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Archive for the ‘Trains of Thoughts’ Category

Facebook, leave me alone!

Over the last few months I have started to use Facebook on a more regular basis, mostly as quite a number of my friends have migrated their networking to the platform. While I enjoy the applications and networking on Facebook, I really cant stand the targeted advertisements.  (more…)

Natali Del Conte of CNET TV

Have you been to CNET TV recently?  If you have, no doubt you will have been treated to Loaded - CNET TV’s latest show hosted by 29 year old Natali Del Conte.  While billed as a ‘podcast’, Loaded is a daily video product, produced early in the morning (East Coast time), rounding up the day’s breaking technology news. (more…)

Why I steal books…

Books on a shelf.  (Black and White)

It is not my fault. It is the books fault - being so full of knowledge.  When I read it, it becomes my own.  I have to keep the book.  A visual representation of what I have assimilated.  I do not mean to, it just happens.  It is not a calculated offense.  I know its wrong, but still, I steal books.

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Thirteen going on Thirty

Um… Yes!  I watched a girly movie.  There I admitted it, shoot me if you must!  “13 Going On 30” tells the story of the female teen, who on her 13th birthday wishes to be thirty years old.  A ‘jump-cut’ later and she finds herself in an unfamiliar apartment with a semi-naked man.  Oh, and she is thirty years old too.  For a movie fitting into the comedy genre this sounds terribly frightening. (more…)