I should have done this yesterday! I totally would have said I was listening to Viva La Vida by Coldplay over and over again...but it wouldn't have worked, because anyone who knows me would have realized it was an April Fool's joke. So, what are the Zune Insiders really listening to? Well, Candice ( Bliss16 ) is currently obsessed with Dave Matthews Band's song "Crush," and I have to admit, I love this one, too. "It's perfect for a die-hard romantic like me," she...

I heard a song on the radio yesterday that reminded me totally of Matt...it's Asher Roth's " I Love College ." A couple of things about this song: -- Totally NOT my genre (it's hip hop, I pretty much only like Kanye West's " Stronger " and that's because of the Daft Punk , of course) -- It's so obnoxious that if my kids had been in the car, I would have had to change the radio station immediately! But it's catchy and it made me laugh out loud. To be...

Okay, I go first! I have fallen in love...deeply in love. It's kind of obsession, actually...and with my Zune Pass, it borders on stalking. I noticed last week that The Prodigy had put out a new album - " Invaders Must Die ", so I gave it a listen, and had one of those immediate, visceral reactions. I can't explain it - I just love it. I only really knew a couple of songs from The Prodigy before - so now I feel like I have all this new-to-me stuff to explore. Yay! Along similar...

Here's a thing about software development. This dude I used to work with would sometimes, in the winter, head up to the mountains for some pre-work skiing before rolling in to the office at noon or 1, and in the summer, take off early for some afternoon wakeboarding. When asked about it, he pointed to the cyclical nature of our jobs: during certain parts of the software development lifecycle, he works from dawn until the wee hours of the morning...and during other parts, not so much. He called...