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Coldplay is giving away a free download of their song Violet Hill for this week only. It’s pretty cool. At first listen it wasn’t my favorite but now I’m falling for it. Up there among my favorites (God Put A Smile & Rush of Blood).

Was a long and dark December
From the rooftops I remember
There was snow
White snow

Clearly I remember
From the windows they were watching
While we froze down below

When the future’s architectured
By a carnival of idiots on show
You’d better lie low

If you love me
Won’t you let me know?

Was a long and dark December
When the banks became cathedrals
And the fog
Became God

Priests clutched onto bibles
Hollowed out to fit their rifles
And the cross was held aloft

Bury me in armor
When I’m dead and hit the ground
My love’s like _____*
But I’m froze

If you love me
Won’t you let me know?

I don’t wanna be a soldier
the captain of some stinkin ship
would stow far below

So, If you love me
Why’d you let me go?

I took my love down to Violet Hill
There we sat in the snow.
All that time she was silent still.

So, If you love me
Won’t you let me know?
So, If you love me
Won’t you let me know?

You can download a free copy at Coldplay.com/Song.html this week only. :)

*Can’t understand that word; anyone else catch what he said?

I was checking my email this morning and I recieved an email through my contact form on Skyefairy, inviting me to be an advertising affiliate or re-seller for the Ectaco JetBook. The immediate word that popped into my head: SPAM. However, I then re-noticed that it came through my contact form, which has anti-robot protection. Basically, the sender was not a bot. More things to proove this are the facts that everything was filled out correctly in Name, Email, and Subject. Before I had the bot protection, when I got spam, they never were. The only thing wrong was that the addressed the email “Dear Sirs” both wrong in gender and plurality.

So, I did some research. This product is real. It is an e-book reader that is a competitor of the Amazon Kindle. The company Ectaco is based in New York City and the email is supposedly from Ann Smith (generic name, eh), the Internet Group Account Executive based in NYC.

So, I did more research. I googled the IP address that the contact form logged. Nothing of interest showed. So I checked my tracker to see if that IP showed up. It did, making 4 repeat visits today between 5am and 6am. NYC is the same timezone as I am, so my next question was: who in their right mind would already be at work that early in the morning? So I scrolled down to see where the IP connects to based on country: Russia. Hmm. Ann Smith from NYC sending an email to me at 5am from Russia..? Doesn’t add up.

But that still leaves the unanswered question: Why are they sending these emails out by hand and not by robot?

And is it really Ectaco or some other spammer (the links sent were accurate as if directly from the company)? Is Ectaco doing THAT bad against Amazon?

Happy Birthday, Shadow!!! Only one more year left as a teenager ~.o

Sooner or Later, Fake It Over and Over. I can’t wait until March 5th: Breaking Benjamin, Seether, and Three Days Grace in concert. *listens to their songs over and over*