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Lately, I have been pondering the ways of current communication. It occurred to me that with the modern age of cyberspace that so much emotion has gotten lost in translation.

So after being without my home computer for a week, I was stuck at home on my day off with cell phone as my only source to the outside world with work awaiting me.

It was time to let my fingers to the typing or texting as this case may be, but this time it got me into trouble.
I committed the fateful, yet, not uncommon error. Yes, I was guilty.

I blame computers.

This year my parents did me a solid by getting me the coveted iPod Touch! I really needed a portable music player and, as we all know, Apple media items are always the best.

Sure, I already have an iPod. It's a first gen iPod Video. Killer in 2005: "A portable mp3 device that plays video?! The impossible is possible!" And it was, undoubtedly, great. The problem was not with the product, but me. I was a very clumsy 18 year old when I got it.

Needless to say, my iVideo has seen better days. Here's the poor thing, today (modeled by our lovely sports writer, Cindy Roller) :

This is funny. So Microsoft has a Twitter roll on the home page of their Windows 7 website. The idea is that there is a constant roll of supposedly glowing compliments about their new operating system. I was watching the roll when the following Tweet went through: