Many touching memories and comments about the journalist and translator Khalid Hassan who worked for the new york times in baghdad. This story was featured on the front page of the new york times online, with texts from his co-workers and many thoughtful comments by readers. For a  bird’s eye view of the events look into this article.

One major gripe with the iphone was that it isn’t easy to skip a track. ok, let’s back up for a second: you walk down the street and this thing replaced your music player. So far so good. Less stuff to carry around. On comes this ‘parappa the rappa’ song with the rapping chicken trying to teach you how to drive… and at one point in your life this song might have been funny, but now it’s just not ((maybe because you are in a chicken factory) The froggy flee market sale song will always be hot!).
A purist could say that this is a lesson to be less promiscuous with ones’ iTunes library.

…ah, screw those nihilists and just double-press® the clicker on your right earbud and skip the dammed track.

somehow I just did it out of intuition, i probably lived with too many apple (computer), inc products for too long. So if you find this tip useful, please let us know what track you were trying to skip and we’ll feel for you.