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LOL, ROFL, LMFAO and all that! I have been a major fan of ThinkGeek and even more since I bought my “I see Fragged People” T-shirt there, got the “No, I won’t fix your computer” T-shirt from my girlfriend, together with the retro-LED watch (for Xmas). I mean: they sell THE BEST and the most USELESS gadgets you can think off. But these one really cracked me up big time: “It’s Amaaaazing!! Mike!” Buzzaire – Metered Dose Caffeine Inhaler Next best thing to an IV 😉 Here at ThinkGeek, we’ve done our best to find new and advanced ways to […]

Who needs deodorant? Are you a man who drinks cocktails? With a little umbrella? Shaken, not stirred? Do you use facial cream? Do you have a perm? Are you trying your best to live up to the expectations of women by being a ‘metrosexual’ ? Aww man, you’re wipped! Forget about shaving your chest, legs and waxing your back or using deodorant. It is time again to let those old genes from our ancestors flow through our veins again and throw off the pretence of being civilized. We all know what we want and need! Yes, we want to run […]

Charlie Foxtrot – Roger! In millitary terms a ‘CF’ – aka Charlie Foxtrot – aka ‘clusterfuck’ is a disastrous situation that results from the cumulative errors of several people or groups. If there is one case where this word is appropriate, I would say it is the Ahold court case. In short: Ahold is one of the world’s largest supermarket operators and one of the world’s largest foodservice and retail companies. In 2003 Ahold suddenly got into financial troubles because of fraud within its US Foodservice subsidiary. After an investigation it turned out there were more troubles and this made […]

USR PP 5000 I could not believe it, but apparantly the mother of all cool organizers – the US Robotics Palm Pilot – has been around for 10 years! Off those 10 years I have been a Palm user for 7 years. The first one I ever bought was a ’97 US Robotics Palm Pilot 5000. To me it was actually the start of my gadget addiction. The 5000 series originally shipped with a whopping 512kb of memory. Like all Palm Pilots it had the annoying habbit that you lost every bit of information the moment your batteries were drained. […]

Hostage situation I am surround by idiots. Last night I went to pick up a new batch of contact lenses at my local optician (I have those lenses that I change monthly and I always get a 6 month supply). The store where I get them, has been taken over by some big European optician company and ever since, the service has gone downhill. For instance: they used to automatically re-order my lenses and then either call me or send me a card telling me they were ready for me to pick ‘m up. Well, that changed where I have […]

S.O.S. ! Ok, last night I found out my NAS seemed to have garbled the complete contents of my harddisk. After doing some research I concluded that the data should still be on the disk. However, it seemed that I can not restore the data – even after hooking it up to my Ubuntu Linux box. So I searched for some recovery tool, and I have stumbled upon a tool from Stellar Phoenix hard drive data recovery tools, called Stellar Phoenix Linux. I downloaded the trial, installed it and hooked up the disk. After a scan it shows what I […]

Sinking ship? Is my Network Attached Storage a sinking ship? It sure has proven not to be reliable. About a year ago I bought a Linksys NSLU2 that turns my Maxtor OneTouch 250gb external harddrive into a NAS (network attachted storage). Besides the downsides (it is only USB 1.1 and you have to format the disk since the Linksys uses Ext/3), it now proved a major source for data loss! From time to time it seemed that files I had copied to the disc weeks before had gone or just didn’t exist there anymore. I kind of ignored the problem […]

Civil war Today marks a black page in history: the three year anniversary of the war in Iraq. Even though Bush knows better, he still tries to paint a picture of success. It is rather insulting: the country has been plunged into a civil war but the Bush administration says it is not. However; former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi says recent sectarian violence is a sure sign of a nation at war with itself. The United States claimed that Iraq illegally possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1441 and had to be disarmed by […]

Click me Time for a little round-up from my CeBIT 2006 visit. Even thought the CeBIT 2006 had 6,262 exhibitors, including over 3,300 from abroad and around 450,000 visitors, I did not see anything really ‘new and exiting’. In fact it was a bit of a dissapointment for me. I had expected that there would be more new gadgets and cool new inventions, but as it turned out it was rather dull. Sure, there were enough new and exiting HD-TV LCD screens, but that is just evolution, not revolution.I did see a few kewl things though and I like to […]

About 1 minute after I published my story about XP in the Dual Core iMac, I checked the official website that was hosting the contest, and now it says it has been confirmed: Latest Update Contest has been won – updates to follow shortly. All further donations will go into an account to sustain the open source project that will be launched with the initial solution. So probably Narf2006 did it! Now: I can’t wait to read HOW he did it (and with me probably thousands of others).