I haven’t been posting for some time now. Though I have been doing a bit of WordPress tweeking here and there.

To some extend I guess, in these times of trouble especially thinking of the horrible tsunami-erupted Asian region, it seems kinda shallow that the thing that drives me to the blog is a new product from apple. Or infact several. Just now Apple has released an amazingly exciting new harddrive Mac mini that wipes out any existing harddrive pc-tower or what have you.

Sleek design, small, extremly jam-packed. It does have some resemblence to the overdesigned cube, but this time Steve & co. seems to get it just spot on. As they have been doing for some time now..!

Another new thingy is the tiny Ipod shuffle which adds an interesting feature of being unpredictable to the gadgetmarket!? I like that very much. Many digital life-hubs takes all the fun out of using them, while you have some 4000 songs in your pocket it’s looses any meaning trying to find THE song to hear! I at least find myself often listening to the same 2-3 albums over and over again! So with “Shuffle” you USB-plug the thingy, and it will suck up a random selecton in your music folder (depeding on your ratings, playlists etc. i guess) and make a unpredictable output from your musical resservoir. Random is the New Order! Give chance a chance! the buzz is not to miss - Apple nailed us again, darn it!!!

This technological suprise-feature comes especially healing after listing to Barry Schwartz the author of the book “The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less” talking at the Pop!Tech venue, where he in fact argues and drives hard evidence to the fact, that not only is the proliferated profusion of choices, that modern (western) life is so greatly determind by arrogant and selfish, its a modern disease, even a torture, and worst of: it is highly counterproductive. Use less time having to decide what you wanna hear, wear, do and more time on getting where you ougth to be. I don’t know! Still taste i bit empty-choice-like, especially if you compare this to the choices that the wictims of a life-crushing tsunami-wave are facing. But there you have it, the biases and inbalanced perspetives of today’s globalized world, ENJOY UNCERTAINTY, hmmm. Oh yes when it comes in enjoyable measures - but it doesn’t always, does it..!?