Glamour Shot: New Song

So the guys in the band and I have been writing and recording up a storm. We've got about six new songs under development, the first of which is called "The Contaminant," and has just been posted to the Glamour Shot MySpace Site. It's post-punk influenced music, so if you're interested in that sort of thing, please do check it out.

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Stagnation Nation: The State of Technology

It's 2008 and I'm bored. I've been sitting here for years, waiting patiently for some type of technology to be invented that might actually get me excited; that might possibly contribute something great and/or useful to the world, and I've seen absolutely nothing. It seems like all of the 'innovation' that we've been doing over the past couple of decades has simply consisted of refinement, rebranding, recomposition, and outright shit-polishing.

iPhone? That's not innovative. Neither are Web 2.0, Social Networking, Service Oriented Architectures, nor anything Google or the other big boys are developing. People tout these 'new technologies' as if they had actually required a brilliant mind to pull them out of thin air rather than having just been minor evolutions or refinements. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office actually grants patents to bullshit like this!

So my question is this:

Is there ANYONE doing anything innovative and interesting in the tech world?

If you are, PLEASE EMAIL ME (tom at this domain), because you're the company or person that I want to work with. I'm sick of writing the same code over and over again with minor variations. I'm sick of having to design systems that are nearly identical to the previous ones with only minor modifications based on customer requirements.

The kicker, of course: I doubt such a mythical beast exists, so back to work for me!

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