An extra 99 cents…
September 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment |
Nothing to do with life here on Skye, but last week Apple introduced ringtones for their flagship product, the iPhone. The sting here is that you have to purchase the ringtone separate from the original song. So, let’s say I just bought Blondie’s Hanging on the Telephone in the iTunes store and decide that it makes a nice ringtone, then I’d have to pay an additional 99 cents to use it as a ringtone on my iPhone…
Astonishing, to say the least! What’s next? Do I have to pay another 50 cents if I want to dance to it? Or 1.10 if I want to listen to it over speakers in stead of a headphone because there’s a chance more people are listening to it ? I’m not too sure who’s the greedy one here. Is it Apple, $teve Job$ or is it the music industry owning the copyright? Somehow I think it’s the latter although I’m not 100% sure…
Please, somebody… wake me up! This must be a bad dream!
Panic!
June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment |
They’re back!!
Yesterday explosives where found in London, in two cars and only today a car (supposedly burning) drove through the entrance at Glasgow airport.
It’s amazing actually… as long as you do not switch on the telly or surf the internet, you wouldn’t have a clue about those things happening… Outside seagulls are still yelling at each other and everything else, seals just keep on enjoying the sun and wind, sheep are still chewing away on the grass. Nothing would indicate any of this terrorist’s related stress whatsoever. We are - in a way - living in what sometimes looks like a “last frontier”.
Gordon Brown, the fresh Prime Minister, urged the public to be vigilant and added: “I know the British people will stand together, united and resolute.”, according to the BBC.
The country is now in alarm phase “Critical” which means terror attacks could happen anywhere in the country. Well, I guess chances for anything happening on Skye are minute. I will not go on rambling about the things that motivate people to leave car bombs or perform suicide attacks on public objects… I just can’t grasp their motives.
A new ripple of terrorist fear travels the world as now also the US have raised their security measures as well. Let’s see how this one unfolds…
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Latest music...
Hair (1968, Original Broadway recording). Some naughty lyrics for that time!!
An Rathad a Bhatarsaigh, by the Vatersay Boys