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All good things must come to an end
Well, for the month at least. I hit my Launchcast quota for the month – 400 songs later I’ve been downgraded to mediocre quality streaming and no skips. Those are like the most annoying things someone could do to an internet radio service, and I suppose it would probably be effective in converting freeloaders like me into paid subscribers. Of all the paid services out there in internetworld, I’ve considered quite a few seriously.

• Increased email storage and stationery – Available with Y! Mail Plus. Thankfully I held out, and now with announcements that Y! will increase email storage to free subscribers “this summer”, it’s one less thing I’m going to be worrying about.
• My personal domain – The reality was that there was no good publishing system at the time for that to have been a real prospect for me. Add to that the fact that I had really no purpose.
• Web Hosting – This was a consequence of my personal domain, but ironically, I eventually purchased my hosting from a reseller so I could add pictures to this blog.
• Enhanced Blog features – I think being able to send an email to update your blog, or send an mms to your blog are too cool. Unfortunately, I am not willing to pay for features like this. Not now at least.
• Launchcast – Not being able to skip songs, and the low quality music stream is really annoying. But I figure I’ll just rely on the TV on till the end of the month.

The toothbrush revolution
I love the electric toothbrush (ET). My first ET was a Philips Jordan rechargeable toothbrush my brother got me for Christmas probably sometime 1998. Between then and now, I’ve had 3 Brauns, 1 Colgate and 1 Oral B.

The Oral B Cross Action Toothbrush

My favourite is the Oral B Cross Action ET. It’s light, takes 1 AA battery (great if you use rechargeable batteries – so there’s no downtime while the toothbrush is charging) and the brush head is quite effective. I can’t say if it’s really the cross action working, but I think it certainly does more revs per minute.

KF and I saw it at the supermarkets sometime early this year. It cost slightly less than S$20. What put us off though, were the brush heads, which cost $20 for 2. It’s usually 3 for the same price. Yeah, cross action and all, but it was expensive.

Well, when I was in San Francisco – I saw the Oral B Cross Action ET again – this time for US$5.99. Brush heads were the same price. So I bought a set, and a bunch of brushheads.

Couple of days ago, we saw the same toothbrush in Watson’s and Cold Storage. Now it costs S$25.