"Winternals/SysInternals acquired by Microsoft" - isc.sans.org

Winternals/SysInternals acquired by Microsoft

http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1493

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2006/07/on-my-way-to-microsoft.html

ouch..

SysInternals makes freeware tools that make maintenance and security of a Windows installation more convenient with programs such as Autoruns and Process Explorer [they're just enablers not actually necessary to clean out a machine]. boh. Well, someone will continue this kind of work for free if the tools go out of date or become commercial..

Be Who You Are

Album: Bee Gees, Living Eyes (1981)
Instruments: Strings, horns, guitar, vocal, drum
Style: slow
Features: orchestra
Duration: 6:41
Modern Discovery: May 2006

[2 minute orchestral introduction]

Be who you are
Don't ever change
the world was made to measure by your smile
so smile.

Those crazy dreams
we threw, we threw away
and never been alone with [you]
I never could

They say
Love will find a way
and love will never be set free
and I won't ever let you be
You could not understand
you never will..

Be who you are
I bless, I bless your name
and all this summer madness this caused the rain
and we, we
aaahhhhhhhaahhhhhhhaaaaaa
aaahhhhhhhaahhhhhhhaaaaaa
aaahhhhhhhaahhhhhhhaaaaaa

The Glory that remains
my love will grace the halls of time
a love that never can be mine
you could not love me then
I love you still

Be who you are
Seize life and find a way
and I will be that shadow loving you
you are
be who you are
We were..

Be who you are

Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire [New album September 2006]

I discovered Sean Lennon's MySpace [myspace.com/seanonolennon] page a month and a half or so ago with the pleasant surprise that he has a new album coming out in September called Friendly Fire.

I just got the itch to make an entry about this when looking at his music info on the page where there is a "Sounds like" category and Sean wrote

Sounds Like The demise of a relationship as perceived by a white gardenia blossom sitting unnoticed in a cup of rain water.

which I find very amusing. :)

The first single is called Dead Meat and he has a copy streaming on the page. It seems like a dreary song but I think it's really about justice, "getting what you deserve." I look forward to seeing the music video. There's a trailer for the album also found from his myspace page.

A little history:
Back when I was first collecting the Beatles 13 albums and singles in 1997-98 Sean Lennon [who is John Lennon's son with Yoko Ono] released his first album Into the Sun. {Tangent: Julian Lennon, John's son with Cynthia, also released an album called Photograph Smile --we'll have to talk about this one another time.} I remember the music video for Home, the first single of Into the Sun being on MTV but I never caught it in its entirety. The next Sean Lennon interaction was through a friend's sister who met him backstage some place [hah]. Then one day I saw Into the Sun on clearance at Best Buy for 7.50.. ouch.

Fast forward to junior year of university life and I bought Into the Sun off eBay for maybe the same price and I loved it. Two Fine Lovers [I had a penchant for playing ironic songs of situations], Bathtub ["When there's falling rain on the ground, never let it bring you down, I wish you were around"], and Breeze [played with the idea of obsession --"I can't ever forget about"], were my favorites. I also loved Queue, Photosynthesis (a crazy instrumental), Part One of the Cowboy Trilogy, Mystery Juice, Into the Sun, Home, Wasted and the whole rest of the album.

The new album's title, "Friendly Fire" --it really brings about that sense of betrayal, that you've been "shot" by your own side..

Sean Lennon - Dead Meat

Dead Meat, don't you know you're dead meat

You're gonna get what you deserve, get what you deserve

Now is an exciting time with Sean Lennon having a new album, Dhani Harrison starting to write music, and Julian Lennon conjurging up some new music too.