Revenge Of The Nerds

Many manufacturers of hardware and software produce stuff that is crippled in it's use and with locked features, like mp3-players that only cooperate with certain software or os's. They don't want the customer to use it as freely as the custumer wants it.
But there are clever nerds, who use their creative talents to liberate those products from their chains, so users, who paid for a fully-functional item, can fully enjoy it.
Sometimes these 'hackers' go even further and turn something in a completely different thing, with funny results.
There are special websites dedicated to this and 'Hackaday' is one of them
hack a day - www.hackaday.com _

Freedom for all!

Update about Claude Lelouch movie

On Januari 10, this year, I posted an article about a short movie by the French director Claude Lelouch, called 'Rendezvous', showing a rollercoaster ride through Paris (France) in the nineteen-seventies, by a guy on the way to a meeting with his girl.
The link to the movie-file in that post appears to be dead, as I found out at Michael Meiser's blog. But there is another place where you can find it, in a much smaller size.

There are also some other interesting articles to be found about this movie that has a "cult" status: one is a review on a site about cult films, and another is an excerpt from a biography of Claude Lelouch about the movie (in french).

Institute for Backup Trauma

John Cleese fans, here's a tip for you!

He's a doctor in "Institute for Backup Trauma", an ad for backup software.
It's about traumas caused by backup troubles with oldfashioned tapes, and it's really funny

Institute for Backup Trauma

Al Green - Minister of Soul

He did it again. My all time favorite music artist Al Green, the master of spiritual soul with the golden voice, has released a new album, Everything's OK. This album is much more than ok.

Listen here: http://www.bluenote.com/algreenplayer/ if you need to be convinced.
The New York Times has a meaningful article about him and the album:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/19/arts/music/19gree.html

With A Little Help From Her Friends

Lately I heard on Wholewheatradio about Mary Travers, of the Peter Paul & Mary folk-group. She's suffering from leukemia and is hopefully getting a bone marrow transplant in the New York hospital where she'll be for 6 weeks or more.
Let's all help her get through this, even if you don't know her. That would be a good use of the internet, to get people from all over the world to join for a good cause.
Forget your selfish thoughts to blog about for a moment and help a lady in distress.

You can do this by sending her 'get well' wishes, something to cheer her up, to the special email-address getwellmary@aol.com. Let's hear it for the girl!

The Place Where I Live

Hello visitors,

I posted some pictures of my home to my photo-album site,
so if your interested in where and how I live, take a look.

The Place Where I Live - a photoset on Flickr

IPod very popular at Microsoft

About two thirds of the Microsoft employees seem to be using Apple's iPod instead of audioplayers supported by Microsoft software. This worries the MS management a lot.

Hilarious, isn't it?!

Wired News: Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill