as at today

Greetings

I was going to start with an ‘apologies for not having written lately’ but the simply hired guys just did it for all the blogizens that stop for a reason or other

so what’s it been? actually spending quite a bit of time away from the pc, enjoying the family and talking to people (more on that in upcoming entries)

other highlights, to get back into the habit:

reading:
- at the beginning of
* naked conversations, with imho clumsy writing but it may have a few nuggets
* life of pi for the third time
* queen the early years mercury is what elvis is for the boomers, period

- in the middle of
* you’re in charge now what you never know
* the mistery of capital – why the usual structural suspects do not fully explain the failure of capitalism in third world countries

- finished
* liars very accessible; i just hope that sweeping statements that sound true have been really checked out
- long tail a more academic tone and we have ourselves a textbook – interesting thinking and online economy modelling, tho based on anecdotes
- your blog(s) and emails, some of which have an outstanding reply

listening:
- thievery corporation versions dubbed out versions of previous releases some ot them better than originals as it usually happens, which sucks as far as early buyers go
- federico aubele gran hotel buenos aires guitarist living and hiding his huge argentinian ego in washington – just joshing…
- radiokijada samples, a project by gotan’s christoph mueller and paris-residing peruvian rodolfo muñoz
- herbert scale (heard a bit from their presentation at the hollywood bowl – trippy)

watching:
- the pentagon papers with a skinny james spader being the victim of a watergate entry drill
- high fidelity which makes me rekindle my vinyl days and the desire to work for a record shop – one day, one day
- the princess bride to watch with the kid, and also to check if i sound like the spaniard who’s trying to avenge his father’s death (I don’t Katy)
- thank you for smoking effective because it takes the p**s of itself

checking online:
- emurse, which has crept in function quite a bit since the days when first reported; and also sporting a revenue model. Hey Alex: do start ups license their technology, or do they consider it suicide in the early days?
- farecast, a predictors of airfares for travellers (now oracling for LA!)
- a random sample from Seth Godin’s Web 2.0 Traffic Watch List

Now, is this a derivative post or just lazy? non derivative, non derogatory non derided comments welcome as usual