life hereafter

I’ve become moderately obsessed with finding the song that plays in the new macbook air commercial.

I think I’ve succeeded:

New Soul by Yael Naim

From a lovely little article I read today on why it costs so much to send a text message:

What exactly justifies making SMS messages sixty one million times more expensive than ISP data and 200x more expensive than TCP/USPS? How come technology, communication, and infrastructure is getting cheaper while the costs of SMS messages are increasing exponentially? My theory: SMS messages are transfered over air made of solid gold.

Dear Circuit City,

I used to hate you because your stores were crap. Now I hate you because your ads for your ‘firedog service’ (more on that later) take over the entire damn webpage. Leaving me unable to click any link without being taken to your puke green website.

Curtly,

-b

P.S. Who the hell names a service which helps fix and set up computers, FireDog… Your name tells me nothing about what you do. My first reaction is… ‘How is a dalmatian going to help me with my computer problems?’

That little text message you sent me at 4:51am as a daily reminder really was a bit early for me.

Perhaps next time you could maybe send one out at a more reasonable time… around 8 maybe?

Thanks,
-b

I love April fools day solely because of the crazy new stories that end up getting posted all over the place. Here are two from Google;

• Toilet Based Internet Service Provider (including a step-by-step installation guide)
• Gmail on Paper

Additionally, here is a quote from an unnamed co-worker (in all seriousness):

When is April Fools Day… is that in April? … Oh, wait… never mind.

Apple you whore… why does 1 gig of RAM from you cos 300 bucks!? My computer only cost $479! That means the memory to upgrade it cost 63% as much as the machine!!! Agh… something else to spend money on…