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Say you have shelled out some $30 for the DVD LOTR Two Towers and you want to loan out that DVD to your neighbour. Wouldn’t you be mad when they return it with scratches on it? I rent a lot of DVD’s and when you get them they look like crap. It is as if people use them as a frisbee or a coaster or let their dog chew on it. That’s the reason I just make a bakcup of my DVD’s and give the copy to whoever wants to see it. That way I make sure my DVD’s stay […]

People who have read my Blog before, know that I have a very nice Apple Macintosh Powerbook G4 from my work. I had a choice between a regular laptop or the slick and sleek G4 – running OSX which is basically a Unix flavor OS. Well, for a technology freek like me that was a clear cut choice. I got the Mac. I have been a real fan of OSX from day 1. It is by far the best OS in terms of stability for a laptop I have seen so far. I have run many different OS systems from […]

Talk about viral marketing! Recently a friend of mine told me to check out some new software that makes it possible to make VoIP calls (VoIP = Voice over IP) to anyone on the internet. Now, this has been around for years already but usually its a big hassle to set it up especially if you have a firewall our router. Without getting to technical; VOIP (which is also possible with MSN Messenger, Netmeeting etc.) uses so called port numbers to communicate (a port is an endpoint to a logical connection and the way a client program specifies a specific […]

CNN reports this morning that261 music file swappers are sued but also that an amnesty program has been unveiled. The federal lawsuits and amnesty program are the latest moves by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in its fight against illegal music file trading on the Internet. According to them filesharing is responsible for a 31 percent drop in compact disc sales since mid-2000. So what do you do? First they tried to put the companies out of business that were making programs to share (like Napster). They did succeed in that; most filesharing sites were using a central […]

This weekend I almost bought a MP3 player: the iRiver iHP-100. This neat little machine at first seemed some good competition for the Apple iPod. It is very nice looking and has some interesting features. For instance it has built-in radio, 16 hours playtime (or so they claim), optical in and output and you can record with it. It also supports most current formats including WMA. They sell it here at the local Media Markt for about 475 Euro. It seemed a good deal. But now there is the brand new Apple iPod in 10-20 and a whopping 40 Gig!! […]

Want to listen to streaming audio? Do you like lounge, triphop, downtempo fuzed jazz and other music? Then check out SomaFM, it is listener supported, commercial free Internet Radio. I listen to it at work, at home and about everywhere else where I have internet. I really love Internet radio. You can listen to it almost anywhere (if you have internet) and the cool thing is that there are so many channels out there that are “special interest” which means a lot of so-called “non-mainstream” music. One of my other favourites used to be Massinova but they are offline now […]

This morning I had a close encounter with a real life bloodsucker and it nearly gave me a heartattack! Want to know what happened? Ok, I was in my study editing some video that I shot way back in ’97 when I first visited my girlfriend Carrie in Florida. I was just making some nice scene cuts and adding a few effects, when I noticed the noise coming from my guest bedroom. It seemed as if my cats were tearing up the place or – which sounded the most logically – they were fighting each other. So I yelled a […]

Mondays really fuck up my life (pardon my French). I get up in the morning, slowly forcing my body to actually move to the bathroom. Looking back at me on the other side of the mirror, I see some freak with small eyes, exploded hair, yawning like I’m trying to get a new world record. O yeah, it’s Monday alright. Monday tells you 2 things: A. Your weekend is over B. Work, Work WORK! A typical Monday for me looks a bit like this: 7:45am – Starting up movement-coordination brain cells 8:05am – Starting shaving feature (trying not to bleed […]

CNN.com reports: Texan, 91, arrested for bank robbery – Aug. 14, 2003. I guess you are never too old to be a fool. Apparantly it wasn’t the first time he did a robbery: Rountree left a prison in Florida, where he was the oldest prisoner in the state, about a year ago after serving a three-year sentence imposed on him for a 1999 bank robbery in Pensacola. He was caught holding up a bank in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1998 when he was 87, and given three years’ probation. Police said he always used the same tactic — walking unarmed into […]

Recently I bought a T-shirt from Think Geek (“I see Fragged People”), but now they added a new new one that is kinda funny: ThinkGeek: I’m blogging this. Put the world on notice: I’m blogging this 🙂