After several years, while listening to salsa music, my iTunes shuffle mode was kind enough to bring up a very classic song "Contra La Corriente" by Marc Anthony. This song, and album, was definitely one of the things that got me truly addicted to salsa music. After I had started dancing salsa for a few months in Ames, Iowa, I remember playing this album over gazillion times in my dorm room in college at Iowa State University - which was a stark contrast to the Alternative/Rock music every other person played in their room.

Since it brought so many salsa memories, I thought I'd recommend it to new salsa enthusiasts that may not know this famous song or album. I think it was this album that really defined Marc Anthony as a great salsa artist. 

Here is a video of Marc Anthony performing Live the song. I'm not sure why he's dressed like Neo from "The Matrix".

Once again, brilliant advertising by Apple. Their advertising message has definitely changed. They are doing what Don Draper from Mad Men suggested: instead of going head to head on product message, change the conversation. In this "Now" ad, there is no talk about multi-core processors, 4G, tethering, memory, removable battery and "openness". Simply explaining the new use cases that are possible that "may" improve your life is clear enough to help sell it. 

This is probably one of the best advertising spots from Google in a long time. The best advertising messages show not the product, but their purpose. 

Great article by Nilay Patel on the Apple vs Samsung patent infringement. Even if you don't follow tech, reading the article will teach you a lot about "trade dress" infringement, which ends up being a very common issue in the world of products.

After actually seeing the phone and the claims, I'm trying to understand: If Android is truly open to modification, why isn't there a plurality of innovative user interfaces? Palm Pre did it. Windows 7 did it. BlackBerry did it. In this case, Samsung with TouchWiz didn't. There is more than one way to skin a cat (a.k.a phone interface)

Went skydiving to get over my fear of heights for my 30th birthday. You Only Live Twice (1967)

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After rewriting the new Pocket Salsa foundation, got the main grid view up with the AirPlay compatible media playback on the iPad. What do you think, keep the grid?

The best way to use the front facing camera on the new iPad 2. I'm trying to think how I can use something like this to help people learn about foot placements or finding the beat.