouTube and our clurko.com web site.
Flash forward to today and YouTube alerted me via E-Mail that Universal Music Group contact had asserted their copyright over the song, and may restrict access to the video in certain countries or ” In some cases ads may appear next to your video”.
The video is still up and there appears to be ads beside it. Here’s hoping UMG’s more liberal approach to their artist music works well for them.
Today GM Announced it’s restructuring plan which includes ending the Pontiac badge (No tears in this Pontiac heaven, Report on Business.com). Many of the news reports referenced Pontiac being a sporty line….. if only some had told GM it was just supposed to be a sporty line and not another full-line brand (or told them that Saturn didn’t need to be a full-line brand).
A report on F1-Live and GrandPrix.com suggest that the return of the Canadian GP to Canada is imminent as talks are ongoing and all parties (teams, drives, manufatures, Quebec politicians and the FIA) want Formula 1 back in North America.
The GranPrix.com article goes on to cite The Niagara Falls Review and Dean McNulty’s series on the proposed new race track in Niagara region as a possible location for an F1 race. At the very least it could host top-level North American racing, and one can hope that with the major backers being Kuwaiti national Azhar Mohammad and NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jeff Gordon (known as a NASCAR driver that loves to turn right as much as he turns left) the track should be interesting.
Here’s hoping!
According to the Toronto Star and F1-Live.com Bernie Ecclestone is in talks with race organizers in Montreal to put Montreal back on the racing calendar for 2009. This is because the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the race added when Montreal was removed, might not be ready in time.
I’d love to have the Canadian GP back in the Formula 1 Calendar, but I share the concern that it should be a long-term agreement. Bernie Ecclestone needs to learn the consequences of rash and follow-the-dollars decisions.
I’d be happy to see the Canadian GP back on the Calendar for the next five years and I’d still be pleased if the agreement was to have an alternating position in the calendar with the US GP (Possibly at Watkins Glen?).
On a related note: Congratulations team Brawn! I’d also like to thank Honda for footing the bill for creating such a great team but being courteous enough to get out of the way once all the success started happening.
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