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I have for the past few months been enjoying my subscription to PressPlay. I take great interest in today’s news that Roxio has acquired PressPlay. It will be fun watching Roxio relaunch the Napster service.

My family is hooked on PressPlay. I have a PC configured with PressPlay connected to our Bose home theater. We use Windows XP’s Remote Desktop feature to control the PressPlay PC from a laptop via my home 802.11 Network. When friends come over for drinks a laptop on the island of our kitchen serves as the world’s greatest jukebox.

A recent demo for my Dad went something like this.

• I selected a link on my tablet PC’s desktop to remote desktop to my PressPlay PC
  • I asked my Dad what year he graduated and then selected the billboard charts for that year from the PressPlay plug-in for Windows Media player.
    • I asked what his favorite song was back then, selected it and immediately resounding throughout the speakers in my home was a Buddy Holly song.
    My Dad was touched, amazed and thought he had seen some special future technology due to my employer. No early adopter bits were shown, just a mixture of home networking, Windows Media, PressPlay and Windows XP. Since the music is downloaded and not burned to a portable player the base subscription for PressPlay is all I need.

After many failed attempts at writing a web log and finally being encouraged by two co-workers to pick up the proverbial pen I’m at it once again.

I’ve played with a number of the web-logging clients this last year. I’ve used Blogger.com for my family photo gallery, BlogX for an Internal weblog, Erablog to test the new Windows Media Plug-in and now Radio for this weblog.

Radio has it quirks (doesn’t all software :-)), but I decided to shell out $39.95 for it nonetheless. People who build software for our platform like Radio, put food on the table for my family.

So it feels good to return the favour by supporting a small software company like Userland.