Pandora blocked – Opportunity for a local operator?

Who’d have guessed the lid would be closed on the Pandora’s box. This is a SAD, SAD thing.

Pandora Internet Radio
We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for most listeners located outside of the U.S. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.

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Post-transit


After a week long trip to the United States, including four red-eye flights, only two nights staying over in hotels, each night being a different hotel, working the exhibition traffic at a premiere high tech advertising conference, I’m back. The trip also included a few client meetings, a conference call with me and Mo hovering over a mobile phone in an abandoned cafeteria next door to the exhibition hall in full-blown construction mode and the accompanying noise.

One of my favorite moments was sitting on an ottoman in the lobby of the Bank of America in the Empire State Building implementing an intermediary tracking script for a foreign currency trading site. Fringe benefits of working for ForgeBusiness :-) Perhaps Kev is right in saying that enjoying that kind of thing makes me something of a wanabe – me – I just think its kewl enjoying the little poetic ironies in life as much as possible.

I came back with 250 photographs and I’ll probably post a few of my favorites here over the next while.

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