CityRag has tracked down the YouTube videos of the 20 greatest guitar solos (according to Guitar World). Indulge your air-guitar impulses here!  Over 7 minutes of the Freebird guitar solo!  What more could you want...

From Christopher Hitchens: A Life of Living Dangerously. I completely agree with his eloquent defense of the right of all of us to go to hell in our own ways, or, as it's otherwise known, enjoy ourselves. I am an adult; I am quite capable of deciding what I wish to eat, drink, and do, for myself and don't need the constant hectoring of our government reminding me that these things may be bad for me. I know this, but consider the pleasure of indulging to be of more importance than the risks they entail. As Hitch says in the article, 'Above all, I could say that whenever I hear someone intone, “Sir, I’m going to need you to…” my instinctive response is, “And as for you, sir, I need you to stay the fuck out of my face.” '

Hat tip: the Drink-soaked Trots.

I've been hoping for something like this for a while: GooSync allows you to synchronise your phone's calendar with your Google Calendar (including hosted domains). The only other ones I'd found for Windows Smartphones required the .Net Compact Framework 2, which I can't install. Seems to work ok, though it's been a little temperamental this afternoon, but that might be because we get almost no mobile signal in our office...

You Are 88% Cynical

You're cynicism borders on paranoia. Worry less. You're out to get the world as much as it's out to get you.

Hat tip: Outside the Lines

I've just read a very interesting article by Peter Gutmann, called A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection. To quote the executive executive summary, "The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history". You can find it here.

Now, by background I'm a Microsoft sort of person. I've worked as a developer on pretty much all versions of Windows since 3.1, and I don't even have Linux installed on any of my home PCs at the moment. However, everything I've read about Vista has made come to the conclusion that there's no way I'm going to install it on any of my PCs unless Microsoft give up on the bloody stupid idea of crippling people's PCs at the behest of the studios. The injury to be added to the insult is the price of the damn thing, too - Amazon have Home Premium listed at £220.

Hat tip: Boing Boing.