One of my sources for 80's MP3s, Audio Paragon, will no longer be updated. *sigh* Fortunately, my favourite source The First Cut, is charging along full steam. Another frequent download site for me is the Rare 1980's MP3 of the Week site, hosted by someone (besides me) who remembers CFNY from the good old days.
It's quickly approaching 4 in the morning and I still can't sleep. Have got the Roaring Boys' "House of Stone" looping on WinAmp. Took me forever to find it. Finally did on Wave Fanatics a few weeks ago. Saw a ton of other stuff there which I'd love to get at some point, but the poor chap who runs the site is rather bandwidth deprived and I've not been able to log in again.
My other listening options at this time of the night include 1groove.com, which you can get locally over the airwaves in Toronto via CIUT between midnight and 6. CBC Radio One likes to broadcast programming from other countries in the graveyard slot. I haven't got the attention span for it right now. CBC Radio Two still churns out "Brave New Waves", but I haven't been a regular listener of that since the Brent Bambury years. And I have no idea what CBC Radio Three is, except that there's some pain-in-the-ass Flash animation on the website, and I'm not having much luck with the streaming audio portion of it at the moment. (Had to turn off WinAmp.) QFD.
("QFD", as you may or may not recall from one of the sidebars in Douglas Coupland's Generation X, stands for "quelle fucking drag". I've used it quite frequently in my written journals over the years.)
Just surfed over to Business 2.0, and from there hopped over to CNet for an article about the price Sun is going to charge for StarOffice 6.0. Whereas previous versions were free, the newest will set you back $75.95 (presumably US$). Although I like the idea of reworking all their file formatting to be XML compatible, I just don't use StarOffice enough to justify coughing up the cash for it. Yes, it's MS Office compatible but it doesn't have all the features that I use (I tend to push my software pretty hard). Still, if you're not as fussy as me and don't have to worry about 100% compatibility with M$ products, I daresay it's worth looking into.
Going to end here and make another attempt at sleep....