iRATE is pretty cool. I never realized this many artists released their music like this. However, I think iRATE needs a couple things to really take off. The first thing is an online database of all music in the database. The second, going well with the first, is the ability for people to submit entries for the database. (That is especially good for artists who want to add their own music to the database.)
The database could also list information about the artist (like website or email), and other songs he/she/they made. Even an Amazon-ish "people who highly rate this song also highly rate..." type of metric could be nice.
Jobs (still quite nonexistant)
Sadly, the job hunt is still going. Even the local McDs isnt hiring. I would rant about the sad state of the economy, and that the war in iraq is killing it off, but why bother: I'm preaching to the choir.
Shadow Conflict and Project Inferno
This is where I insert a comment about how progress is going slowly. But you should be happy that there is any progress at all. ;)