My initial enthousiasm for the iPhone 4 has faded within a week. Yes, once again Apple has lived up to it’s reputation of delivering bad crappy 1.0 products. No kidding: as long as I have been following Apple (basically since 2002) they have been delivering their new products with some sort of problem. So it’s no surprise that the beautiful iPhone 4 has problems as well. For starters the special glass casing (advertised as “…20 times stiffer and 30 times harder than plastic, the glass is ultradurable…”) seems to not nearly as scratch resistant as Steve Jobs wants us to […]
Home improvement Amazon.com style
If you ever ordered something from Amazon.com, or you have an account there, you know that Amazon likes to spam mail you with a lot “special deals” and such. Usually you receive them after you searched Amazon for something or just looked up a product or two. Anyway: the recommendations are usually spot on and do trigger users to buy more stuff (which is the whole idea off course). I think I heard somewhere it works automatically and somewhat along the lines of Google ads, that are triggered by your searches or – in Gmail – by keywords in your mail. This […]
Damn, I’m converted
Ok, <insert confession mode here> this is a big step for me, but I confess that I have been converted. I just saw the new iPhone 4 revealed by Apple CEO Steve Jobs as only he can do. It’s gorgeous – and – I want one. There, I said it. I want an iPhone. Finally iPhone is up to par – and now even trend setting – feature-wise – with other phones. They finally added multitasking (my phones did that 4 years ago already) and a front cam (both my Nokia E71 and HTC Diamond Pro have that already). But also a gyroscope, dual-mic […]
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated by the Orange Fever!
There is no escape. If you live in Holland you will get caught by the “Orange Fever” that currently sweeps our country. It happens every year on Queens Day, but even more so during any national or international sporting event that involves fellow Dutchmen. May it be soccer, cycling or – our national pride – skating. The phenomenon manifests itself very visually as people start wearing orange clothing, like T-shirts, hats, shawls etc.. Some people even paint their hair orange and decorate walls, rooms. Even whole houses and or the streets are adorned with orange beams. What most people do […]
The Machete conspiracy
Four days ago I posted the new trailer for the new upcoming Robert Rodriguez movie called “Machete”. What looks like a harmless all action packed movie, is actually a call to racial violence and uprising by the Mexican population in the state of Arizona. The movie is going to cause widespread violence and a race war! Yeah right. And Santa Claus really exists…. Who comes up with this shit? Enter the twisted and paranoid world of Alex Jones, maker of movies such as “911: Road to Tyranny“, “Martial Law 9-11: Rise of the Police State” and “Fall of the Republic: […]
I’ll pay to see this
I’ll pay to see this! It looks like so much fun! Machete is an upcoming action film, directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis. The film will star Danny Trejo in his first lead role as the title character. The film also stars Michelle Rodriguez, Cheech Marin, Lindsay Lohan, Don Johnson, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal, Robert DeNiro, Jeff Fahey, and Cheryl Chin. The film is an expansion of a fake trailer Rodriguez directed for the 2007 film Grindhouse and centers around the character of Machete Cortez, who previously appeared as the uncle of the protagonists in the Spy Kids films. […]
Navigate with The Force
This is just out: you too can now navigate the road that lies ahead using The Force 🙂 Beside the familiar voice of Darth Vader, TomTom wil also release the voices of C-3PO, Yoda and Han Solo. Man, I laughed my ass off watching the video 😉 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ljFfL-mL70
AC/DC vs Iron Man 2
This summer May, Iron Man 2 is coming out. I loved the first one and the second one looks like a killer action movie too. Especially because I got turned of by that wimp of a Peter Parker in the Spiderman movies. The Australian rock band AC/DC are doing some of the soundtrack for Iron Man 2 and by way of promotion, they gave this really cool light show in England. Well, actually more of a “projection show”. Aw, you’ll just have to watch the awesome video below. Amazing what you can do with technology and a creative mind. I […]
Summertime
Yes! Winter is officially over again! I have to admit: I always hate it that when we switch to DST (Daylight Saving Time): they steel an hour of my weekend. But on the other hand it’s always nice that it’s light longer in the evening. For about 2,5 weeks I have been waking up by the sound of the birds (and it’s not my Sunrise alarm clock). Thats a good sign: spring is coming and it’s coming fast. I hope it gets warmer soon, so I can have dinner in my backyard.
Steven Seagal: Lawman (2)
Last November I wrote about over-the-hill action star Steven Seagal (58 in April) getting his own reality show: Steven Seagal: Lawman on A&E. I downloaded some episodes for my own entertainment and concluded that it is a cop show with a minimum of action. Nevertheless: somehow the series premiere drew 3.6 million viewers, ranking as best season opener for any original A&E series ever. As I wrote, Seagal has been a deputy sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana for 20 years where he owns a second home. That must account for the fact that despite being born in Lansing, Michigan, has adopted […]