Sadie was last seen in Victoria/BC in the first week of March. It’s said she moved to something that’s like a cottage. Do you know where she is? Then contact us. We are very anxious about her. Spread the word if you can.
I played with MacOSaiX…
Great App… 
Quite impressive results … and I honestly just hit the start button
I used to have very crazy ID3-Tags in my MP3 Collections… sometimes this and sometimes that way tagged…but not generally consistently tagged and named. There was no automated way to re-Tag them… until now… my mate Christian brought this cool tool to my attention:
“MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information. You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your MP3 collections”
my first Impression: nifty!
Source: http://www.musicbrainz.org
Oh that was easy! – To get the R5 Design quickly “converted” into the R6 you just have to use the “Replace Design” function and select the correct Mail(R6) Template… and wait…
Have you ever looked whats there in \Windows\System\setup.inf?
Thanks to funny.
Well – I registered some domains a couple of weeks ago and I am still thinking about what to do with them B-)
Actually this are the domains:
Beside thinking about what to do with the domains Iam looking for a reliable ASP.NET hosting provider. As my mate Andreas has some major problem with the german provider “Domainbox” – it seems to be difficult to find a reliable provider that offers ASP.NET hosting to a reasonable price…
One thing that i expect to really “hit the market” is the “HostNix” Campaign from Microsoft.
As far as I know there is really something going on with this campaign that will cut the prices of ASP.NET Hosting and will give bigger Hosters like 1&1 the ability to host ASP.NET Sites like one would expect.
Source 1: Microsoft HostNix Campaign
Source 2: http://www.1und1.info/HostNix
Oh this is soooo crazy… for just $20.000 you get a force-feedback Seat and Wheel that deserves the name:
“The Force Dynamics 301 is a high performance, commercial quality motion system. It is one of a tiny handful of motion simulators designed from the ground up for racing simulation, and its performance far exceeds that of systems costing many times more.”
That’s a remote control. A huge big-ass one of a remote control. But it’s the right way anyhow: It’s unsustainable that you have 3-4 maybe even 5 remote controls in the high-tech-palace some call their living room.
Look, it even has a full customisable color display:
“The Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote puts you in control of your entire audio-video system with just one button. It´s home entertainment the way it should be—simple.
Optimized for complicated HDTV and PVR systems, the Harmony 880 helps you tame tough configurations like switching your television between video aspect ratios depending on the program source. The interactive color display lets you quickly choose a 16:9 ratio for movies and HDTV, or a standard 4:3 ratio for basic television programming.”
Source: Logitech
“When activated it creates a low rumbling hum out of the rear of the handle. A special g-force sensor similar to those used in automobiles to deploy the airbags is used inside our Plasma Saber handle. The sensor measures the amount of force on the handle as its swung and the microprocesser creates a wooshing sound as the saber is being swung! The result is that every time the saber is swung a different wooshing sound is heard which changes depending on how hard you swing it. When its swung agressively the sound it produces is amazingly cool!”
Source 1: http://www.futurehorizons.net/saber.mpg
Source 2: http://www.futurehorizons.net/saber.htm
Today I had some 20 minutes to take a quick look at “American McGee’s Scrapland” – a game that I got for PC (thanks Marc) and Xbox.
Generally it’s a 3D Adventure that incorporates running and talking and flying around in spaceships’n'stuff B-) The graphic is quite impressive…just like the “WOW”-Effect when you first see Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay on the Xbox. I cannot say really much to the gameplay until I played it more… but the first impression was, that it’s slightly different than any other 3rd Person Jump-n-Run-Adventure-Racing Game (like GTA…)… It seems that the directions on the controller are depending on the angle of the camera… if that’s cool or if that sucks, I don’t know at the moment… it was just different.
One cool feature that I saw: You can build your own Custom-Ship. There’s some sort of editor in the game where you can select the parts your ship will be built of.
Source: http://scrapland.gamesweb.com/
On my proceeding mission to evangelise the world with great music I have something for you. It’s even more than just music: it’s a seminal way of buying music. But from the beginning: First the music.
Emma’s Mini: Beat Generation Mad Trick
It’s actually the first album of Emma’s Mini. And it’s not brand new because it came out in 2003. But it’s exactly what I had in mind that very moment I found it. I only heard one song and I bought the ablum straigt away. And I did not regret it. It’s cool. It’s innovative. Fits perfectly in my collection and will fit even more perfect in yours.
Because maybe the fewest will know Emma’s Mini already, here’s a short info on them:
“emma’s mini is a duo based in Seattle, WA. They first started making music together in March of 2002 and in April of 2003 they self-released their first album, beat generation mad trick.
Taking their cue from bands such as lamb, Massive Attack and Moloko, emma’s mini is creating a new and exciting sound, seamlessly blending Suzanne McClean’s rich, lush vocals with Demian Shoemaker’s innovative beats and soundscapes.”
And indeed: Suzannes voice is great… and “soundscapes” is the word I also would have chosen when I should describe the music itself… Infact: Go and hear the complete album. And more important: If you like it, buy it! It’s really worth the money. (what a great transition…)
Emma’s Mini is not under contract at a major label. Infact they are – as far as i know – not under any contract. But they sell their music through Magnatune.
And Magnatune describes itself that way:
“We call it “try before you buy.” It’s the shareware model applied to music. Listen to 356 complete MP3 albums we’ve picked (not 30 second snippets). We let the music sell itself, because we think that’s the best way to get you excited by it. Our selection is intentionally small: we never waste your time with mediocre music. If you like what you hear, download an album for as little as $5 (you pick the price), or buy a real CD, or license our music for commercial use. Artists keep half of every purchase. And unlike most record labels, our artists keep all the rights to their music. No major label connections and no venture capital. We are not evil.”
And they mean it. You can choose how much you would like to pay for the music…from 5 bucks upward…that’s great because you get the music without DRM or any other limitation… You even buy the exploitation right on the tunes… How cool is that!?
Magnatunes recommends a price…but you can change it easily, preferably upward..
after more than 3400km with different cars I’m finally back at home for the weekend and some more days… yehaaa
“btk-on-the-road”-Map of this week
I brought these nifty glowing orbs from CeBIT - and now i’ve found a minute to disassemble one of them:
you have to unscrew only three little screws to open the battery
compartment
the bottom side of the battery compartment
can be pulled out of the white plastic orb easily
Okay that was easy. Now the next step would be to solder an external power supply to the battery compartment so I get rid of the batteries.
Source: The Orbs
We all know that: You just want to download that piece of software but first things first: Please enter your eMail adress. Whuu…do any of my readers actually enter their real eMail adress? – For me I can say: I never do. Iam just entering one of those bogus eMail adresses that everbody knows… like willibutz@aol.de or johndoe@somecity.com… Today I wanted to download the Realplayer… bad mistake. I entered asdfasf@asdf.com as the eMail adress when I was asked. And Real gave me this:
“…is already a customer”
Oh great!… let’s give it another try: asdfasf@asdddddf.com… and voilá:
“… is already a customer”
Wtf?!… I entered another weird adress and it worked… but after some more pages it gave me:
Technical Problems…. argh! This really sucks…
Source: http://www.real.com
The awaited Patch for the german Office:Mac 2004 is available. Just use the Microsoft AutoUpdate Functionality and enjoy
Namenlos notified me that my dasBlog Autotrackback Feature does not work as is is expected to work. The problem was, that everytime you link to the front page of a weblog, dasBlog trackbacks the first article of the weblog.
The Specification says:
“Scan the page contents for embedded RDF. Pages can contain multiple instances of embedded RDF–clients should pick the block whose dc:identifier matches my_url.”
Namenlos made a patch that fixes the problem. You can download it here: BlogDataService.zip (,77 KB)
Source: http://blog.slash-me.net
What a great day. – It’s like easter and christmas at the same time… well sort of: Today a new Community Tech-Preview of Avalon – the upcoming Longhorn GUI API became available and more important: the first Community Tech-Preview of Indigo is available for Download.
“Choosing the best abstractions for building software is an ongoing process. Objects are the dominant approach today for building an application’s business logic, but modeling application-to-application communication using objects hasn’t been as successful. A better approach is to explicitly model interactions between discrete chunks of software as services. Plenty of support already exists for building object-oriented applications, but thinking of services as a fundamental software building block is a more recent idea. Because of this, technologies explicitly designed to create service-oriented applications haven’t been widely available.
Microsoft’s framework for building service-oriented applications, code-named Indigo, changes this. Indigo allows developers who today create object-oriented applications using the .NET Framework to also build service-oriented applications in a familiar way. And to let those applications interact effectively with software running on Windows and on other platforms, Indigo implements SOAP and other Web services technologies, allowing developers to create reliable, secure, and transactional services that can interoperate with software running on any system.”
Source 1: MSDN Indigo
Source 2: Longhorn Dev Center
Yes! Today Sebastian wrote about the fact that many Bloggers are “outsourcing” their media content, for example photos to flickr. He has the same opinion about that as I have:
“Also ich hab gern alles auf meinem eigenen Server und gebe da ungern was von ab. Allein schon wegen der Langzeitarchivierung. Angenommen, ich poste nun alle meine Fotos bei Flickr. Und irgendwann wird das aufgekauft oder geschlossen. Was ist dann mit meinen Fotos? Weg. Bei nem eigenen Server bin ich dafür selbst verantwortlich und kann dafür sorgen, dass da nix wegkommt.”
I cannot understand why everybody is so excited about flickr and furl and stuff. – Like Sebastian I want to know where my stuff is located and what happens to it. I don’t want to get dependant of such services. As long as no technical or practical reasons clearly speak for these servives I don’t get it why I shall use it.
Source 1: http://blog.hagga.net/archives/blogging/000662-fremdkontrolliert.html
Source 2: http://www.flickr.com
“The SXSW MUSIC AND MEDIA CONFERENCE (SXSW) showcases hundreds of musical acts from around the globe on fifty stages in downtown Austin. By day, conference registrants do business in the SXSW Trade Show in the Austin Convention Center and partake of a full agenda of informative, provocative panel discussions featuring hundreds of speakers of international stature. The nineteenth annual SXSW Music And Media Conference and festival will take place March 16 – 20, 2005. “
And you can download the whole thing. It’s 2.6 GB but it’s really worth every single bit.
As on the first day the second day was filled with cool talk dry-runs for the upcoming Student Technology Conference.
Mathias Raacke(University Paderborn) talked about ADO.NET 2.0
Christian Schweda(TU-Munich) talked about Webservices
Martin Saternus (Microsoft) talked in-depth about ASP.NET.
Developia is an online Community focused on Game Development. Alexander Krug and Mathias Kanitz talked about their project and how the Microsoft Student Partners could possibly take part in it.
I finally made it ready to be viewed. Photos by me, Music by Emma’s Mini.
“Emma’s mini is a duo based in Seattle, WA. They first started making music together in March of 2002 and in April of 2003 they self-released their first album, beat generation mad trick. “
Enjoy it.
(edited entireley in Microsoft Movie Maker 2.1 and Picasa2)
NYblog brought this great music to my attention. It’s free and even more important it’s really good.
“Copy Me/Remix Me is the second CD assembled and released by Creative Commons, and is given away at events that feature members of the Creative Commons team. The songs are available for direct download and feature embedded metadata, following our guidelines for placing license information into files.”
Source 1: http://www.nyblog.de
Source 2: http://creativecommons.org/extras/copyremix
I am still screening all the stuff I brought from Neuss and Munich – so I’am going to post some stuff today and tomorrow
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