It is a very quiet morning and I find myself listening to "The Waters and the Wild" by Al Petteway on my iPod. Al is a wonderful finger-style guitarist and I've been to three or four live performances.
I can't claim to be a fan of the major record labels or distributors and tend to buy music at concerts or online directly from the musicians. You can buy Al's CDs at
http://www.fairewood.com/al.html
Another iPod user can be seen taking walks in my neighborhood. He seems taken with wild gestures as he moves - perhaps he is preparing for the air guitar championship coming up next month in Finland.
http://www.omvf.net/
The thought of such an event is disturbing and perplexing - on the same level as the popularity of the Tango in that Northern country.
http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/tangoeng.html
Thinking about human movement, we take a segway to .. well .. Segway
http://www.segway.com/
Much has been written about this to the point where the hypeometer has been pegged a few times with a little help from dot.com generation technology writers. The engineering behind it appears to be brilliant, but one wonders how well it will catch on. The business version seems spendy and many of the applications might better be served by industrial tricycles. The private version will be completing with bikes, which are faster, less expensive and offer exercise. A cheaper consumer version is in the works, but it seems far too expensive for most users and one has to ask where it would actually be useful. It would be interesting to locate studies on the movement of people to see if there are any unfilled niches.
Bjarne points out an interesting piece in New Scientist. What happens when you read a serious note on the medireview period? Yahoo has an email security filter that chops out the nasty bits that could be exploited and replaces them with less bothersome verbage. Perhaps people will treat them like jpeg artifacts ... perhaps important legal documents will no longer be important or legal...
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992546
A note to folks who are new to this type of presentation... Check the calendar for more notes. In my case this means going back to July 12.
4:45:26 AM 
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