The Dave Matthews Band is releasing yet another concert on DVD. This time, it is their outdoor concert presented in New York’s Central Park in September. There is no track listing available yet, but the DVD will actually contain two discs, while the CD version will have 3 CDs. So there should be quite a lot of music in there. The release date is November 18th.

Great Big Sea will soon be releasing their first concert DVD. Simply titled “Great Big DVD”, it will contain 78 minutes of live songs, 13 video clips, a 28-minute on-tour documentary and a few other small things.

There is a brief update concerning the Barenaked Ladies disc that is coming up on October 21. The special Limited Edition will contain the CD plus a DVD of the follwoing contents:

* The album available in hi resolution Stereo and 5.1 Surround mixes
* A non-album track mixed in 5.1 surround
* 3 Studio video clips
* 11 song acoustic sessions from the album. Can be accessed as video w/ dialogue as well as audio only.

This will be an amazing edition of great new Barenaked Ladies music.

Coldplay is releasing a Live DVD, shot in Sydney, on November 4th. The DVD will contain most of their popular songs to date.

Well, I spent my week-end making my desktop less Microsoft-based. I first installed Mozilla Thunderbird, a nice e-mail client from the Mozilla project. It’s quite fast and cannot fall victim to some script viruses that Outlook Express can easily fall for.

Next in line was Mozilla Firebird. This browser has been gettign some rave reviews lately. It is very performant, based on the Netscape architecture, and supports many cool features like tabbed browsing.

Finally, I started trying out OpenOffice.org 1.1. This is an open-source freeware equivalent to Microsoft Office. I’ve written one DVD critique with it so far and must say I am quite impressed.

I’ll keep you posted on my use of these tools and if I keep using them.

The Syberia II web site has been officially opened earlier this week. The sequel to the amazing 2001 adventure game should be released in stores in spring 2004. I played through the first game and loved it. Now I want to know what will happen to the game’s hero, Kate Walker.