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so, spotify wants to be a platform like facebook, hah, not going to be that easy. and FB is planning its IPO for april 2012, should be a big one of course.

and as the shopping season continues to accelerate looks like the nook and the kindle fire are doing quite well.

tonight was the lighting of the rockefeller center tree, looks great like every year. between that, justin bieber singing at the tree, and president obama being in town, the city is a huge gridlock, traffic doesn't move at all in any direction . in fact, president obama was dining at Gotham Bar & Grill on 12th and 5th, just a couple minutes away from our place.

the weekend is over, a new week starts again. we had a great time, visited friends in CT yesterday, and went to the radio city music hall to see the christmas spectacular with the rockettes, and then had late lunch at the moma's Modern. we ended the evening at home. i have a few pictures that i will post when i get a chance.

Today was Black Friday, the big shopping day of the year. Ironically, I didn't buy anything. Or wait, I did buy a house warming gift but it had nothing to do with being Black Friday, we had to buy it regardless. The streets and stores looked packed, remains to be seen how much buying actually took place.

Got home from work just now, relaxing, listening to music, getting ready for dinner.

Yesterday I installed a second access point on my home network, I have now 4 SSIDs being broadcast, kind of crazy . but I think i successfully extended range to every corner of the house. Even the iPads seem to connect now

this was foretold, but just got the official notice that google's prior attempt at a social network - Google Wave - was shutting down.