Monthly Archive: February 2009

Feb
26

Quick review of Safari 4

Much to my surprise of having missed it, Apple released Safari 4 Beta to the people. Quickly installed it, checked it. Let me summarize: Cover Flow + Apple TV wall in a browser? That’s a FAIL. Also the 200 MB memory consumption (at least on Windows) should not go unnoticed. Ah, and one more thing… …

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Feb
24

Dear Mr. President, …

Every day President Barack Obama is handed a special purple folder. The folder contains ten letters, and every day President Obama takes time to read them. Are they from world leaders? From members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Members of the intelligence community? No, these letters have been culled from the thousands the White …

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Feb
20

Homunculus Project

In ancient times, the holy-grail of alchemy was the creation of a Homunculus – a servant or lifeform, artifically created – man-made life. Now, scientists believe we’ll create life within the next ten years. Homunculus, a shadowy, mysterious figure with supernatural powers – one core character in the game “Shadow Of Memories”. At one stage …

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Feb
20

FAIL #8 – but this time, it's O2

No photo this time. But a real-life satire, which is a true fail. So what I didn’t blog about is that my iPhone 3G did, in fact, break. Long story short: I was at my sister’s door, tried to call her to open it (it’s an apartment complex, the buzzer doesn’t work). And it was …

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Feb
19

Can someone tell me why I didn't use Kubuntu before?

Right, so I have been playing around with Kubuntu, my new main desktop system, for like 2 days. There has been a bit of trickery and tweakery going on, like for example you have to tell ALSA that you are on a MacBook Pro Revision 3 in order to make the headphone jack work. Well …

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Feb
18

Ubuntu'ed

This is the end, my only friend: me, the Mac die-hard, no longer uses Mac OS X. LOLWUT? Yeah, it’s true. After having closely followed the development on the open road for a while, I have seen that there are in fact superior applications out there. For free. I always had an eye on Ubuntu, …

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Feb
14

Madlax: The Elda Taluta shirt

Since I have been pretty much blown away by the show Madlax, I’ll have a custom t-shirt made tomorrow morning in the city centre. It will be the only one of its kind with this particular image. If you want one too, I can have it made. Comment here and we’ll get in touch if …

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Feb
09

London Calling

Haven’t posted in a while. Damn. Well, time for something new, right now! =D Since I have been off for a while, and not doing much (does playing EVE count as doing something?), I decided that I gonna pay London a visit. I have never been there, so I booked a flight and off I …

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