i had installed Vista on my DELL laptop to test out some custom software for work. Dell’s have a recovery utility that restore your PC to clean factory default settings with no need for a CD installation (a huge plus for me).

Vista beautifully fucked up the master boot record making the recovery impossible. luckily i found the great DSRfix utility online, but this was only the beginning. i was forced to return to the floppy disk days as the countless (like 5 or so) bootup CDs to DOS failed to work. sure you can boot off of countless other hardware these days, but bootdisk exe creators demand an A drive. but then again, i could’ve used an emulator.

gladly, this didnt take forever. thanks to DSRfix, i can revert back — in no time.

I started using audioscrobbler in the fall of 2004 when I was working all sorts of crazy hours. Since then, they’ve expanded the service and taken the model many many steps further - and at a mind boggling pace. As usual, metalheads adopted the web service at amazing rates and last.fm did a great job about not discriminating taste as it catered to music lovers across all genres. Today I signed up for last.fm support for a second time and I was pleasantly surprised to be playing my very own Servantofbones Radio Station, which accurately included kickass (fave) artists like Sentenced, Katatonia, Daylight Dies, Paradise Lost… you name it.

This is what a web music service should be: scalable [in all senses of the word], constantly introducing new features that the end user gets excited about, helping you get exposed to all things musical, and searching/sorting through a growing repository of information.

I encourage every audiophile / mp3 player owner to sign up and start building their profile to take advantage of this killer service [it keeps getting better and better]. It certainly puts all others to shame.

Jesse over at www.daylightdies.com has posted a killer video our latest creation. We had a blast — pre and post beer production.