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geh wohin dein herz dich traegt

Originally uploaded by ·nel·.

Great and relaxing photo found on Flickr.
I like how the focus is done and the general atmoshpere.
Babelfish translates the title as:
“go where your heart you carries” which maybe better as
“Go where you heart carries you”

better than a basket

Originally uploaded by Sam Lamb.

Good morning.
I want some eggs for my breakfast.
This a photo from one of my flickr contact.
To me, it’s a wonderful shot
The association of colors between the dress, the skin and the egg shells is perfect. I like the composition too.

When I read last week that Virgin Atlantic was banning the use of all Apple and Dell laptops due the battery recall I was angry at them as itis be unfair to the customers with non-dangerous batteries (including those who like me have proceeded to the exchange).

I’m glad they modified their policies but they should have thought of that before communicating. To their defense, I would say the timing of these battery recall badly coincided with the terror alert period in UK airports. They must have been on “paranoid” mode.

That reminds the unfortunate accident where an IBM laptop exploded in an airport because of the battery. An airport is the last place bar one where you want your laptop to explode

Maybe Hollywood will make a sequel to “Snakes on a plane” called “Batteries on a plane”

Virgin eases in-flight Apple, Dell laptop battery limits: ”

Only machines unaffected by vendors’ recalls

Exclusive Virgin Atlantic has updated its restrictions for the use of Apple- and Dell-branded notebook computers on its flights. The good news: the ban on battery use is no longer total - the company is now restricting only those batteries whose serial numbers are covered by the vendors’ product recalls.…

“

(Via The Register.)

smoke from a local forest fire

Originally uploaded by etravus.

Great colors on this photo from one of my flickr’s contact

Originally uploaded by sistereden2.

The most amazing fish I’ve seen on Flickr!

Originally uploaded by e m i.

A happy and superb poto from a flickr Contact

Under the Boardwalk

Originally uploaded by .: Eliana :..

Beautiful sky I found on Flickr

to change a bit, I’ve got a positive thing to say about MySpace.
Few months ago I’ve been to the 606 club (a well known Jazz club in Chelsea) to listen to a band centered around the lead female singer.
It was a great moment.
The singer was advertising her album, and she gave the audience the url to here website on MySpace. Her name was Juliet Kelly.

Is she one of these “3 millions” ?
(*cough*, see my previous post for why I’d rather take this number with caution)

I think if her tunes were downloadable, I could be attracted, not because they are MP3 or lacks of DRM, but because they come straight from the artist.
(it’s comparable to the Fair Trade for third world food producers)

This will give a kick in all of this stinky music distribution business.
I think the problem is more the Music industry rather than DRMs.

But, I’d be honest and say that right now, buying it on the iTunes Music Store (her songs are also available there doesn’t bother me at all as it is more convenient for me:

• I use iTunes to play my songs on various computers (which iTunes DRM allows, even in different country!),
• I’m on the verge of owning an iPod that read itunes DRMed songs natively (I keep saying that for the last 3 months),
• burning the songs on CD is enough to strip out the DRM layer which I do anyway to backup the song (and the limitation of 10 burnings is not one as changing the playlist reset the counter)
• For the same bitrate, the AAC format is still better than MP3

Oh and by the way, any artist can submit songs directly to the iTunes Music Store without having to be signed in a label.

Myspace to Sell MP3s From Unsigned Bands: “soldrinero writes ‘Yahoo! news is hosting a story about a new competitor to Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Nearly all the other iTunes competitors have been strongly controlled by the music industry, shackled in DRM, and giving little back to artists. The new MySpace music store will feature vanilla MP3 downloads at prices set by the individual bands (3 million of them!), all or nearly all of whom are unsigned musicians with no industry affiliation. Is this the example we have all been waiting for of how the Internet will obviate the business model of the recording industry?’

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While waiting for the bus on thursday, I’ve been surprised by a British Airways advert on the bust stop. It features a satellite photograph of the city of Nice.
On the top-right corner, there was a big “courtesy of Google Earth” text written.
Today I saw the advert on TV which showed a typical Google Earth navigation between 2 places (London and the BA destination in the Middle East)

Google is really everywhere.

I’m already using the google search box in Firefox regularly for conversions and arithmetics, and recently I’ve discovered you can lookup definitions by using “define:” before the word you’d like to define.

Few weeks ago I was reading that MySpace was claiming more than 109 millions users.
My thoughts at that time was:

That’s a lot of users. How many of them are

• spammers, scammers and viral marketers
• virtual accounts created by mySpace to sexify their market value
• one off account created by individuals that wanted to see what is it about
• created out of boredom and where holders main activity is silent browsing of strangers profile
• duplicate accounts of forgetful legit users

And this morning I found that on Digg:

MySpace Not So Social Anymore: “MySpace is no longer a social site, corporate spam-peddlers have taken over. Fake celebrity profiles, corporations posing as 13 yr-old girls to sell products, and a growing flood of ads is too much even for undemanding, noobish MySpace users. If something isn’t done, it’s only a matter of time before MySpace goes the way of AOL.”

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