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from far away: life far away from blog and offline is beautiful.

Found good podcast with smooth jazz at smoothjazz.podshow.com - although it casts only monthly, typical cast goes for about 1 hr of good music. Loaded into my N81 and enjoyed already first two shows. It's RSS feed is here.

Just noticed how chibbie had one CD album got stuck in her car since March'07 and over-played  - Writer’s Block by Peter, Bjorn and John . Since Amazon.com says it is "bestseller 2007", I tried it immediately on last.fm and... Uhmmmmm.... not my music - again I got proof that I'm not into bestsellers. Or not into swedish indie pop... After all, I'm more into smooth jazz or funk. May be you would like it though.

I can understand people choosing iBuzz as their favorite sex toy - every toy has a clientèle. What I do not understand - what drives those who "also bought" Western Digital WDXMS1200TN Passport 120 GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive and significantly enough for Amazon.com to notice that: rest of sex toys (go as deep into search as you like) don't have any hi-tech part as second item in cart... One variant could - someone needs huge music collection for variety in iBuzz-driven entertainment. Another one - this is mobile life experience: kind of "all my personal things I tend to carry with me"

ValleyWag in all their wisdom decided to cast their view on future of Web in 2008. What I find most entertaining in that (with all stupidity of revenge or vendetta) - that 6apart had been casted to bite dust being solved out. For all they done to Livejournal, they couldn't deserve less. Many other topics touched too - see tags below.

Philosophical discus around of Matrix - "So the metaphor of the journey to truth that Neo takes is complete."

Brian McConnell, guest columnist at GigaOm blog cluster, writes bitter but straight-to-the-point article titled "Take This Job And Shove It — Why I Retired From Telecom", which is yet another reminder for me to go away from telecom sector and the sooner the better for me. Point is - there is nothing of same value/level job around. The bottom line from Brian is very impressive:

"...if I stayed in telecom, I’d be spending the next several years designing more bad IVR systems for banks and airlines.
No thanks."

update There are more points to follow - Rise of the Stupid Network and The Dawn of the Stupid Network by David Isenberg and his isen.blog