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Daily Archives: March 7th, 2006

Pandora music stream

I just discovered Pandora. It is a online flash streaming music player that plays the music that you like much like last.fm radio, just simpler and with instant feedback. You simply go to the site and tell them what artist or track do you like and the music starts playing in a Flash applet. Then [...]

60 rants (2)

Hospitals overcharging uninsured people http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/02/60minutes/main1362808.shtml The bulk of the story in not really that hospitals make uninsured people pay more, it is that they make insurers pay less. It looks like it is common practice in US hospitals to charge their patients for work and materials with 300-500% profit margin. Only most of the country [...]

Oscars rant

Blogging this week seem to be on a high wave for me. Which, as I previously noted, is correlated with my general level of activity. So this blob post is my braindump about 2006 Academy Awards ceremony a.k.a Oscars 2006. First of all – I love John Steward and watch “The Daily Show” daily. Opening [...]