This evening I found iTunes U and I have to say that it seems to be a great idea. Unfortunately I don't have a long commute to work, but can walk from home to the office in less than 5 minutes.

Hopefully it's true. I would really love to use such a tablet for reading documents, news feeds and all the other things for which a real laptop is a bit too heavy to hold for a long time.

Over the weekend, Smarthouse reported that Apple had built a tablet PC prototype that was being costed out by several Taiwanese companies.

(The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) in Rumors: Apple Tablet)

This sounds about true:

[..] Web 2.0 is nothing more than an aftermarket for Google. Startups slicing little bits of Google's P/E ratio, acting as sales reps for Google ads, and getting great multiples for the revenue they generate by fostering the creation of new UGC to place ads on.

(Dave Winer in Scripting News: 11/28/2006)

There is so much else skilled developers can do instead of trying to create one more me-too web property, yet another web framework or yet another "solution" for developing the software for web properties faster than ever before. In the long run only solid things prevail. But I guess the outlook of getting rich quick is the most attractive element of any gold rush.

Yesterday I wrote about the sounds of marching music that we were forced to listen to at around 8:30 pm. We didn't know what to expect by the crack of dawn. Around 3 am we woke up to the heavy sound of marching music and couldn't believe it.

The explanation given to us later by Antonio is that this is a local tradition called "las dianas". The music is played by firefighters.