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I’m sure that by now you all already read the elaborated “thought” that Steve Jobs published more than 2 weeks ago called Thoughts on Music. When I did read it I immediately thought on my iPod usage habits and those of the rest of iPod owners.

Ever since I bought my 4 GB iPod Nano I’ve been filling it with podcasts exclusively (all are free). The only time it had music was when the one I bought failed too bad (after 3 months it was just looping and wasn’t recoverable, but that’s for another post) that they had to give me another one, yep, it has a different serial number than the first one. So they gave me the “new” (not sure if it was really new or not) iPod filled already with a bunch of songs, I just listened to a couple not in their entirety to be sure the iPod worked correctly and that same day I reloaded the podcasts.

So far I guess I’ve gone through several gigabytes of podcasts, a lot of gigabytes. How many out there do the same? I think the percentages mentioned in the article may change a bit because not everything that an iPod (actually iTunes) sees as an mp3 is copyrighted music.

Give it a thought and form your own opinion.

Although I haven’t reviewed Omea Reader in my blog yet I just wanted to create this quick post to mention that there was a new update for Omea Reader rolled out in past days, it’s version 2.2. I really recommend it. Or perhaps you can try Omea Pro which by the way is now a free download since December 4, 2006.

The issue I’m seeing with this update and that perhaps talks about the not so thoughtful inner workings of it is that after installing this 2.2 update over the previous one (can’t remember if it was 2.1.1 or just 2.1) the index is being rebuilt completely. You may say that that’s fine but when having almost 180,000 documents on it then you may realize that’s not the best thing to do. Omea Reader has been consuming a lot of CPU for several hours now and it has just indexed half of the documents.

Oh yes! The Thinkpad is so hot and I can’t work because it’s sloooooow!

Anyways, this tool is good so that a one day annoyance can be accepted, or maybe not.

I haven’t had time to post things in here so I’ll just point out you to a couple of interesting posts that I’m sure you’ll like. One is on Luis‘ blog and the other on James‘ blog.

They are: Social Computing at IBM - By Ben Edwards and James Snell and Just letting it happen.