A couple quick music notes

A couple things I noticed while I was on vacation the past couple weeks.

Pat Metheny fans can now get the Metheny Manzer guitar but the offering is very limited. If I had $32,000 to spend on a guitar, I'd buy one.

Billy Ward is now offering his wonderful trio recordings up Radiohead-style for download with a donation - pay what you believe it's worth. The videos are especially interesting to me since I like watching the band play. I'd prefer to have them in HD format for my TV, but hey, you have to start somewhere. I already bought Billy's trio record from amazon mp3, but I still think the video downloads are a great idea for those of us who don't live in NYC.

Jingle Bells by Austrian Death Machine

There are some real gems on Amazon mp3. Check out this clip by Austrian Death Machine from their release titled "A Very Brutal Christmas".

acer restore failed reason 0xd0000017

Should you have this problem with your acer while trying to restore the vista partition, simply download, burn, and run this utility to zero out the hard drive partition. Then, run the restore again. Works like a charm. I got into this situation after blowing the vista partition away with a linux install. YMMV.