Dennis D. McDonald (ddmcd@ddmcd.com)consults from Alexandria Virginia. His services include writing & research, proposal development, and project management.
Instead of carving a pumpkin this year (last year I carved Thomas the Tank Engine and the year before John Kerry) I created a playlist containing selections from my music collection that I thought had a spooky, ethereal, or weird sense.
I've complained before about iTunes seeming preference for locking in file formats. I have loaded many of my CD's into iTunes and have also purchased some music from the iTunes store.
When I heard that WETA, a public radio station in the Washington DC market, was going to drop classical music for more talk radio, I was ... profoundly disinterested.