Here are the albums that made my “best of” list for 2007. These selections made many rotations on too many planes, trains & autos. In the off chance this introduces you to some new music, that’s good - we all need diversions.

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You may notice a new sidebar widget on my site for Little Kids Rock. It’s a wonderful charity that raises funds, secures musical instrument donations and provides music education assistance programs for public schools. It’s all about the power of music in childhood development, and offsets the lack of education system funding of “discretionary programs”.

It’s even more meaningful then President Bush reading The Pet Goat.

Music & children belong together.

Start 2008 on the right note!

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However you define a great holiday, unplug and go do it!

All the best to you and yours. I’ll be back blogging in 2008.

I’s been an enjoyable ride these past few months, thanks to all for reading and contributing!

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a fun diversion for Friday…

TechFold’s blogger gives you manly advice on protecting yourself from those “wantrapreneurs“, complete with tools and instructions.

How to gird yourself with prophylactic support for your intellectual properties…yep, it’s the foldable wallet sized NDA.

don’t be caught in a bay area bar without it!

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The old adage, “go big or go home” just seems so darn… understated …

One week the blogsphere is abuzz with the early screen grabs from Google Health. The next, Google goes beyond Earth into the atmosphere, with the announcement of Google Sky.

I’m betting we’ll see Microsoft’s Black Hole Explorer announcement any day.

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While John Battelle tracks “jumping the shark” behavior via Time Magazine covers, I prefer Second City Comedy coverage, myself.

I stumbled across this while in Toronto recently. Check out the newest SC Show now running in Toronto. You know you’ve arrived when…

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I work at an office where some employees actually took a vacation day to stand in line at the Apple store (and write about it!). The rest of us sat back and ruminated over changing his Local Guide name to “the pathetic geek’s chronicle”, but alas, we’ll ohh and ahh come Monday when he comes in bleary-eyed with a mile-wide smirk.

My own plans? Well three problems prevent me from indulging. One, touch screen typing - it’s been highlighted all over the web, and, for me, it prevents it from being my mainstream device. Two, the network tethering to Cingular doesn’t work. I’ve tried all the networks and - for my needs and location - Verizon is the clear choice for voice quality and high speed coverage. Three, version one buyers of apple are a foolhardy lot with perpetually bruised foreheads. Will they never learn not to buy v1.0 of anything from Steve Jobs? geesh.

I do know, that when it achieves a legitimate replacement for my ipod, I will be ALL over it. but it needs to step up with a 40+GB hard drive and great battery life to play that (important) role in my life. Probably 2008, but not now.

It’s yet another breakthrough from Apple, and it will stake out a major slice of deserved attention for pushing the ticket on open air entertainment devices…

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Every so often I find comfort in stumbling across an innovation that has a real world dimension, and not a dang thing to do with Web 2.0.

So, in the spirit of a big fat “NOT” (best pronounced with a Kazakhstani accent) to the “Google in your Refrigerator?” speculation, I introduce you to:

Yes, it’s the “dry erase refrigerator”!

Kind of a nice to see innovation with “real ink” and imagination on the day of the iphone launch!

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