0010 - 50 Foot Wave

Around 8 or 9 years ago, I worked as a freelance IT guy.  I'm not sure I was particularly well cut out for the life of a freelancer - I didn't put enough time into finding new work, so while I was happy with having lots of time to do "my own thing", I also never really had quite enough money to be comfortable.

Part of my problem was one specific website: epitonic.com.  It looked a bit different back then - a lot less web 2.0 (god, how I hate that term) than it does today.  On days when I wasn't working, and a lot of days when I ought to have been, I'd go to Epitonic, pick a band I liked and then just spend the day clicking on links they suggested to similar bands and downloading whatever mp3s were offered for free, to burn them to CD and listen to them at my leisure.  It was a great way to find new music and all legal and above board, which was nice.