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I got myself on of those shiny Nokia N810 Internet Tablets. Naturally, it comes with a blogging client. Guess on what machine this post was written on.

More experiences to follow...

Went to see Misery Index playing in Munich last night. For a pleasant surprise, one of the supporting bands was Man Must Die from Glasgow. I actually had them seen play four years ago in The Subway in Edinburgh. They put on a great show, as well.

Anyhow, Misery Index left me speechless. They started playing, one gigantic, dirty, phat wave of angry crawled out of the speakers and swept towards the crowd. I could not decide whether to simply stand there speechless, or watch the drummer perform miracles with his drumsticks, or simply mosh my brain away.

A great night out, despite suffering from lack of sleep today.

Time for a re-delurk. I know, shame on me, haven't blogged for months. Quick summary's in order: My move back to Germany went fine. Job's ok, I'm well.

Anyhow, to get to the point, I will be visiting Edinburgh in order to attend the wedding of my former workmate Derek. Searching for accommodation was a wee bit of a hassle, but random coincidence helped me. Trying to google for the Thistle Hotel in Leith in order to check the rates I stumbled upon "The Original Edinburgh Thistle Hotel", a small B&B in Manor Place. With a rate for 35 quid per night for a single room, that's much preferred to staying in a proper hotel, where rates can easily be five times as much with the rooms not being much better anyways. Plus, it's closer to the airport and The Kilt Hire Co. where I will probably get my Prince Charlie outfit for the occasion ;-)

I wouldn't mind to get together with old friends and workmates, enjoy a pint or two of that Callie Eighty, reminisce about the glorious past and so on. If you're interested just drop a comment in this blog or IM or email me. My UK mobile number won't be available until arrival in Edinburgh, which will be on Thursday the 8th of November (staying until Monday). Alternatively, a visit at one of the curry houses might be a splendid idea, as well. I haven't found a good Indian Restaurant in Ingolstadt yet, and I really miss T3h Curry.

“it me rodney”

now I’m scared ;-)

I just discovered that I’m currently the top hit at http://alpha.qunu.com/
for the search term “linux”. Wohoo :-)

(btw, my nick is incinerator there)

... one of the better SciFi authors in this world, died today in a hospital in Krakow, Poland. He was 84 years old.

R.I.P. Mr. Lem

http://www.parm.net/web2.0/

1.) kmail has some magic to remind you that you've forgotten to add the attachment to the email you've been writing.

2.) Ubuntu has logjam packaged, and it even works.

3.) (X)Emacs has a rot13 command

I've been invited to DJ at Edgar's next Bloodlust party. I will do one or two stints of 30 minutes each. Besides the usual Death Metal/Grindcore fuvg I've also compiled a set of German metal bands of various genres. Perhaps I will be able to chop in a song or two in order to provide some "cultural exchange" *ggg*

The party will take place on Jan 21st at the Teviot Union Terrace Bar.

( Bloodlust Flyer )

Spread the word ;-)

Your Social Dysfunction: Normal Being average in terms of how social you are, as well as the amount of self-esteem you have, you're pretty much normal. Good on you.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com Please note that we aren't, nor do we claim to be, psychologists. This quiz is for fun and entertainment only. Try not to freak out about your results.

http://www.pandora.com/

Seems to work quite nicely. Even my rather extreme taste of music is well dealt with. It is not exactly the same as last.fm but imho better for discovering new things.

They claim they don't recommend by name but by the inherent elements found in particular songs, using genetic algorithms. Well, we'll see *ggg*

If you want to know to what kind of music I listen to, click this.

All Your Base Are Belong To Us is dead.

Because now we have The Backstroke Of The West!

If you want to know what I'm doing right now: roflmao'ing, Big Time.

According to this article in The Independent, Apple is a company that "makes the iPod and a range of computers". Apple is not famous for its famous computers no more. No, now it is famous for their range of portable music players. And then they are switching to Intel cpus, too. If I were a Mac user I would jump ship and install GNU/Linux or BSD asap.

WAY More Scientific You have: 92% SCIENTIFIC INTUITION and 55% EMOTIONAL INTUITION

The graph on the right represents your place in Intuition 2-Space. As you can see, you scored about average on emotional intuition and super high on scientific intuition.Keep in mind that very few people score high on both! In effect, you can compare your two intuition scores with each other to learn what kind of intuition you're best at. Your scientific intuition is stronger than your emotional intuition. Your Emotional Intuition score is a measure of how well you understand people, especially their unspoken needs and sympathies. A high score score usually indicates social grace and persuasiveness. A low score usually means you're good at Quake. Your Scientific Intuition score tells you how in tune you are with the world around you; how well you understand your physical and intellectual environment. People with high scores here are apt to succeed in business and, of course, the sciences. Try my other test! The 3 Variable Funny Test It rules.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 98% on Scientific You scored higher than 17% on Interpersonal

Link: The 2-Variable Intuition Test written by jason_bateman on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

I managed to revamp my website at http://www.dominikbodi.de/
It uses guppy now. Contents will follow laggishly *ggg*

Orphanage have disbanded :-(

Artikel auf heise news: Lobbyverbände fordern neues Abgabensystem für Urheberrechte.

Lol, ja in der Tat. Ich bin auch für ein neues Abgabensystem für Urheberrechte. Die Verwertungsgesellschaften sollten soviel von den Urheberrechten abgeben wie möglich, dann kämen die eigentlichen Rechteinhaber endlich mal zum Genuss der Früchte ihrer Arbeit. Und wir Konsumenten hätten auch mehr davon.

Had quite pleasant trip to Germany during the last 3 weeks. After two days back at work I am off again. A friend of mine is having his stag night.... in Madrid, yay. Finally, I can put this theory of mine to a serious test *ggg*

I'm trying to get all my Livejournal friends' locations plotted on a map - please add your location starting with this form. Username: (Then get your friends to!)

It seems the powers that be have decided to pull the plug on the Rio brand of portable media players. What a pity. I own a Rio Karma myself and it actually is quite a cool player thing, supporting the audio formats like so-much-better-than mp3 Ogg Vorbis and even lossless FLAC.

This doesn't really come as a surprise, though. There haven't been new firmware releases for a really long time. It seems The digitalnetworks Rio became victim of a another we-want-to-buy-you-out-but-we-don't-know-what-to-do-with-you company.

But alas, there is still hope, the CPU of the Karma is almost the same as in an IPod, and there is a Linux port for that gizmo already. Maybe some good heart starts porting Linux to the Rio Karma....