There is something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time, but have
not been able to find a legal way to execute it.

Side Note: It doesn’t have to be legal, but it must be difficult to
detect and difficult for me to get in trouble.

How many times have you heard an awesome song and gotten yourself a
copy. The song might be rare, hard to find, or pretty obscure, but you
just want to share it with your friends. Some people, like my friend
Viraj, create a blog (http://http://videorue.blogspot.com/) where they
can post a YouTube link to the song. People take time to mix a song
with some graphics and post it onto youtube. I appreciate his efforts,
but the format isn’t easy to consume. You have to be sitting at your
computer, not on your phone, and manually click to start each song.

I want to podcast my music. A legitimate podcast where I can share my
MP3′s with my friends. I bought them legally, most through Amazon MP3,
after hearing them on Pandora (also paid subscription). I don’t mind
paying for my music, but I want a good way to share it.

Things I’ve considered are:
1. Putting up a private wordpress blog with PodPress where I can
upload all of this music, share the links with my friends, and
subscribe my Android phone to download automagically from.
2. Finding a third party podcasting service where I can upload my own stuff

The first one puts me at the mercy of my ISP. I’ve been caught for
doing this before with a prior ISP and they threatened to shut my site
down and send some kind of notice to the RIAA if I refused to comply.
I complied.

The second option could be shut down at any time and may not gain any
permanence. I used to upload stuff to CafePress.com, and they took
draconian measures to keep copyrighted content off of their site: If
they suspected that you didn’t own the content you posted, they’d
delete it immediately. They weren’t even 50% correct identifying
copyrighted content, and after the third or fourth time they deleted
all of my shit, i got fed up and gave up.

Just ranting and raving. I really want to be able to share my music!

Should I feel dejected for getting out-bid on something I really really really wanted? Or smart for not being foolish enough to pay list price?

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I am starting a job in 10 days with an amazing company OPOWER in arlington Virginia!

I’m really really excited about it. Ill be moving to DC this coming week. Ill miss you last remaining Bostonians and my family. But I’m so ready to go!

Also I’m falling into the Mac fanboy group. They just bought me a sweet new macbook pro 15,

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The Harvard Chinese food truck is back on Oxford street. Nice!

My good friend Donnie and I used to snack here after CS121. And by snack, I mean to eat a huge tray of Chinese food for $6 and sit around when we became too fat to move.

The cart is parked on Oxford Street near Harvard, immediately in front of Maxwell Dworkin Hall and near the Harvard Law School. It seems to stay from 11am-2pm, though the good dishes usually run out by 1:30pm.

Today I had Szechuan Pork on black mushrooms.

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Hope everyone gets some time off. I’m in Miami about to get on a big boat and head to the Bahamas. Can’t wait to be back on a beach its been almost three months.
Cheers!

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