Spending more time on Quora/Techcrunch/VentureBeat than Netflix

It seems Netflix content has become boring. I was the cord cutter as soon as my son was born, for first 2 years I didnt had TV and for local news I had an indoor antenna http://www.amazon.com/Amplified-High-Definition-Antenna-Off-Air-Reception/dp/B0007MXZB2/


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Now a days it seems the only person watching netflix in house is my son. My wife watches mostly indian soap operas posted on youtube.

As for me for past 3-4 months the time spent on netflix has died down drastically in evenings and I am spending more time on Quora/Techcrunch/VentureBeat. It seems netflix content has become boring or I have seen most of it. I am a big fan of chinese war dramas http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Red-Cliff-Theatrical-Version/70130851 and lately only once in a blue moon a new one would arrive.

I got the same impression from other friends that netflix content has started to fade and even hulu or redbox has same issue. Only time will tell that are we entering into an era where people are moving away from TV content or am I just an anomaly?

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RabbitMQ java clients for beginners

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For more information on AMQP, Exchanges, Queues, read this excellent tutorial
http://blogs.digitar.com/jjww/2009/01/rabbits-and-warrens/

+++++++++++++++++RabbitMQProducer.java+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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