iTunes is back after being blocked for offering pro-Tibet secession music. What has changed? Apple has made a change without removing the album. This is a smart accommodation, not unlike Google's method of operating in China without sacrificing its global principles, which this writer has defended in the past.

I miss facets of streaming TV. That part of scheduled entertainment will forever be ingrained in my habits. Entertainment on demand does, to an extent, strip the expectation and suspense from the enjoyment on a show.

The magic day has arrived - 08/08/08 - and like some Torch-ignited wildfire, a meme has spread across the Twittersphere whereby you include #080808 in all your twits to show your support and excitement for the Olympic Games.

VERY COOL! Formerly blurry Google Maps page of Shanghai now shows fully detailed roads.

Here I was eating my dinner and watching TV when an ad came on TV that beautifully meshed in The Mummy 3 with the Beijing Olympics for a TV commercial trailer. Now, regardless of what you may think of The Mummy (1 or 2), from an advertising perspective, that was an amazing mesh of two ads into one TV commercial.