A few months ago, I was driving home from work when I heard a really cool song. This was not just any ordinary song. It was one of those impulse buy songs, and I don't buy CDs very often (I already have plenty).
So while still in the car, I drove straight to nearest music store, and start searching for the CD. I asked the checkout girl about it, and she searched in vain in the computer system. Then the answer appeared.
The CD was to be released in about a month.
Dear record executives: the song playing on the radio is your best advertisement (if it is a good song). Don't waste that momentum by separating the radio release from the CD release.
By now, my impulse to buy is long past, and while the CD is surely in the stores by now, I don't hear it on the radio anymore.
C++
About a week ago, I was tinkering with C++ iostreams, and managed to get a working streambuf for network sockets. I posted the sample code and within about 6 hours, Google had already picked it up and I started getting hits the next day. There hasn't been a day when someone hasn't requested it since, so network streambufs must be a common C++ problem. I hope it helps some folks.