kiss online radio goodbye, courtesy the Royalty Rates Crisis

Pandora, that piece of Internet magic that you can could ‘train’ to feed you new music is allready no-longer available in South Africa. They’ve also had to cut their streaming to Canada. I see you can still log into Pandora Backstage to browse and research artists and albums, but… it is terribly mute.

Dunno if you noticed the comment by Tim Westergren – the founder of Pandora – on my previous post on this topic. (Sadest ego boost I’ve experienced in a long time). It’s hectic.

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Easily add different links (e.g. Muti) to Bookmark Me Plugin for WordPress

Get the Semiologic Bookmark Me plugin for WordPress, install as per instructions and check that it works.

Open the sem-bookmark-me.php file and admire the neat code – no seriously – one look at the code told me we could do this without breaking a sweat or your blog for that matter.

(If you don’t have Dreamweaver or some other web editor or ftp job installed, in the WordPress admin area go : Manage >> Files, scoll down to the ‘Other Files’ block and enter ‘ wp-content/plugins/sem-bookmark-me/sem-bookmark-me.php’ in the text box provided and click ‘edit’. Make the changes described below and click ‘Update File’ to save it when you are done.)

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Discover the Enneagram

The enneagram is a remarkably usefull and stimulating system – provided one gets past the temptations of pigeonholing. My good friend Raymond offers this workshop. enneagram

The Enneagram is a map of self-discovery that helps people see themselves as they really are so that they can allow their best selves to break through. The personality types of the Enneagram identify the chief features of our inner landscape and maps a way that points to what lies beyond our personalities.

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