So, I’m sure you’re dying to know what was playing on my iPod while I was wandering around magical Edinburg or trying to sleep on the airplane over the Atlantic. What haunted my spirit as I peered at the Stone of Destiny or searched for 221b Baker Street?
Tags: iPod, iTunes, playlist, UK, vacation, Edinburgh, music
Now here’s something that isn’t making headline news and should be. This will affect everyone if it makes it through and probably people either think no one will be able to enforce it or it’ll never happen in their life time. This is real Big Brother type stuff.
If you’ve ever been frustrated because you were using a library, campus, military, or work computer and couldn’t get to a website because it was blocked, imagine if your phone company or service provider could do that to you just because they want more money? Imagine that your service provider could charge you extra to go to ebay or Amazon.com or bloglines or cnn.com. Imagine that your service provider could decide whether or not you could read Air America’s site or Rush’s or Fox News or NPRs based on their politics not yours.
Just think about it.
Congress is pushing a law that would abandon “network neutrality.” Network neutrality prevents companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from choosing which Web sites open most easily for you based on who pays them more. Your local library shouldn’t have to outbid Barnes & Noble for the right to work more properly on your computer.
If the public doesn’t speak up now, Congress will hand control of the Internet to companies that want to decide what you do, where you go and what you watch online. Politicians are already trading favors for campaign donations from these companies. They’re selling us out to people like AT&T’s CEO, who says “the Internet can’t be free.”
Internet freedom could soon be fenced in by the phone and cable companies. If Congress turns the Internet over to AT&T, everyone will be affected.
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Tags: COPE Act, Congress, net neutrality, blogs, iTunes, web hosting, politics, Internet
So, I went to visit Pugly today and I spent over 20 minutes lost going and over an 1 hour lost coming back. I never did find the route I was looking for and ended up taking a different way back. Could have saved myself an hour and a quarter tank of gas if I’d just gone that way to begin with. *sigh*
Anyway, so I decided not to limit this week’s playlist to the last 25 songs. You get to see what I listened to there and back again. 
I’ve mostly been listening to talk radio — the news in particular — and watching TLC or Lord of the Rings all weekend. The last time I acually listened to my iPod was when I went to see Pugly on Tuesday and I was in a country kind of mood, so here’s this week’s list of the last 25 songs I played…
Here’s this week’s installment of the the last 25 things I listened to on my iPod Mini. I know you all are just holding your breath in anticipation because I’m the source of all that’s cool and fashionable. 
(By the way, I listened to most of these while writing the previous post.)
I don’t know if I’m bored or curious, but I decided I wanted to know what I’ve actually been listening to. Really, I’d try to blame the fact that I’ve been coming down with a full-on head cold complete with cold sores, sneezing, stuffy ears, and not breathing since Friday night and I can’t seem to focus on what really concerns me for very long, but I was looking at various iTunes plugins before that.
So, without further delay…
Tags: music, iPod, playlist, recently played, iTunes
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of a displaced Southerner in New England -- from just daily annoyances to conspiracy theories to political views.
The Dark Side of Christian History by Helen Ellerbe
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Marley and Me by John Grogan
The Digital Photography Book by Scott Kelby
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