The Spirit of GEORGIA (man beachte die Top URL: the-spirit-of-georgia.de und hat den niemand mal das Wörterbuch aufgeschlagen, Spirit ist nicht nur die Wesensart, sondern auch Alkohol) ist das neue Erfrischungsgetränk für Erwachsene aus dem Hause Coca-Cola. Benannt nach der Heimat der The Coca-Cola Company, wo man seit 1886 weiß, wie man Erfrischung macht. Produziert in und für Deutschland. The Spirit of GEORGIA ist also "Erfrischung in bester Tradition" und eine gute Alternative für alle, die in geselliger Runde nach einem passenden Getränk suchen - egal ob an der Bar, nachmittags bei Freunden oder einfach für den Durst zwischendurch.

The Spirit of GEORGIA schmeckt erfrischend fruchtig und enthält weniger Zucker und weniger Kohlensäure als herkömmliche Erfrischungsgetränke, ist dabei ohne künstliche Aromen und Farbstoffe und nicht konserviert.

The Spirit of GEORGIA gibt es in den Geschmacksrichtungen Blood Orange Kaktusfeige, Lemon Wacholderbeere und Green Mango Kiwi.

Erinnert mich stark an Dasani -überteuertes Leitungswasser in Flaschen-. Und dabei hatte doch Coca Cola erst mit "Ipsei" -wir erinnern uns noch???- versucht Bionade den Rang ab zu laufen.

Und ein Blick auf diese Tabelle zeigt, es geht nicht um Spirit, sonder um Money:

SI estas pensando alquilar una limusina en Madrid para un evento especial visita: http://www.limos-event.com

Masjid ini membuat takjub siapapun yang pernah melihatnya, yaitu kubahnya yang terbuat dari emas. Tak heran jika masjid tersebut lebih dikenal dengan sebutan Masjid Kubah Emas Depok. Masjid termegah di kawasan Asia Tenggara.

Sangat luar biasa, itulah kalimat pertama yang diucapkan pengunjung saat pertama kali melihat Masjid Dian Al Mahri di Kelurahan Meruyung, Kecamatan Limo, Kota Depok. Sebuah masjid megah berkapasitas 20 ribu jemaah tampak berdiri kokoh di atas lahan seluas 70 hektar. Bangunan masjid memiliki luas 8.000 meter persegi yang terdiri dari bangunan utama, mezanin, halaman dalam, selasar atas, selasar luar, ruang sepatu dan ruang wudu. Masjid ini mampu menampung 15 ribu jemaah shalat dan 20 ribu jemaah taklim.

Masjid yang indah dan megah ini membuat rasa penasaran pengunjung luar Jakarta untuk datang secara langsung melihat keunikan masjid ini. Mereka datang dari berbagai daerah, baik yang ada di sekitar Bogor, Bandung, maupun kota dan daerah lain di luar Jawa Barat dan Pulau Jawa. Seolah tak kenal waktu, siang dan malam pengunjung terus berdatangan silih berganti, seperti ada magnet spiritual yang begitu kuat menarik mereka.

Seperti yang dialami pengunjung bernama Rusdi. “Saya jauh-jauh datang dari Lampung ke sini karena penasaran saja ingin melihat masjid yang katanya terbuat dari emas. Tadinya saya kurang yakin, apa benar ada masjid dibuat dari emas. Tapi, setelah melihat sendiri, saya percaya,” kata pria paruh baya itu yang juga menyempatkan diri shalat Jumat di Masjid Kubah Emas.

Masjid ini telah resmi dibuka untuk umum bertepatan dengan Hari Raya Idul Adha, 31 Desember 2006. "Pembangunannya memang sudah berlangsung sejak tahun 1999, namun baru dibuka untuk umum 31 Desember 2006. Setelah shalat Idul Adha, pemilik masjid langsung meresmikan masjid ini.

“Saat itu, tak kurang dari lima ribu jemaah mengikuti pro-sesi peresmian masjid ini," kata Ir H Yudi Camaro MM, pengelola Masjid Dian Al Mahri. Selain masjid, lahan di sekeliling masjid juga dijadikan islamic centre. “Ada lembaga dakwah dan rumah tinggal sebagai tempat aktivitas keagamaan di kompleks masjid ini, “tambahnya.

Secara umum, arsitektur masjid mengikuti tipologi arsitektur masjid di Timur Tengah dengan ciri kubah, minaret (menara), halaman dalam (plaza), dan penggunaan detail atau hiasan dekoratif dengan elemen geometris dan obelisk, untuk memperkuat ciri keislaman para arsitekturnya. Ciri lainnya adalah gerbang masuk berupa portal dan hiasan geometris serta obelisk sebagai ornamen.

Halaman dalam berukuran 45x57 meter dan mampu menampung 8.000 jemaah. Enam menara (minaret) berbentuk segi enam, yang melambangkan rukun iman, menjulang setinggi 40 meter. Keenam menara itu dibalut batu granit abu-abu yang diimpor dari Italia dengan ornamen melingkar. Pada puncaknya terdapat kubah berlapis mozaik emas 24 karat. Sedangkan kubahnya mengacu pada bentuk kubah yang banyak digunakan masjid-masjid di Persia dan India. Lima kubah melambangkan rukun Islam, seluruhnya dibalut mozaik berlapis emas 24 karat yang materialnya diimpor dari Italia. Sedangkan untuk parkir, disiapkan lahan seluas 7.000 meter persegi yang mampu menampung kendaraan 300 bus atau 1.400 kendaraan kecil.

Sedangkan teknologi pemasangan emas pada kubah masjid dilakukan melalui tiga cara. Pertama, dengan serbuk emas (prada). Teknik prada digunakan pada pemasangan emas di bagian mahkota pilar (tiang kapital) yang ada di dalam bagian interior masjid.

Kedua, teknik gold plating, yakni teknik pemasangan dengan pelapisan emas berbahan dasar kuningan dan tembaga. Digunakan pada pemasangan lampu gantung, railling tangga mezanin, pagar mezanin, ornamen kaligrafi kalimat tasbih di pucuk langit-langit kubah dan ornamen dekoratif di atas mimbar mihrab.

Ketiga, teknik gold mozaic solid, yakni teknik pemasangan emas dengan ketebalan tertentu, biasanya dengan ketebalan lapisan emas sekitar 2 mm. Teknik ini digunakan pada pemasangan emas di kubah utama dan kubah menara. “Teknik pemasangan emas dan lampu gantung seluruhnya dikerjakan oleh ahli dari Italia,” kata Yudi.

Masjid ini memiliki peraturan yang cukup ketat, misalnya saja anak-anak yang berumur di bawah 10 tahun dilarang masuk ke dalam masjid. Anak-anak ini hanya boleh masuk aula saja. Untuk masalah kebersihan dan kesucian masjid, disiapkan petugas keamanan yang menjaga di sekeliling mesjid. Petugas seringkali dengan ramah mengingatkan pengunjung, misalnya untuk tidak membuang sampah sembarangan atau menginjak rumput.

Di masjid inipun digelar pengajian atau acara ceramah rutin bersama beberapa ustadz yang memang menguasai bidang kajiannya masing-masing. Sehingga masjid ini tak hanya megah secara fisik tapi juga ramai dengan kegiatan-kegiatan keagamaan setiap harinya.

 sumber : http://inilah.com/berita/2007/09/20/578/masjid-kubah-emas-magnet-baru-kaum-muslimin/

Di Markas Kepolisian Sektor Limo, Depok, Jawa Barat, Rohim menceritakan bahwa awalnya seorang penumpang minta diantarkan ke Jalan Fatmawati, Jakarta Selatan. Tiba-tiba saja sang penumpang menikam kepala pria yang telah lebih dari 25 tahun menjadi sopir taksi ini.

Korban pun mencoba melawan dan keluar dari mobil sehingga mengundang kecurigaan warga sekitar. Pelaku yang takut akan dihakimi warga akhirnya melarikan diri tanpa berhasil membawa apa pun.(ADO/Nahyudi)

Sumber: Liputan6.com

Openmoko

Their product is the Neo FreeRunner phone running the Openmoko software platform, and it is by far the most 'open' of all the mobile projects. Not only is the software totally open source and completely customizable, the CAD files for the physical phone are avaliable as well.

Unfortunately this phone is really only for the uber geek, since its primary value is in customizability and openness. If those aren't your main concerns, you can get a lot more for less.

Update: The Neo FreeRunner has sold out in less then a week! But more are on the way. Read about it here.

Android

Created by Google for the Open Handset Alliance, Android provides what Google calls a complete mobile platform. This means that it comes with all the software needed for a mobile phone, from the kernel to the core libraries to the basic applications.

In addition to the basic Android system, the are already quite a few third party applications built, due to Google releasing the SDK early and then running the developer challange. You can find many of these early applications at helloandroid, and if you want help building you own you can visit anddev.

Aside from the current lack of actual phones, the biggest problem with Android is their implementation of Java. Instead of sticking to a Java standard, which would have allowed for possible cross-compatibility with many existing applications, they went and created their own virtual machine called Dalvik. For the reason see this article.

LiMo Foundation

As opposed to Android, the LiMo Platform does not come with any applications whatsoever. Instead, each handset manufacturer is responsible for creating all their own applications, from the most basic onward. This means that the software on LiMo phones from different manufacturers will be unique in appearance and even function.

While there is currently no SDK for the LiMo Platform, the APIs are avaliable and well documented, and the SDK is slated to come out late 2008. There are also about a dozen phones already avaliable running the LiMo Platform.

The main issue that the LiMo Foundation has is a lack of a public following and hype. While Android and Openmoko are leveraging the power of community, LiMo seems to be relying solely on the will and desire of the Foundation's companies to use LiMo for purely technical reason. In other words, no one is clamoring for LiMo and very few third parties are writing software for it.

Symbian Foundation

After all the other open source excitment, Nokia bought Symbian and announced the new Foundation which would set it free. Despite the publicity stunt feeling this gives me, most tech news sites are at the least hopeful about the new Symbian Foundation.

Because I don't really know all the details, I am just going to link to some of the more informative news articles.

First Symbian Foundation handsets due in 2010 (zdnet). Link.

Nokia buys Symbian, will open Symbian OS (linux.com). Link.

Other Important Articles

Android vs LiMo: What's the difference? Link.

Crossing the chasm with Android: Can we view disruptive initiatives like Android in the context of the existing value chain? (This is a detailed and slightly hard to read analysis of the mobile market and how android might affect change). Link.

That's right. We're so classy we roll up to a college bar in a stretch. We'd just been leaving MacDougal when a Mr. John Henry, Professional Limousine Driver rolls down the window. "You ladies need a ride?"

So we took it and he was, contrary to our prejudgments, quite the gentleman. He stroked our egos and in a 10-minute ride we got a motivational speech that involved him advising us not to ever give it up for at least three months because "if he really loves you kissing and holding hands is enough!" That's right John Henry. You tell 'em.

John Henry gets a picture of us on his iPhone as exchange for driving us around.
What questionable things will he do with it? Only time will tell.

Other memories: boy who could not dance but was so hilariously cocky it was almost appealing, enormous slice of mushroom pizza that really hit the spot, and John Henry calling Jade at 3 a.m. to announce he'd found us two good-looking boys. "They're good guys! I screened them for you!"

...why is my life not a sitcom? Someone please tell me.

I am still somewhat intoxicated from brunch at Bondi Road. I'm baffled as to why there aren't brunch spots with unlimited mimosas in San Diego. Frankly, I think it's a brilliant marketing concept.

Jade rockin' a walk-of-shame outfit (AKA my newspaper staff t-shirt),
Kayla, Hillary, burgers, and never-ending drinks.

Unless there are, and I've just been missing out. In which case I fully intend to make my fall quarter a fabulous one, filled with many Screwdriver Sundays.

I have so much to take care of in the next 24 hours. My ass-kink has not recovered, for the record. This week I also need badly to: get a manipedi, buy new clothes (how is it that I've only been here for three weeks and I've worn everything in my wardrobe twice?), write something of substance, etc. I think blogging, which once served a *get out of writer's block* purpose just kills time now. Instead of doing anything productive I just blog and tell myself that was my one accomplishment of the afternoon. As if destroying any credibility with future employers is an accomplishment. Ha. I so funny.

Oh and I'm officially starting the Don't Ask Me for My Number If You Aren't Going to Call Club. It's DAMFMNIYAGTCC for short.

My goal was to get the behind the scenes candid moments of Tara & Adam's wedding.

I was also interested in some of the typical shots such as "the shoes shot" that you see a lot from wedding photogs and I wanted to find a special way to capture them.  I tried 3 different things around the room that I didn't love until I noticed this framed painting Tara's mom had against the wall!

I read it and decided that it was PERFECT!

Always kiss me goodnight

Tara's mom had the invitation all set up at the house with cute wedding bells hanging nearby:

I told Tara "don't do anything without telling me first!" which made me laugh but I meant that I wanted to make sure I got all of the little details and I didn't want to miss a thing!

I followed her around her mom & dad's house and captured moments like this...

Putting on her jewelry in her mom's bedroom mirror:

Getting out her grandmother's ring out of the box to wear (her something old):

Mom looking beautiful...waiting to put her dress on:

Dad getting his tie on:

Her sister and maid of honor helping her get her dress on:

And I even captured behind the scenes moments of the photographer showing Tara and her parents one of the photos he had just taken.

(Gerard the photog and I go waaaay back... I told him I may ask him for a job one day LOL)

After the photographer left we had some time before the limos arrived so Tara and I stood near the front door waiting.

So much natural light was shining through the door that I was psyched to not used a flash for any of these!

I saw her fix her hair and I told her to just keep her hand there.  I loved it...

Somewhere in between me following everyone around I managed to get dressed, do my make-up, fix my hair and then be ready in time to see Tara & the bridal party into the limos and follow them all to the reception:

I was a busy, busy bee!

Dopo la fusione, che si completerà nel corso di luglio, colossi come British Telecom, Telecom Italia e Freescale, oggi parte di LiPS, si uniranno ai circa 40 membri di LiMo, rafforzando l'autorità e l'importanza di questa organizzazione e contribuendo, insieme ad essa, a definire il destino di Linux sul mercato dei telefoni cellulari.

La decisione di LiPS di confluire in LiMo, e cedere a quest'ultima l'intero suo asset di specifiche e proprietà intellettuali, era quasi obbligata: nell'ultimo anno questa organizzazione ha infatti perso molti suoi membri, inclusi Access, Orange e Trolltech, a favore di LiMo e di Open Handset Alliance, l'alleanza voluta da Google per sviluppare e promuovere la sua piattaforma open source Android.

Il motivo di tali defezioni è da ricercare nell'approccio troppo formale e burocratico scelto da LiPS per favorire Linux nel mobile: mentre LiMo ha preferito focalizzarsi sull'implementazione di una piattaforma Linux tangibile, fondata su una base di codice condivisa, LiPS si è limitata a creare delle specifiche standard "astratte", lasciando poi alle singole aziende il compito di tramutarle in codice e implementarle all'interno dei propri prodotti.

Il tempo ha dato ragione alla più pragmatica filosofia di LiMo: l'industria ha infatti fretta di capitalizzare gli investimenti fin qui effettuati nell'open source, e preferisce avere una piattaforma già pronta all'uso piuttosto che un puzzle di specifiche standard. Gli osservatori del settore sono per altro convinti che la piattaforma LiMo, pur senza basarsi su uno standard de iure, ha tutte le chance per diventare uno standard de facto in tempi relativamente brevi.

Fonte: punto-informatico

I don't just ration tears because I am scared of the emotion that engulfs me, since I was very young I have limited the amount of emotion I show. It all started with the idea that if you smile and laugh everyday how will people know which day is your happiest yet, how can you make a distinction between average days and exceedingly good days. People used to tell me to smile more as it makes the world a happier place and brightens up a room but I used to answer that I smile for myself and not for the joy of other people. Since then this rule had been applied to most areas of my life. If you cry all the time and t everything people will stop comforting you, if you are seen to be crying over spilt milk people will view you as weak. I want to be thought of as a strong person, someone who never cries. Someone like my father who I have never seen cry, due to this I cannot cry in front of other people.

The theory goes that if I tell everyone all the time that today is a bad day and I do it everyday how can you distinguish which days are worse from the others. Then when you are left having such a bad day that you cannot cope by yourself how can they tell this bad day is any worse than the day before, I suppose it s like the boy who cried wolf analogy. If every time I saw my psychiatrist I said that I have thought about suicide, it would get very dull for both sides, the information would be as worthless to him as if I had reported that my fingerprint was the same or that my eves were still green. However, if I only tell him when I need or want extra help then it's a useful piece of information. While I may have had thought that I would like to die, I am not at risk so there is little point in telling anyone, but the trick is telling someone at the right time; before you are so serious that you cannot tell anyone because you do not want to be stopped but after it is just fleeting thoughts. This might be a risky strategy it might go desperately wrong but you cannot blame anyone else but yourself as you are responsible for the decisions you make. I suppose I know that if I ever do kill myself it will be the only choice i have left, suicide is never your plan A, it's the plan X that you take when everything else has been tried, "People with depression don't kill themselves to frighten an errant boyfriend. They kill themselves because it is the obvious and right thing to do at that point. It is the only positive step they can think of."- Dr Kay McKallan writing in the British Medical Journal. Unlike usual I have become sidetracked, really suicide deserves a whole post of its own.

Last line...

I have my dress at last, and my leavers ball is on Monday evening so that's a weight off my mind. I hope I look formal enough though s most of my friends have full length dresses and we are going full out (a rather naff streached limo, but I have never been in one before so it will be an experience) with a pre and post party.

"Looks like there's only room for one mobile Linux standards body in these here parts, and LiMo's recent momentum and partnership deals have apparently swept up the members of the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) -- the two groups just announced that as of July, LiPS will be folded into LiMo", reports Engadget. This piece of news, with the recent Nokia/Symbian news too, prompted me to write this opinion piece that I had on the back of mind for a while now, where I offer an analogy as to how today's smartphone OSes compare to the 1985 personal computer OS climate and where does this may lead.

Two days ago Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, made a very different statement when they made a move to buy up the remaining ownership in the smartphone software maker Symbian. If the $410 million deal goes through, Nokia will retain 47.9% majority ownership of Symbian. This move by Nokia indicates concern for those lower-cost mobile phone operating systems from Google Android & the LiMo Foundation.

With the mobile market heating up & businesses moving quickly to develop mobile applications it is key for Nokia to be running an OS which is widely accepted by the development community. Today, Symbian is used in two-thirds of smartphones being sold. Symbian's closest rival is Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS, which has just 13% of the market. Of course, both Apple & Google plan to gain a piece of this market very quickly. Apple has been making a lot of noise with its new software release for the 3G iPhone & although rumored to be behind Google is sure to gain a significant piece of this market when its Android software is released.

The good news for application developers & businesses is that we'll have options when deciding which devices & operating systems we want to develop applications for. Because of the increased competition in this market both device & OS manufactures will be more likely to bend & do more to ensure we are using their solution & not their competitors.

Symbian: Symbian was a company which until now designed operating systems for mobile devices. The Os was largely proprietary meaning that no one else could use it without the permission of the Symbian consortium. Yes, the Symbian consortium (Symbian Ltd.) was established on June 24 1998 as a partnership project between the big bosses of the mobile space Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and Psion, to exploit the convergence between the PDA's and the Mobile Phones. Soon other players joined the consortium like LG electronics, Samsung, Panasonic, and NTT DoCoMo. 

What was the aim of the Symbian consortium? The Symbian consortium aimed at developing a unified closed source OS which the members could use with some modifications pertaining to the user interfaces and development of device drivers for proprietary hardware boards. The organizations joining the consortium after paying a particular license fees which would entitle them under the Eclipse License and they could use the OS.

Market: Symbian OS is the leading OS in the 'smart mobile device' market. Statistics published February 2007 showed that Symbian OS had a 67% share of the 'smart mobile device' market, with Microsoft having 13% through Windows CE and Windows Mobile and RIM having 10%. Other competitors include Palm OS, iPhone OS, Qualcomm's BREW, Google Android and SavaJe.

Current Trends and the OS (open sourcing) of OS's (operating systems): Over the years Nokia has been the leading mobile phone manufacturer in the world. Infact every 4 out of the 10 phones sold in the world is a Nokia. But the general trend over the years in the Smartphone market has been shifting to a more ready to market device. This has led to the focus on software development for the Smartphone's. However the developer community was not too happy. Despite the software being licensed out the developers had tough time adapting themselves to different user interfaces wherein Symbian has long served as the underpinnings for several palmtop interfaces, including Nokia's own S60, Sony Ericsson's UIQ, and NTT/DoCoMo's MOAP (Mobile Oriented Applications Platform). These varying user interfaces were a problem. This is where the developer's started shifting to the open source movements like LiMo (Linux Mobile) and then Google came out with Android. The Symbian Foundation will unify those user interfaces, which will likely make application development easier and more consistent across a wide range of phones. This is exactly what Google wants to do with Android: unify the mobile Linux community behind a consistent interface that's compatible across a wide variety of phones and available under an open-source license. According to sources at Nokia, code will be released to the public for the first time in either the last quarter of 2008 or the first quarter of 2009. All of Symbian OS and its development tools will be made available by 2010. At this time, Nokia and its Symbian Foundation allies plans on releasing the program under the Eclipse Public License 1.0. In short, Symbian and its major interfaces are well on their way to becoming a completely open source operating system and development platform. This spells potential trouble for Linux embedded systems. Google, faced with delays in its own Linux-based Android platform, made the best of things in its response to Nokia's news. A representative for Sean Carlson, Google's manager of global communications, said, "Openness fosters innovation, benefiting consumers. We're very pleased to see other major players in the mobile industry moving in this direction."

Winners and Losers: 

1. Apple can be seen sailing through the Smartphone market through innovation. It has already created a niche market for itself through technical prowess. So it is highly unlikely that its proprietary software policy will affect the sales. It can continue to innovate and attract new customers. Thus Apple is going to remain largely unaffected by this deal.

2.  Symbian is been running on 60% of the mobile phones worldwide courtesy Nokia and since majority of Nokia's phones run Symbian it's obvious that Nokia does not want to lose out in the race and wants to be the market leader and develop Symbian to match the other upcoming competitors like android and the Limo. Moreover unifying the various platforms and open sourcing is going to make the developer community stick to Symbian Os and help in fostering innovation and better software for Nokia users. The developer community which was being wooed by the Open source Linux Mobile community and the Google's fully open sourced Android are now going to stick to Symbian. Thus Nokia clearly emerges as the winner out of this deal. It is going to lose out on some revenues though the licensing but it is going to earn through other means like lower development costs and faster innovation.

3.  Google and the Linux community which share the same ideology will be losing out due to increased competition and largely because the LiMo is still very unorganized, compared to symbian which has a dedicated developer pool working towards a concerted goal. It is still Even-Stevens for them.

4.  The odd man out remains to be Microsoft and the Canadian based Research In Motion (RIM). They have for long been closed source and charging high amount of licensing fees. Microsoft's share of 15% is sure to decline. Because unlike earlier the price to develop and time to market mobile software and Os is going to come down drastically with the opening up of Symbian and presence of other open source players like Google and LiMo. These have already brought down the cost to almost nil. So obviously companies are going to stick with Nokia-Symbian which would provide a cheaper solution and support than MS or RIM. So Microsoft Corporation clearly stands out to lose and will have to come out quickly to maintain its declining market share.

Thus Nokia-Symbian symbiotic existence and opening up is not only going to help the developers world around to innovate further without worrying about the platform and licenses, improve the time to develop and finally help bring down the prices . This will ultimately bring down the price of the mobile phones and the ultimate winner will be the end user.

Fiara mihaja "limousine" mainty maro milahatra eo anoloan'ny Hôtely "raitra dia raitra" |

Cortège de limousines noire devant un Hôtel de luxe |

Procession of black limousines in front of luxury Hotel |

© tomavana | euro 2008 |
[Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues, Genève]

First question: why are they doing this? According to ABI Research vice president Stuart Carlaw: "There has been financial pressure on Nokia to move in this direction at some point. The sheer economics of the number of devices it ships with the OS versus the value it gets out of its historic shareholding clearly indicated that such a `rescue' was inevitable at some point."

The second question of course is: How open will the platform be? "Perhaps this is an admission that the pressure from the Linux industry is really forcing Nokia and Symbian to change their game," adds Carlaw. "Questions remain as to whether the solution will be truly open and what the cost of a Symbian Foundation membership will be."

ABI research director Kevin Burden believes Nokia may still maintain a proprietary operating system for high-end mobile devices. "It's very possible that Nokia will eventually position the Symbian platform for mid-tier devices with another platform powering its high-end devices - a position that Sony Ericsson has already taken," says Burden.

Om Malik has a good post on what it means. My bottom line is that there is clearly going to be a war to dominate the open wireless platform. And it's probably going to take a few years for all of this to settle out. In the meantime, innovation will flourish but not as much as if the industry had already decided upon a single open platform. Get ready for the next standards war featuring Android by Google, Symbian by the Symbian Foundation, Blackberry by RIMM, OS X by Apple, Windows Mobile by Microsoft and the LiMo by the LiMo Foundation. It's enough to make your head spin!!!

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Bliss, I found, is something to be earned.

As usual, I called Carmel Limo to take me to JFK airport. I always use Carmel. Generally, they’re pretty good. The driver I had today was awful. Carmel usually shows up annoyingly early. This guy was annoyingly late. Then, to avoid traffic, he lengthened the trip by taking me through Woodhaven and Jamaica, in Queens. It took forever. And, he was a shitty driver … by my standards, which are not high.

It’s all fine now. I’m on the balcony outside my absurdly beautiful and comfortable hotel room. But, the ride sucked.

minilimo

 monsterlimo

A corvette stingmo

Ferrari limo

 bikemo

A Boeing limo

World's longest limo

one horsepower limo