Songs

I usually don't make such posts, but what the heck, I think some of these songs are worth sharing.. (Artist - Title).

No Second Troy - The Gardens After Lockout I liked the song so much on Last.fm I bought it. Yes. Pretty obscure band, at least I've never heard of it before but this song is great.

Ric Ocasek - Come On Light. Upbeat. Happy. Get this.

Sisters Of Mercy - Temple Of Love Just the pounding drums and guitar riffs. Chuggy sort of rocker and the shaky singing.

Avantasia - Promised Land High speed Power metal. Enough said. Oh and pretty nice lyrics.


Some poppish songs that I like recently:
The Graduate - Sit And Sink
The Last Goodnight - Incomplete
We The Kings - Skyway Avenue
Claus Eisenmann - Frei Sein

y0uT00b

The power of nightmares Volume 1, 2 and 3:

Zeitgeist Federal Reserve

n0id

The bee in the room always comes for me.

Safari suckage

Read this

Quoted here:

"Safari will delete most of your private data if you tell it to, but it won't delete your google search terms, unless you switch your default search engine to Yahoo and back. So far as I can tell there is no way to the various bits of history held by the YouTube and Google Maps apps. This isn't because the software is beta, it is because they are morons."

They just _have_ to get this fixed in the Safari 4 beta. I hope they do... But I'm almost sure they won't.

I will just have to content myself with the patent-worthy, revolutionary new feature for the iPhone 3.0, Cut 'n Paste.

ColorBlender

Came across this site: ColorBlender

Bookmarks are useless when you keep wiping your OS off let alone your browser. Hmm probably need to find an online site to store bookmarks and import/export from all versions of FireFox/Safari... probably sets (like "Work" bookmarks, "Home", "Personal" etc.) Hmm I wonder if some site exists already.

Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha

Schauenwirmal.

While it couldn't understand my query "when was VirtualBox 2.2 released" despite it being a simple question that has one single factual answer. I'm still not entirely sure how Wolfram Alpha is fed this factual information from whatever I've read of it.

But for other things like "what is the weather in stuttgart, germany" works like a charm. The really sweet thing is, it even gets weather information for my small village not too close to Stuttgart _AND_ _AND_ .. it isn't using the same information as nearby Stuttgart city. The downside is it still doesn't get the neighbouring village, only the village where I work.

Hmm I guess I must nag them to get weather information over my house. :/

EDIT: Reader Error. (Err, me). I _didn't_ find the village where I work either. Oh well.

Wolfram Alpha might not yet be the Google Killer in the Web 2.0 standards, and I don't think it can ever replace "i just want to find this web page" as it's not quite the same as Wolfram Alpha is about finding facts while Google is just about finding (facts or otherwise).

Okay... and now... we need the source code for Wolfram Alpha. The core better be C or Assembly, or you guys stink!!! :P

Google Code Colours

Google Code's choice of colours for source listing is by far the worst I've seen from Google in a while. Y. U. C. K. Red for comments, ... Using all my effort to refrain from cursing publicly.

I wonder if I can sed replace colours inside my eyes... Damn.

Hmm.. Preprocessor same colour as comments. What the hell. Doesn't anyone in Google see this!!!!! Ugh.

Mein Zeit

InaccuratelyPunctual vs. PerfektlyLate.

Guess which won?

Prevention better than discrimination?

A few days ago during lunch, my boss mentioned how in Germany (some) companies require employee photographs as part of their résumé and how in the US it shouldn't be included for it could suggest to the employer discrimination based on physical appearance. Interestingly, the logical thought train led me to the question, "is it not better to be discriminated before joining work?". Discrimination based on looks is something that isn't going to be eradicated like the plague, not until someone concocts Cleanex for the mind and pours into in the world's water supply.

So the point is, some people _are_ going to discriminate you based on your looks. Unfortunately, I know people who're supposed to be well educated that consciously or otherwise discriminate based on looks. Sadly, when values and virtues are no longer vital parts of education, it merely turns to academics. Schools no longer shape our character, they just help shape our careers (which still is important but not complete). Anyway, sorry for detracting from the original subject. Jetzt zuruck. The question here is, wouldn't it be better to confront discrimination early? If they're going to discriminate you based on your looks, wouldn't it be better that you don't associate with these people on something as important and repetitive as your job?

Now, if the employer _does_ discriminate you in a "positive" way based on your looks, while that might seem advantageous to you for entering the fortress, it still doesn't play fair, not for the person's whose place you were given. Also the consequences of being voted up based on looks may have other downsides that popup after the recruitment process.

One of the only places where I see discrimination as acceptable maybe in the movie industry for the reason of being unsuitable for the story/script. Movies are as important to the common man as Microsoft Windows is to me. I only use it to play games. Both, are just entertainment and should be kept that way. Although I would like to claim, games sure beats the hell out of movies :P

Back to thinking bored.

The Future Of Gaming

OnLive: On Demand Games. Anygame, Anytime, Anywhere.

Yes Streaming Games service.

OnLive is a new technology that could change the nature of gaming as we know it. No more saving up cash for buying that monster multi-fan video card, no more whining about how Vista sucks at gaming, no more random crashes, no more squabbles about OpenGL or Direct X.

OnLive is a technology that uses broadband to process everything on a remote server. This was in the making for seven years and this is coming now. Almost... Yes almost. Unveiled this month officially, OnLive has been received with mixed feelings. Consoles could be a thing of the past. Yes I know I'm jumping on the new, colourful band wagon too soon but they have already demonstrated the proof of concept and it appears to work. Crysis Wars - lagless.

OnLive can be played using their own OnLive MicroConsole just plugged to the TV, or using the Mac/PC (Yes that's right Mac!! wo0o0oh0o0o0). OnLive uses highly compressed transfers for virtually lag free gaming, all you need is a decent internet connection which nowadays shouldn't be a problem.

Splarg, enough. Take a look at the video on OnLive if you haven't already!!!

Net @ Home Finally!

So just got mein Internet anschluss :P this week! I didn't blag about it immediately as I was obviously excited, but 5 days later isn't bad, no?

Anyway, now I can blag!

16mbit flat rate - Euro 30. Seems a reasonable deal. A WLAN/ethernet router was also part of it (not rented thankfully). So far I love it to BITS :P

Lost & Found

Yesterday while trying to transfer some music from my unused iRiver iHP400 (? if iirc), I was pleasantly shocked to discover my Beezer source code backup!!! w00h00 and all that.

So, not to sound satanic but I am seriouly considering going with the devil :)