Hello to all. Its been quite a while since I’ve had any news to post. And even now I don’t really have any news per-say. I have more of a story to tell. So as some of my more industrious (creepy) readers may have discovered, I also run a company called “migraineheartache. software.” With this company, I recently released a line of products called “MySpacerXP.” They were small pieces of what most would consider ‘utility’ software aimed at helping bands (or anyone really) promote themselves on the social networking website, myspace.com. There were three different versions of the program: A messenger version, a group inviter version, and an event inviter version. These were all basically just ways to shortcut having to click over and over to message people, invite them to a group, or invite them to an event, receptively. So, time went by, I created a small buzz and basically became known as “the bad guy” by my competition. (See Eek! Records) However, merely to see how my product stacked up against the others, I downloaded their product and fired it up. It was running rather slow so I decided to check out what exactly the program was doing. I then fired up my copy of Ethereal (A network protocol analyzer). Within minutes I discovered why the program was behaving so erratically, turns out that “Eek! Records” (which is owned and operated by an individual named Bob Ricci) had included some code in his “Friend Adder” program that was constantly make web requests to play one of his songs (He’s also a musician) on some obscure promotion website. So, to summarize, Eek! Records’ is using this program (which they are charging money for) to promote themselves using YOUR computer! Not only is this horrible software coding practice and bad business practice, its also bogging down the computers of all the people who are unknowingly using this product. That was merely an aside, (if Bob or Eek! get in any kind of trouble, don’t worry, I’m not sorry). Back to my story. All was well until last night when I received a cute little cease and desist letter from MySpace’s legal department. It basically was asking me to remove any references to MySpace, MySpacerXP, or any product/service that broke the MySpace.com Terms Of Services from my website and domain name. I, as most people would have been, was a little scared. Not because I thought anything could happen to me (I’ve done my homework on the subject), but I mean this was MySpace, a $580 million company. And they were sending me, ME and email. Moving on, I complied with their requests and sent them an email apologizing for any inconvenience I may have caused them. They then replied thanking me for my “prompt attention to this matter.” Now all is well, however I will no longer be selling any software that will interface with MySpace.com in anyway whatsoever. Anyways, that sounded far more complicated than it really was. But thanks for listening.