More photos of everyone's favorite kid.  (Or, at least, my favorite kid.)

Two new awesome cloud-based services have popped up in the last couple weeks: Google Music, and Spotify.  They both offer awesome new ways to enjoy your music, but which one is better?  Meanwhile, there's a spoiler hidden among those clouds . . .

When a friend of mine said he had Google+ invitations available, I asked for one.  Now I'm part of an elite group of early adopters.  What does that mean?  That means I'm on a brand spanking new social network with 9 friends.  That's way below critical mass.  You can hear the echo.  So, why pay attention?

Thumbs Down

It seems awfully harsh to give this fine piece of software a thumbs down, and perhaps it's undeserved.

The good part: I've got a cool photo of the Space Shuttle.  But first, why that's important: