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Coldest end of May since 40 years! Do I need to tell you more? Whit Sunday on ice?! Snow covering green leaves?! It is the August that counts, as we say nowadays!

More Bad Advertising

Seeing this billboard for a nice & shiny new car down in the subway, I was rather disappointed by the little attention to detail. Driving thru this wonderful scenery the rear mirror of the car displays just a white bit of nothing, means no sky, no road, just nothing. White, plain white. Even cheap computer games can do better than this in 2006.

672 Confused Once More

Total Confusion at Studio 672 started off in Cologne during 1997 and will close down at the end of this June. Featuring Michael Mayer and Tobias Thomas as residents, the bill during the following years saw DJs ranging from Craig Richards to DJ Tonka, Ricardo Villalobos to Theo Parrish, Superpitcher to Miss Kittin playing. Plus many more DJs, strange live acts and the ever up for it Friday night crowd. People did change, recently for the worse, but the spirit was the same for many years. Mayer rose from a local hero to a worldwide acclaimed DJ and remixer during the same period. So last Friday was the last session with the "original" lineup, four dates will follow with the final all areas event on June 30st! The pictures from last Friday are here.

Parc Guell

Taken with my trusty old Fuji MX-2900 in Barcelona, some years ago.

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Pie 2 Pie, Pig 2 Pig

German officials searched 130 homes in the country this morning. Around 4000 users of the p2p program eDonkey have been tracked on a certain server that was under surveillance during the last weeks. We understand users shared copyrighted music files. Hence computers were confiscated, several civil lawsuits filed.

We think this is a giant step forward towards beating the worst criminals this country has seen after WW II. A major crackdown against piracy which leaves artist starving, record companies declining and puts people working in schellack factories on the dole.

Beat the pirates where it hurts! Sink their galleons and bring us the head of the p2p monster!

AND SWITCH THE INTERNET OFF NOW!

Eurovision 2006

The papers are full of Eurovision comments, so I ´m really worried if this show was too much for the average tv consuming punter. But to be honest the winning act from Finland is just a cheap copy made for prime time tv of what GWAR did ages ago. I found myself plastered in red fake blood when I once saw them live at the infamous Rose Club in Cologne. Good fun, but surely a thing of the past that has finally made it onto national tv. Snooze.

Hypnotizing

To achieve a state of hypnotism, turn up the speakers, lock your eyes on the screen and click this link...

You Have Been Freuded, Warhol

Einstein Scratches His Head

The latest computer and gaming shows revealed a new gadget for overflowing PC rigs: the physics accelerator card. Repeat slowly and think about it. Accelerating physics with a card you plug into your PC. Einstein would have been worried.  But after we got used to stuffing the rigs with blasting sound cards, high definition grafix cards or QUAD-SLI systems we now will accelerate the simulation of physics in games (at least I can´t think of a use in word processing programs right now) with a new kind of extra processor. It is true that contemporary games do simulate physics in games better than Donkey Kong once did, but buying a card just to make this even more realistic? But maybe I´m too pessimistic, as I thought SVGA was really top notch for gaming...

Ibiza Picture Cloud

ibiza by picturecloud.com

Money Issues

Last friday I was astonished how my funds had developed, one particular depot gained around 1000 Euro within less than two months! I did mention this looked completely unreal and that I could smell something. So the losses at the stock exchange this week got things back to normal, hopefully. Or is there more around the corner?

Out In The Green

No, this blog is not just repeating itself, it´s the crap weather once again. The weeks pass by with mild to warm weather. And just in time for the weekend and the possible open air parties it´s starts raining, temperatures are going down and even the most experimental promoter opts for postponing the party for "one more week or two".

Talking about the weather again, the reported mass invasion of pollen is big news in the media here. Scientists are cited, saying the winter was quite long and now NATURE EXPLODES. Straight into my windows, it seems!

Phra Sumen Fort

This old fort is to be found not too far away from infamous Khao San Road in Bangkok. Looking for a special snack bar we came across Phra Sumen Fort in the blazing midday heat. The bar was closed but we found a food stall run by an age old lady instead.

Here's Where the Story Ends

Woke up with the Tin Tin Out version playing in my head!

People I know, places I go,
make me feel tongue tied.
I can see how people look down,
their on the inside.

Heres where the story ends.

People I see, weary of me, showing their good side,
and I can see how people look down.
Im on the outside.

Heres where the story ends,
Oh, heres where the story ends.

Its that little souvenir of a terrible year,
which makes my eyes feel sore.
And I never should of said,
the books that you read where all I loved you for.

Its that little souvenir of a terrible year,
which makes me wonder why.
Its the memorys of the shed,
that made me turn red.
Surprise, surprise, surprise.

Crazy I know, places I go,
make me feel so tired.
And I can see how people look down,
Im on the outside.

Heres where the story ends,
Oh, heres where the story ends.

Its that little souvenir of a terrible year,
which makes my eyes feel sore.
And who ever would of thought,
the books that you bought where all I loved you for?

And the devil never said, go down to the shed.
I know where I belong.
But the only thing I ever really wanted to say
was wrong, was wrong, was wrong.

Its that little souvenir of a terrible year,
which makes me smile inside.
So Ill cynically, cynically say
the world is that way.
surprise, surprise, surprise.

Oh, heres where the story ends,
Ooh, here is where the story ends.

Hidden Treasures

Some pics are too special to stay on the harddisk. So in this new section they will hopefully see the light of the day on  computer screens around the world. We start of with this photo from Bali.

My Body Keeps Changing My Mind

You, you're driving me wild
You're making me fall in love
In love with you baby, I
I'm losing control
I don't wanna let go yet
Till you want me
You, you're all that I need
You're all that I want
And I'd sure love to love you, I
I gotta go slow
Keep it under control now
Till you want me
But my body keeps changing my mind
Keeps changing my heart
When we're dancing

Strange to think that Karen Carpenter sang this song. Her mind was more likely to change her body one could argue, until the day she died because of Anorexia. Hearing her singing it with so much passion it could be she dreamt of the opposite. We´ll never know.

Lift Me Up!

So preserve oil resources some German trucks have developed a lifted mode of operation. Saw this one just seconds before it started moving again, but it is a truely fascinating view. Wonder how they do this, but as long as it saves some gasoline, no one is really bothered.

The Pollen From Hell

Living in this flat for nearly ten years I have never experienced such an alien invasion as in the last days. Looks like some pollen from hell has come in through half opened windows. Cleaning the kitchen yesterday was in vain, because today brought even more in. The blinds in the living- and bedroom did hold most of it back, but the kitchen is covered in a thick layer of pollen again. Walking around with bare feet feels a bit like being close to a beach! So why didn´t this happen in former years? Answers on a postcard please!

Fake Persons

Jeffrey Ibarra, Hope Bolton, Oliver Reese, Emmie Workman, Irene Gaines, Cordelia Bland, Pen Cabrera, Rosalie Knapp, Gideon Erickson, Dave Robbins, Marina Cooley, Bessy Martin, Magnus Shaffer, Dickon Lynn, Wilfrid Childs.

What have those people got in common?

They are all fake senders of spam flooding my mailbox. The new kind of spam my Spamihilator does not yet filter!

Design Relaunch

Someone shot my blog!

If You Wondered

Saw this logo today and think it can´t be told early enough! This blog is will not be featuring any World Cup content. You have been warned!

Junkie Chicken

Last week in Munich I came across a rather gross store dis- play: junkie chicken threatened by a big axe! So what did the shop owner want to tell us? Especially because it was a shop specialised in spectacles and not dealing with illegal substances! Anyone?

New Features?

The next level of this service has some new features inclu- ded, so maybe the design of this page will change soon. I am just playing around with the options, but don´t want it to look to flashy. Space for more than four times of pictures is now avaiable, so fear the worst...