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the first official screening of “SUICMC04 - The Movie” will be held on friday, the 17th december in the bar splendid palace from 7pm to 11pm or so. we will show the movie twice, once around 7.30pm and around 21.30pm.

you’re kindly invited to come, the event is open for all, you don’t have to be a messenger or have helped at the SUICMC04 to show up!

(click on the image to watch the trailer…)

since the upgrade of my MT-installation the integration of kungtunes an my blog was a bit flaky, i got an email whenever my itunes changed a song. this was just too much.

i’ve been looking for another solution to post my playlist on the web, but couldn’t find a good one, until i stumbled over this picture on the (excellent) command-shift-3-group on flickr. in the extensive list of programs mentioned was the itunes watcher . after a bit of googling i found the site and installed it (it’ s bit quirky, since it’s a script which needs to be configured and compiled).

if you’d like to see me in a suit, then you might want to check out my polyball foto set on flickr. but be warned, there are some really cheesy pictures in that set…

rome finished the movie of the suicmc04 , and if you haven’t seen it already , you might want to take a look at the trailer (5.3mb .mpeg-file). we will try to organize a screening for all the helpers and other interested people, i’ll inform everybody when things become more precise.

just a short blurb to inform you: i didn’t win a million , it was someone else .

everything will stay as it is (or so…)

but at least i was on stage with mona vetsch , which is not far away from winning a million.

the client i use to post pretty much all the post here is now an official member of the pieces of software that i actually bought.

i’m more than happy with it and forked over those 18$ to adriaan to help him to go on with the development of this magnificent piece of software. i’ve been using kung-log for a long time, but ecto is just ways better. hence my blog also features a new button on the far bottom:

pretty much everybody is giving them away, but in case you still need an invitation to sign up with gmail (google’s 1gb-email service) i’ve got six five three no invitations to give away. they’re all gone, maybe i’ve got some more to give away soon, i’ll post it here…

next weekend there are elections here in switzerland. i’m not overly politically interested, but i think voting is a must. so i heavily rely on tools to help me make the decision. i’ve already mentioned both of them here (smartvote and votez.ch ).

smartvote enables you to generate your political profile, the so called smartspider. and then it matches your spider to all the candidates and proposes you a list of people to choose. votez is another tool, where all the different initiatives are explained with the pros and cons, so that any normal person is able to understand it and vote accordingly.

maybe you’ve seen the ubiquitous ads for the american express bluecard, promoting the link win-a-million.ch .

since my credit card provider offered me to switch to blue for free that’s what i did and i also checked out the bluegame they made to promote their new credit card

the game consisted of 5 levels, most of them were - mildly said - trivial.

i know a guy from nothing.ch , the crew behind the programming of the bluegame (we play ultimate frisbee together). in the training on thursday we talked about the bluegame, because he saw me in the high-score list. i told him, that i thought the stuff was really easy and i only stuck to it, because i thought the later levels would be a bit more demanding. he told me funny stories about people who called, because they could not sign up for the game, or weren’t able to log in to it, and other peekaboo…

this is by far the funniest set of pictures i’ve seen in a loong time!

[via joi.ito and urs ]