X2 Yes, LXG No

Went today to see the X2 (X-Men 2) press preview. If you've seen the first X-Men movie, you know what is in store for you: full action for the length of the film and great special effects. But what was not so great was the LXG - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen trailer which was shown before the X2. I've seen the trailer earlier as a QuickTime movie, but now it was on the big screen and you could get a better picture of what the film will be like. First of all, the name of the film will most likely be The League when the movie is released later this year. Apparently the full name is not commercial enough (I haven't liked the short form LXG either). But most disturbing was the trailer itself; judging from it, the film will be totally different from the orginal work it's based on (see my earlier comments on the comic). The trailer depicts The League as a fast-paced action flick and the main characters seem to have become more or less ordinary superheroes in the vain of the X-Men. I guess the only thing one can do in a situation like this, is to consider the film as an independent work and not as filmatisation of the comic. Well, at least the Finnish audience will get to see the the real League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in its original form before the film is released. And I can tell you, that the translation is brilliant -- I had a chance to glance through it last weekend.

Apple Features for International Users

Sign a petition demanding equal rights and features -- like iPhoto photo albums ordering system and especially the new iTunes Music Store services -- to Apple's international users also. Sign the petition here. As of writing this, there are over 1,000 signatures already.

The Apple Event Is Over (Updated)

Now to the downloadable goodies: iTunes and QuickTime 6.2. Get back to you later.

Update: Downloaded iTunes4, Quick Time 6.2 and iPod 1.3 Updater even though I don't have an iPod (yet?) No problems what so ever with the download or the installatioan. I even got to see the iTunes Music Store (which is accessible as an playlist item) for a while, but now I only get an an error message with the error code 504 and a request to try again later -- I guess the service is overloaded right now. Pity I didn't take snapshots of the Music Store to be able to post here. Well, I'm sure the service will be available soon enough again.

Update 2: The Music Store is up again. Looks nice, the search functions well and you can listen easily to the 30 second samples. There's music for example from Electric Light Orchestra, Kiss, Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, The Clash(!) but nothing from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones nor from Die Toten Hosen :-) The service seems to be (naturally, I guess) concentrating on American artists. And the bottom line: you can't purchase songs outside the US...

The Apple Event

Blast it! Couldn't get a live stream to the Apple event which is going on at the moment, so I have to rely on MacMerc (which died), MacRumors and MacMinute's live text coverages of the event... well, it's better than nothing. The announcements are:

New 10, 15 and 30 GB iPods. Thinner, lighter. First new feature is AAC decoding. On the go playlists. Alarm clock. Games. No colour screen, no video. USB2 (in addition to FireWire I guess). 15 GB and 30 GB have dock/cable included.

iTunes4. Has AAC like iPod. AAC 'sounds better than MP3'. Support for Rendezvous networking. DVD archive feature (1000 songs onto a DVD-R). Album Artwork can be used in iTunes. The new music service (see below) is built into iTunes4. Available today.

The iTunes Music Store. 200,000 tracks, unlimited CD burn for personal use. Playlist must be modified for every 10 burns. Put your music on an unlimited # of iPods. Play your music on up to 3 Macs. If you buy a new Mac, you need to deauthorize one and reauthorize another (hmm... this sounds like Microsoft, will cause objections). $0.99 per song. All songs are encoded in 128bit AAC, many of which 'sound better than a CD'. 37 sec previews of songs. Easy to navigate and find music. 1-click downloads. Available today - but only for US(!) Mac only in the beginning, Windows by the end of the year.

The Apple site is now also updated with the above mentioned goodies, and there's also QuickTime 6.2 with AAC support released. That's it folks!

Rock'n Roll

Got the idea to dig out old Kiss CDs from N�kym� rannalta (Cheers for that!), and they sound indeed good. While driving to work today I listened to Hotter than Hell, and my old favourites like Mainline, All the Way or Coming Home still rock! Note, that for me only the pre-I Was Made for Loving You stuff counts ;-)

But now it's different kind of rock'n roll that awaits me: it's called work and it includes meetings, reports and unfinished projects...

OK, enough of surfing and blogging; it's time to call it for the day. But before hitting the sack, I'll read some more of Se ei sittenk��n py�ri (see yesterday's post). The book is a difficult one in the sense that it actually requires one to think - very disturbing ;-)

Anonymous Blogging

If you want to stay absolutely anonymous, this, apparently, is the place: invisiblog.com. No, haven't tried it myself and don't intend to either. I think updating my two blogs 'semi-anonymously' is enough ;-)

What Monty Python Character Are You?

Haven't been doing these for a while, but if it's Monty Python, then absolutely...


Well, u-- um, can we come up and have a look?

Blimey, the link to the site wasn't included, it's here.

Apple Event

OK, tomorrow's the day when we get to know which predictions were true and which weren't. MacRumors have a nice summary of the rumors for tomorrow's announcement(s).

Switch Off Ad. More people are interested in switching off their PCs & Macs than ever before. See why they made the change and how easy it was. [Via visakopu.net]

'Father of Cappucino'

I've never paid any thought to the origin of the word 'cappucino'. Now, however, the Pope has beatified (= first step towards sainthood) the 'father of cappucino', a monk of the Capuchin order named Marco d'Aviano who lived in the 17th century. You can read more in the BBC article, where you can also find the explanation for the origin of cappucino:

Legend has it that, following the victory [over the Ottomans], the Viennese reportedly found sacks of coffee abandoned by the enemy and, finding it too strong for their taste, diluted it with cream and honey. The drink being of a brown colour like that of the Capuchins' robes, the Viennese named it cappuccino in honour of Marco D'Aviano's order.

If you want to put things into perspective, see this page. Recommended! [Via Kasa]

Phenomenology versus Science (Updated)

It has been a long time since reading a book review has made me decide to go and buy that book, but this is, however, what happened today while reading the morning paper. The book in question is Se ei sittenk��n py�ri by Juha Himanka. The book gets a praising review, but it is not exactly the book that got me excited but the new horizon for thought the subject of the book seems to be opening; the book certainly got the reviewer, Lassi Kurkij�rvi, excited.

The book is about the dichotomy between analytical philosophy and phenomenology arguing in favour of the latter. In phenomenology the way one perceives the world around him is considered more important than what actually might be the 'scientific truth'. An obvious example is the earth revolving the sun; but despite of this 'scientific fact' doesn't the sun every day rise from the east and set in the west thus revolving the earth? Apart from reading or hearing about it, what evidence do we have about it being any other way? Is the analytical way of explaining the the world around us really the best way of understanding our relation to it? The book and the article suggest that perception - in many cases - is more important than what ever might be the 'scientific truth'. After reading the article I realised also that what Bodil J�nsson wrote about the perception of time in her book (see my earlier posting) is exactly the same phenomenological approach to reality as what the book and the article are describing. More on the subject after I get my hands on the book.

Update: I went to a bookstore and bought the book. It was quite expensive at � 24. I'll start reading it tonight.

Heck, an other quotation from Ilkka Kokkarinen's weblog, but this time not from himself (and not in Finnish); it's a quotation from Daniel Mocsny and it fits perfectly to the recent music theme at my blog:

'I savor the delicious irony of seeing an industry built on the business model of selling youthful rebellion being brought down in the end by the very monster it created and fed. The recording industry made billions by encouraging kids to rebel against authority, and once again some animals became more equal than others.'

More on Upcoming Apple Music Service

There are more news trickling down about Apple's Music Service, which will be announced on Monday, and the picture is getting clearer all the time. Read the latest from Billboard and MacMinute.

Now Playing...

... in the car stereo (not in my head) Second Coming (3/5 stars). I give three points for the three decent songs in the album, the rest, IMHO, are more or less 'fillers' (About the 'fillers' see yesterday's posting 'The Death of the Music Album' and especially the comments part).

Mac OS X 10.2.6 Update Before Panther?

>Mac Rumors report that according to some users the update has been seeded to developers. See the article for list of expected improvements and fixes.

Taxation

I just got the latest paycheck yesterday and today I read the below passage from Ilkka Kokkarinen's blog. It's in Finnish, but what it says -- in Kokkarinen's unrivalled style -- is that the taxation in Canada, where he lives, is in effect half of what it is in Finland. If my income tax percentage had been 20 % I would have got... oh, [censored]!

'Tienasin viime vuonna selv�sti enemm�n kuin koskaan ennen el�m�ss�ni, ja lopullinen veroprosenttini j�i silti alle kahdenkymmenen , kun Suomessa samoista tuloista peritt�v�t tulo- ja kunnallisverot olisivat Verolaskurin mukaan olleet yhteens� yli kaksinkertaiset . Ei kyll� voi sanoa kuin ett� ihan oikeasti miljoonat kiitokset siit� , kaikki te vahvat ja ihanat suomalaiset naiset, etten koskaan kelvannut teille. Toivottavasti siell� Kekkoslovakiassa on mukava asua ja el��, kun korkeiden verojen vastineeksi saa kaikessa maailman parasta palvelua. Ja mit�s sanotte, kaikki te trendikk��t nuoret vihreit� ��nest�v�t akateemiset, eik�s teid�n verojanne pit�isikin viel� entisest��nkin korottaa, ettei kukaan huono-osainen vain joudu vaaraan pudota yhteiskunnan ulkopuolelle?'

Apple Software Updates (Updated :)

Apple has released AppleWorks Updaters for OS X (6.2.7), OS 9 (6.2.5) and Windows (6.2.1). The OS X update 'provides improvements to the presentation module, AppleScript, web content searching, printing, label printing, table support, and spell checking with user added words. The update provides better recognition and handling of Office 97 and Office 2000 files, improved support for multimedia files in database documents, improved web template downloading over slow internet connections, improved spreadsheet module--including Auto-Calculation, as well as enhanced support for documents which contain links. This version also supports web based templates and clipart on networks using proxy servers.' I'm presently downloading the 15.7 MB updater at the background, so no experiences with it yet. I'll try out especially the Office compatibility later on.

Apple has also released Airport 5.0.4 through automatic software update. The update mainly promises improvements to the Airport Extreme. Haven't updated my Airport software yet.

Update: Boo! The AppleWorks updater was only for North American English version and of course I have International English, so I'll just have to wait. And this was not the first time I've had problems with different English versions of AppleWorks...

The Death of a Music Album?

While reading about the rumoured Apple music download service, which is supposed to be announced in a few days, it struck me that we are probably facing the end of the music album as we know it. If the service becomes a success and you can download music around one Euro per song, are you still going to purchase a full album of songs from the artist who has the next radio hit? In most cases probably not. Let's face it, most of the albums include less than great filler songs, just to make up the required 12 to 16 tracks of the album. If this purchase-per-song scenario comes true (and I'm sure it will eventually even if Apple's sevice doesn't work out) why would the artists need to come up with at least a dozen songs per album anymore? Will we be seeing 'albums' of only few songs or will everybody be just producing singles? We might be in the position to find out in the foreseeable future.

.Mac and Apple ID Unified

I got an e-mail from Apple today. The e-mail was entitled Your .Mac Account is now your Apple ID, and an excerpt of the meassege read: Apple has recently made some changes to its customer account system. Apple has unified login information across Apple ID and .Mac accounts. This means that you can now use your .Mac email address and password to access all Apple ID services, like Apple Support, the Apple Store, and iPhoto 1-Click purchases. This, of course, is good news and simplifies the usage of Apple's on-line services.

Just a quick note: While driving to work today I listened - after a very long time - to the best live album I know, Bis zum bitteren Ende - Die toten Hosen Live! (4,5/5 stars) Just wanted to let you folks know ;-) But now it's time to get to work again after the Easter holidays...

If this is true - and I'm afraid it is - it falls into the 'Words Fail Me' catergory: kuro5hin.org || Breastfeeding Now Considered Pornographic. 'America - land of the free. And to guarantee that freedom, everyone has to be constantly watchful. Like the photo store clerk from Eckerd who dutifully reported a Peruvian-born couple's lewd shots of their infants to the Richardson (Dallas/Texas suburbs) police. The photos showed the parents' two infants bathing naked, lying together in bed with their mother (again naked) and the 1-year-old Rodrigo suckling his mother's (naked) breast. So the couple was arrested -- the maximum prison sentence for the crime in question being 20 years -- and the children taken away.'

eWeek: Next Mac OS X Puts User at the Center. 'Apple Computer Inc. is planning to put the user at the center of its next major release of Mac OS X. According to sources, that's the umbrella term the Cupertino, Calif., Mac maker is applying to an arsenal of innovative new features in store for Mac OS X 10.3, a k a "Panther," reportedly due to ship in September. They said User at the Center features will make it simpler for individual users to personalize their computing experience and to move seamlessly among Macs and other devices. And as a marketing strategy, Panther's User at the Center capabilities are intended to challenge user-centric capabilities of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP as well as its forthcoming "Longhorn" client.'

Music to Your Ears

The Mac Web is buzzing about the music-related announcement Apple is expected to make on the 28th of April. The possible announcements, according to the rumours, could be:

1) Apple-branded music download service with five major record labels
2) A new (possibly music-related) 'communication device'
3) Apple buying Universal Music (yes, this rumour is still making the rounds)
4) Some combination of the above.

Anyway, Apple has posted invitations to an event on the 28th where there will be 'announcement that will be music to your ears' reports MacCentral.

A Beautiful Day

It's the Second Easter Day and it's still a holiday. Today was also the first day this year when we had coffee outside. The weather forecast has promised colder weather for the rest of the week, but right now it doesn't matter; it is warm and the sun is shining from a blue, blue sky.

IR to the Rescue

>While visiting my parents, I spent some time trying to fix the connection between their iMac Rev. B and an old PowerBook G3. My mother is doing genealogical research and would like to be able to have the PowerBook with her when visiting libraries or archives. The problem is that the Ethernet connection at the PowerBook was not working properly and since there is no disk drive in the iMac, which is her main computer, there was no way to transfer data between the machines. I had with me an old Ethernet PC card for the PB, but couldn't get that to work either. So, it seemed that there was no way to make the connection, but then I realised that both of the machines had Infrared ports. It had been some time since I had fiddled with Mac OS 9's networking and file sharing, but in the end it was quite straight forward and I could make the two Macs to connect automatically whenever the Infrared ports are brought into range with each other. I also set up a system of aliases on both machines enabling easy copying of data from one place to another. So, now my mother can enjoy a 'wireless' connnection between the machines.

Now playing (inside my head) The Popes: Holloway Boulevard (4)

The M�mmi Issue Revisited

>My m�mmi posting caused some discussions both on and off-line; N�kym� rannalta commented it (in Finnish) yesterday, and we had a discussion about the right way to enjoy m�mmi while we are having a family gathering at my parents� place. This occasion gave me also an opportunity to conduct a statistical study about the preferred ways of eating m�mmi. Here are the results from 12 people:

Cream + sugar 4
Milk + sugar 3
Whipped vanilla cream 1
Cream, no sugar 2
Don't eat/like m�mmi 2

So, this study corroborates my claim that nobody eats m�mmi as such. Note that for clarity�s sake, I have not made a difference between the different varieties of cream and milk. Happy Easter everybody ;-)

P.S. We just had a dinner (traditionally fish because of Good Friday) and after that everybody had a chance to taste m�mmi with their favourite add-ons. I tried the whipped cream for the first time, but my favourite still remains cream and sugar.

M�mmi and Poor Foreigners

>If you are interested in Finnish Easter traditions, you can get a good overview from this page (in English). Note especially the section about m�mmi, which is described as being oven-baked malt porridge. No doubt that description is technically correct, but somehow I've never considered m�mmi as being porridge, and I would rather leave the word untranslated. That aside, one of the new Easter traditions of the Finnish media is to give m�mmi to foreigners to taste, and then await for 'humorous' comments from them, when they don't know whether somebody is pulling their leg or whether the stuff really is a traditional treat. The point here is that nobody in Finland eats m�mmi without cream (or milk) and sugar, where as the poor foreigners get nothing but this omnious looking -- to put it mildly -- black stuff to taste. Let's see how many 'journalists' get this great idea this year... yawn!

Noteworthy? Part XXVI

>Again something that has already been noted by many sites: Purring Kitty - bringing pleasure to your Nokia. I have tension in my upper back, but unfortunately my Nokia Communicator is not one of the models one can turn into a 'discreet vibrating massager'.

New Safari Public Beta 2

>Many sites have already noted the new Safari Public Beta 2 (v73) release. New features include tabbed browsing and auto-fill (which have already been included in previously leaked builds). I've never actually used the auto-fill function - not in Internet Explorer nor now in Safari. However, I'm a big fan of tabbed browsing and have been using it ever since it appeared in some interim build after Beta 1. I mostly Command-click to URLs to open them in a new tab. You can also Ctrl or right-click a link and you can choose wether the tab will be opened right away or in the background. Now, with v73 (it might have been there already earlier) there is also a cool new feature: by Command-clicking a folder of URLs in your address bar you can launch ALL the sites right away in separate tabs. This is a very convenient way of launching for example your daily blog roll with one click and letting the rest of them load in the background while starting to read the first one.

Witches Galore

>One of the traditions for Palm Sunday are the little witches going from door to door with their decorated willow twigs, with which they 'whip' health and good luck for the coming year and get chocolate eggs, sweets or money in return.



Actually the withces were not part of the tradition in south-east Finland when I was a kid. Traditionally there was the whiping part on Palm Sunday and then you got the payment, normally an egg, a week later at Easter.

Thinking Differently?

The more I think about the Apple-Universal thing, the more sense it makes to me. But as you can see below, it doesn't make sense to many other people: after the rumours started circulating, Apple's share fell into a long-time low. However, if the rumours were true, some of the other lately circulating rumours would fit nicely into place. For example, the rumour about a month ago about Apple planning to sell music on-line for � 99 per song makes perfect sense now. Apple buys Universal - world's biggest music company - continues that business more or less as usual, BUT makes Universal's music also available through the Net for Macintosh users only. Think about the possible implications of this to the Mac platform. Of course this is only guessing (and not even educated guessing) from my part, but as before, Steve Jobs & co. might have a huge surprise for us.

Noteworthy? Part XXV

>'Patriotic items for fanatical flagwavers': Flag-O-Rama!

Apple to Buy Universal Music? (Updated)

>Now this would be really something, if it would turn out to be true: Apple May Buy Universal Music for $6B.

Update: Apparently this is not just a rumour. Here's more on the subject: AAPL drops, Apple bid jeopordized.

Mac OS X 10.2.5 Update and OS X Test Server

>I've been away for two days (without a Net connection), and couple of interesting things have happened in the meanwhile (and I'm not talking about the recent development in the Iraq war). Firstly there is the Mac OS X 10.2.5 update, which I just installed via automatic Software Update. According to the installation notes, the update includes lots of tweaks and bug fixes to various components of the system. Nothing visible has changed, as far I can see. I'll have to keep an eye on things for a while, I guess.

Another develompet is that our Mac OS X server is up and running at work. It is an 'interim test server' using latest PowerMac 1.42 dual processor model. We'll be testing OS X server software in coming days and weeks in order to determine wheather it would suite our needs and whether we'll acquire an Xserve. I did a small test with copying a folder with over 500 MB of data onto the OS X test server and to our Windows 2000 server. I also copied the same folder to a different partition on my PowerBook G4 800 MHz. Even though this is a highly 'unscientific' test, the results were interesting. Copying the folder to the Win server took 1'50" and to a different partition 1'28". Finally copying the folder to the OS X server took 1'00". So copying to OS X server was almost twice as fast as to the Win 2000, and faster than making a local copy on the hard drive! Very nice indeed.

A Test (Updated)

>What the hell happened to my blog?!?

Update: It was me this time, not Blogger. I had managed to mess up the template so that for a while only one post was visible, but now things should be back in more or less working order again. Sorry!

Pictures from Iraq

>Like many others I've been watching scenes of the rejoicing people in Iraq, but not everybody around the world can see the pictures. For example, one of the BBC reporters writes in the BBC's Reporters' Log: 'Syrian state television is not showing any of the pictures of Iraqis celebrating the downfall of the Saddam regime.'

Saved by the Blog

>Guy meets a girl. The guy is happy, but things are not what they seem to be. The guy gets an omnious hint via his weblog. The guy has no choice but to confront the girl: 'Your photo album... are those pictures of your niece and nephew, or are they actually your kids?' A true story that will make the soap opera script writers eat their heart out. Read it yourself: What happened to me and the new girl. [Via Boing Boing]

Adopt a Demon

>Click the picture to adopt your very own demon. I chose demon no. 59, but since that sounded so impersonal, I named my demon 'Abulafia' (some of you might know where that comes from).


Thanks to Chew for providing the link--even though she wasn't that enthusiastic about the idea of a pet demon ;-)

First Finnish SARS Death

>First Finnish citizen has died to SARS. The person who died was a 53 year old male worker for ILO who had travelled from Geneve via Bangok to Beijing, where he died yesterday, informed the Chinese officials. There are no diagnosed cases of SARS in Finland... yet.

Internet Enabled Toilet Roll

>It's true, read more from this BBC article.

Ten Thoughts about Time

>I just finished reading a book by Swedish professor Bodil J�nsson, called '10 ajatusta ajasta' ('Tio tankar om tid', 'Ten Thoughts about Time'). One of her aims is to provoke the reader to review how he or she experiences time. According to J�nsson, the fact that we feel in a hurry, i.e. short of time, need not be the case. In fact she says that 'time is all we have', nothing else. She makes a distinction between 'clock time' and personal 'perceived' time.


She also gives advice on how to gain more of the 'perceived' time, and for this she presents various methods. One of the methods is to learn to identify how our time nowadays is divided into small pieces by appointments, dates, meetings, scheduled holidays etc. In our childhood, on the other hand, we had long summer holidays without any definite plans, no dividing elements, which then resulted us experiencing the time as very long; actually experiencing more and in a deeper way. Getting more undivided time, which can be gained in various ways, is one of the keys to get more 'perceived' time. An example of her suggestions on how to get more undivided time, are mobile phone free coaches in trains, where one could experience an undisturbed, i.e. an undivided time period for the duration of the train trip. She says that she as actually proposed this to the Swedish railroads. Undivided time is also essential for the thought process; as she says: 'Thoughts take time' ('tankar tar tid'). If you feel that you are short of time or not in control of it, try reading this book. I'll try to implement at least some of its thoughts in my life.

Akamai Turns al-Jazeera Down

>Akamai, the company providing web services for example to Apple, has cut ties with al-Jazeera. Akamai was hired by al-Jazeera to help in handling increased traffic loads and hacker attacks at their site. Akamai didn't give any reason for pulling out, but al-Jazeera said the reason was political. Read more from BBC article.

Al-Jazeera Finally in English

>After lots of problems with hackers, the English pages of Al Jazeera are finally working. The site promises to give 'objective and balanced global news coverage and analysis'. It'll be interesting to compare its newscasting to the Western sites.

Noteworthy? Part XXIV

>Make a Starship Enterprise out of a floppy disks. Full instructions can be found here.

More Dictators On-Line

>Few days back I noted Kim Jong-il, now it's Saddam Hussein at Saddam's Cyber Palace [Via absum.net]

Super Squid

>According to this BBC article a 'colossal' squid had been found in Antarctic. Below a picture indicating the scale of an adult squid and a picture of a 'still immature' specimen caught in the Ross Sea few weeks ago.



[Via Chew's Place]

Floppy Disk RAID

>We have been considering FireWire disk RAID system for a special use in our company, but according to MacCentral Blade Olson has created a floppy disk RAID by using only Mac OS X's included DiskUtility. And according to the news the 5 x floppy RAID is faster than a single drive.

The oddball RAID systems may be little more than curiosities to most folks, but as an avid Mac enthusiast and professional Olson is hoping that his "USB FDD RAID" serves as an inspiration, too. "I hope it also inspires people to try stuff with their computers and push them to do things that no one else has," he told MacCentral. "This is how we can innovate. I love OS X because it is so flexible and stable that I can do such a wacky project so easily."

Irag-O-Meter Updated

>The IRAQ-O-METER, which provides an alternative way on following the Iraq war, has been updated. New statistics on the site include among others 'Coalition Fatalities', 'Leaflets Dropped' and 'Leadership Status'.

Noteworthy? Part XXIII

>selfQuit 1.0b1 is a simple little aplication which will quit itself right after launching. That's it; no more, no less. Despite the simplicity and beauty of this app, the usefulness of it has not been revealed to everybody, like this review indicates: This application does nothing. It is not suitable for testing anything. This should be removed from V[ersion]T[racker]. On the other hand, some users have grasped the very essence of this brilliant tool: OMG, I hope the author releases the source, I'm just dying to know how such a function was implemented! ...and you know what else is sad? IT'S IN BETA! The application has been released only today and it has already seen seen 90 downloads from VersionTracker(!) [Via visakopu.net]

P.S. Did I have a question mark in the title? Of course this is noteworthy!

Anti-Bloggies

>The Anti-Bloggies 2003 Awards site advertises itself with the following text: Like the World Really Needed Another Blog Award, but at least the award categories are interesting. Here are some of them: 'Most / Least Updated Blog', 'Most Caffeinated Blogger', 'Most Obsessed with "Which X Are You?" Tests', 'Biggest Whiner After Beind De-Linked', 'Most References to Pet in Blog' (no, the winner was not pinseri :-), 'Most Depressing Blog', 'Dumbest Title' (no, my blog didn't get that award), 'Best Heterosexual Weblog' etc. etc.

Trans-Atlantic Stupidity

>I've writen earlier about stupid things happening in the States aimed towards the French, due to the controversy over the war, but now the idiocy is on the other side of the Atlantic. Read the BBC story about defaced British WWII cemetary in France.

Finder Exposed

>An exhaustive look into Mac OS X Finder: About the Finder... by John Siracusa. An essential read to all OS X (power) users.

'Defender of Freedom'

>As Daypop put it: 'This is disturbing on so many levels.'



For more in the same vain, visit Military Shop at collectiblestoday.com.

Noteworthy? Part XXII

>Introducing The dullest blog in the world. Maybe I should convert my blog to a similar kind of format? Let's see, it would be something like this:

I'm sitting on a couch. Surfing the web. The pillow behind my back is uncomfortable.

What's Your Superhero Name?



[Via Chew's Place]

What's Your IP Number?

>The answer's available at WhatIsMyIP.com. Tx Timo.