Links: Roland founder dies, workplace entrance themes, BitTorrent repivot.

Ikutaro Kakehashi, founder of Roland, has died age 87.
“This blog post details how I hacked the office WiFi to play entrance theme music for my colleagues when they entered the building each morning.”
BitTorrent, Inc. gets out of ridiculous spinoff projects nobody wants and goes back to maintaining the uTorrent client, which still makes their money. The reason is that CEO, founder and inventor of the BitTorrent protocol, Bram Cohen … has the Bitcoin bug.
… which leads nicely into the damned book. Finishing it is like Zeno’s paradox of writing. Expect Rocknerd to continue to be slow while I try to finish something actually intended to make money. (And not Bitcoins.) Discopedia has helped.