I was surfing the net today and ran across a rather interesting Finnish a cappella group called Rajaton (translation -- Boundless).  I don’t know Finnish but many of their songs are in English and for me English, Finnish, Italian, German… whatever it doesn’t really matter much if the music is good and pleasant to my ear.

One of my favorites from YouTube and last.fm is We Walk in a Fog… It has an interesting lyric to think about -- perhaps wedding music -- and the a cappella is nice, smooth, and just plain ol’ pleasant to listen to.

We Walk in a Fog

We walk in a fog that forever surrounds us
and hark to the sounds of the moonlit nights
We tread on a treacherous moss that confounds us
and darkness of dusk human hearts does blight.

But two lonely hearts when join in singing
and calling each other in night’s confine,
two shadows entwining and lovingly clinging -
oh wouldn’t, oh wouldn’t that be divine!

This is the version I found on YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=14VVW-QiXbM

I also found it on last.fm (this is from the album and much more professional) -- http://www.last.fm/music/Rajaton/_/We+Walk+In+A+Fog

I absolutely love Gmail… Over the years it has become my collection point for all of my email accounts.   I forward anything and everything personal to that account and use it to archive the things I want to keep.  When I was not able to log in for a couple of hours it had me asking myself a couple of questions… First – should I be putting all of my eggs in one basket?  I don’t suspect that Google will be going away any time soon but at the same time I also can’t help but wonder what I would do if a 2 hour outage turned into 12 hours or 18 hours or days?  The second question – Does it really matter?  I should probably just consider it Google’s way of giving me a break from the increasingly awful thing called email.  My email free Monday afternoon.   Many companies and individuals are subscribing to the email free days… I think I need to break into it a few hours at a time…  Thanks Google for reminding me to try it again.

Google did post a blog article that you can find here. They called it We Feel Your Pain and We’re Sorry.  I’m not quite sure HOW they felt my pain but I took comfort in knowing that they apologized and they are using it as a learning experience.