Fear is holding me back. Fear of all kinds of things. Being more aware of that lately is not helping, really, it mostly adds to the torture. I put things of because I am scared of the outcome, neither positive or negative outcomes are free of results that make me feel anxious. After delaying what [...]
Yeah. He’s not gonna get into the debate team, I know. But he knows what he is talking about. He made this, after all: Yepp, that is Sleeps record/song “Dopesmoker”. One track, the whole album, 64 minutes long. And there you have the whole history of Stoner Rock/Metal/Doom, condensed. Only ministry did it faster, they [...]
Chances are that your computer that you are using to read this is at home, and that it is connected to some sort of network switch our router that supports high speed data transfer rates, much faster than what you are getting through your DSL line or whatever you have to look at silly pictures [...]
I am NOT getting a Mac! So the new router is installed, I have high data transfer speeds without having to put cables through the whole apartment and the new Eee PC is nice and snappy. Time to retire the old one to his new role as a fileserver in a corner of the living [...]
So this exists. Dog owners with young dogs can drive to a pet obedience school, and the trainers will let all the puppies run around the compound to play with each other. And it is every bit as adorable as you imagine. The way I understand it, the point of the whole exercise is to take [...]
Since Google wasn’t much help when I tried to look up my most recent tech support problem I am going to write up the situation and the solution here, maybe it will help some poor soul that is trying to do something similar. My ISP is providing me with a router/DSL-modem combination. The router supports [...]
Would you look at this! iA Writer now with iCloud from Oliver Reichenstein on Vimeo. Now, you either like Macs or you don’t. I myself am quite OS agnostic, but I do enjoy Apple hardware, although the high end pricing has no place in my life right now. What I do have to admire is [...]
My big Christmas present this year were tickets to “Betaville”, a play based on the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick. “Do Androids…” is always brought up as the book that “Blade Runner” is based on. I love the movie, I think it is the best piece of cinema ever [...]
Knowing that you are doing things that are wrong, maybe just even that they are wrong for you, is not enough. I find myself working on auto-pilot most of the time. I keep doing the things that I do, reacting the way that I always have, just to repeat the same mistakes and hurt myself [...]
Wanna know a neat trick? Say you wanna use some kind of discount for goods or services, hypothetically. One that you are not eligible for. Again: hypothetically. And lets furthermore say that to use that discount, you have to provide some kind of verification, like a card, or permission slip. Which you might or might [...]