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Lo, I have sunk into the depths of consumerisim…

I am far from being a “trendy” kind of guy. I tend to be either ahead or behind the curve in terms of whats cool and whats not.

Case in point: I had my first “website” before the Internet existed…okay, it was a BBS, but it was up and running in 1980. Arguably it was a blog, since I posted opinion pieces, and it was as close to the ‘web’ as you could get in 1980. And it had a forum of sorts. I was 16 at the time, and in those days no one except a real loser had a computer.

Flash forward to 2005. Everyone is on the Internet. Blogs are the “new” cool thing. Years ago, all the trendy folks started buying iPods. I was pretty skeptical, and even recently I stated some rather negative opinions about the gadget itself.

But I finally went out a couple of weeks ago and bought an iPod. I was seduced…
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