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Coincidence, unlucky or linkbait ?

By John Garner on Thursday, April 20, 2006

In an article posted on Oilman's blog there is a story about a guy looking for a girl he met in an airport, I posted a note about it yesterday. I also came across a comment by IrishWonder on the same post : Am I being too cynical or is it a cool case of […]

A new blog every second !

By John Garner on Thursday, April 20, 2006

A new article at emarketer, based on the latest Technorati report illustrates how the blogosphere is now at over 35 million blogs. The average rate at which new blogs are created each day means that a new blog is created nearly every second of the day ! In August 2003 there were 0.5 million blogs […]

Love at first sight in an airport; can be complicated

By John Garner on Thursday, April 20, 2006

A young French man (why young, just a guess actually) called Kevin Amoros, seems to have met the love of his life in an airport. The problem is that he didn't get her number or her name for that matter, but love "gives you wings" as they say in French. So he placed an advert […]

Une Notte A Napoli, Pink Martini

By John Garner on Thursday, April 20, 2006

If you enjoyed listening to the Pink Martini album below, Hang On Little Tomato, you may well find these links very interesting. Two recordings of Pink Martini in the KCRW studios, taken from the Hang on little tomato album : Une Notte A Napoli Hang On Little Tomato There is also an interesting interview with […]

Bush explains he has the Beatles on his iPod !

By John Garner on Thursday, April 20, 2006

Bush explains he listens to the Beatles on his iPod. Now this most probably doesn't sound much of a sensational piece of information does it ? The problem is that the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) professes that transferring a song from a CD to MP3 file ; ripping a song from a CD […]

Who invited the Blair wolf in amongst the Labour lambs ?

By John Garner on Monday, April 17, 2006

An alarm system is extra insurance from my perspective that gives you piece of mind since there is little I can do about the global picture that leads to burglaries. Spiegel's interview with Kenneth Rogoff from Harvard can probably be considered similar to an alarm. In effect Rogoff discusses the alarming effect that 'unbridled capitalism' […]

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