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At the show, there were&#151no kidding(!)&#151<i>five</i> people who came over and complimented me on this here blog. I was flattered. One was <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/101805asynth/">Josh Gladstone</a> who said he was surprised to learn that he was the first to buy Todd’s At Work CD. And, patting his pant pocket, he added: “I’ve already got it in my <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/mediaservers/934/index.html">iPod</a&gt;.” Another was Mike C., of <a href="http://www.hobokenrockcity.com/">Hoboken Rock City</a>, who keeps a blog of his own and frequently sends out fun <a href="http://www.hobokenrockcity.com/playlists.asp">podcasts</a&gt;.

<a href="http://www.ericswanson.com/">Eric Swanson</a>, the man who makes our covers look so awesome, is visiting from Santa Fe, New Mexico. He’s in NYC to attend the <a href="http://www.photoplusexpo.com">PhotoPlus Expo</a> at the Javits Center, but was able to drop by our office today and treat me to lunch. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Eric for about four years, but had never met him in person. We’d only communicated via e-mail and over the phone. I always thought, by the sound of his voice, that he’d be a kind and thoughtful person. I was right.

“Are these things on?”

Hi Mr. Andrews. You left <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/101405nosweeping/">this comment</a>:<br>

Good Guys, the California A/V retailer that overextended itself in an aggressive build-up plan that maxed out at 71 stores, is not long for this world. CompUsa, which acquired the chain in 2003, closed six free-standing Good Guys stores and another five CompUSA/Good Guys megastores in late September. CompUSA will close the remaining 25 stores and three regional distribution centers within 80 days&mdash;following <A HREF="http://www.goodguys.com/canv.htm">liquidation sales</A>.

I stood in my kitchen, looking around, dumbly: “What am I forgetting?”

Efforts to restrict the ways consumers use music they have purchased continue unabated. <A HREF="http://www.sunncomm.com">SunnComm</A&gt; (along with its sales and marketing arm <A HREF="http://www.mediamaxtechnology.com">MediaMax</A&gt;) has announced that its "newest patent-pending passive technology makes it even more difficult to bypass or 'hack' the copy protection structure contained on the MediaMax CDs."