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• Seems like a new generation of blog tools is comming to life. Techcrunch is running a story about SixApart's new hosted blogging platform called Comet. It will allow WYSIWYG editing, easy uploading of images, audio and video, tags, and so on.. They will start letting users test it on Thursday, June 1.

• Petter Abilla, former amazon.com employee, blogs about his interview & job offer from google, which he declined after perceiving there wouldn’t be any google stock units envolved. Interesting read, especially this brain teaser they made him on an interview:

you are at a party with a friend and 10 people are present including you and the friend. your friend makes you a wager that for every person you find that has the same birthday as you, you get $1; for every person he finds that does not have the same birthday as you, he gets $2. would you accept the wager?

• Tommorow there will be a semminar about academic spin-offs at the University. On another level, of course, will be the international conference on Academic Spin-Offs, to be held in Santiago de Compostela next 15th and 16th June, which seems promising although too expensive for me right now. Funny how the dokuwiki plugin replaces T-i-a-g-o with a link to the plugin author

On music listening, I’m trying to hear new stuff.

Some bands/players I wish to know better:

• Porcupine Tree (after recommendation from Last.fm)
• Opeth (after recommendation from several people).

I’ve recently heard:

• an Woody Allen album but didn’t appreciate much.
• Jim Matheos album “First Impressions” - very nice, just instrumental but calm and relaxing.
• Joe Satriani album “Super Colossal” - extremely nice.
• Jesse Cook album “Free Fall and Nomad” - extremely nice.

Note to self: Listen even to more new stuff.