the sound of silence
boingboing points out a really weird fact: at itunes’ music-store (how do you write that frigging thing? i’ll just stick to ITMS!) you can get songs which consist of nothing than silence. how funny is that: buy silence for 99 cents a pop and buy it with some proper DRM-scheme! so, if you live in the us of a, you can get 6 minutes and 45 seconds (the full playlist at appleturns) of silence for just $8.91. this is really cheap, go and get it, while it’s fresh!
new feature on this blog
if you look in the sidebar then you see a new feature: “last comments”. i borrowed a code-snippet from stuart mutie, adapted it a tiny bit and now you can see the last comments that were posted here on the site. this is my snippet of code, use it and abuse it! <$MTComments lastn="5"$ sort_order="descend"> [<$MTCommentAuthorLink spam_protect="1"$>: <MTCommentBody trim_to="45" remove_html="1" convert_breaks="0"> <a href="<$MTBlogArchiveURL$> <$MTCommentEntryID pad="1"$>.html" title="read the whole buzz">>> </a>]<br /> </MTComments> and i got another one in the working, a hit-parade of most active commenters, coming soon….
nice hint
if you want to be truly impressed by the power of OS X’ graphic capabilities, then you should try out that hint on osxhints, it’s well funny!
new headphones
today my cheapo headphone was killed in an accident (it fell out my bag while i was on the bike and the cord was ripped off, no big deal, it only costed 9.90 a year ago.) so i thought it’s about time to get a real headphone: i went to eschenmoser (my favourite discounter here in bern) and after trying out all the headphone they had on diplay there (ok, i did not really think about getting a headphone for 590 swiss francs) i bought the koss portapro (pictured left) for 99 CHF. This sounds quite expensive, but i have to say it was the best headphone i listened to, the quality in the shop was really impressive. the moment i came out of the shop i started to realize that i bought the real thing . when i plugged the koss into my ipod i knew i was missing something since the moment i bought those cheap headphones i used since a year or so. the sound-quality is at least ten times better :-)
comments don't work
i know the comments don’t work at all. it’s a problem with the update of MTBlacklist, i’m working on it. good night. update: after b. did some of his touch-some-buttons-magic, the permissions on the server were set right, and i could update the two necessary files and everything now works like a charm, keep those comments flowing (i’m working on a funky feature concerning the comments…)
i wonder how long it will take
i thought it’s time that i tidy up my desk a bit 1: 2: i wonder how long it takes until state 1 comes back :-)
ah well then
btw: the photo-shooting i mentioned some days ago happened without me (through some organization hiccup, i was scheduled on wednesday, but then they switched it to thursday so that i couldn’t go). ah, well, in this case no new ipod for me, instead i got me a second digi-cam :-) oh, and arlette mentioned that maybe i can walk in a fashion show on the 20th march, i’ll keep you updated…
boah, this is what i call spamming!
today when i checked my mail i nearly couldn’t believe it, i got 176 new mails in my gna-inbox. first i thought it’s a major hit of mydoom.a, but then i found out, that it’s just a major issue of blog-spam. not too bad, the guy (i suppose it’s a guy, so no offense to all my female readers…) managed to spam each and every entry on my blog. despite i have MTBlacklist installed, all the keywords he used slipped through MTBlacklist’ filter. it’s gonna cost me quite some time do de-spam the whole blog.
music can be such a turn-on
i couldn’t live without music! my itunes is always set on random working through 1304 songs (at the moment), and now it played “club soda” by [thomas bangalter](https://google.com/search?q=%22Thomas Bangalter%22) which is about the grooviest electro-track ever made. i remember the first time i heard that song: it was when i watched a dvd i won in a competition, vanity9. i had the videobeamer of a friend and watched it around two o’clock in the morning nearly on full volume. that track just blew me away. if you click on the link above you get to the site where you can watch some samples of that dvd, if you just want to listen to a sample then click here (from the [d@ft crew](d@ft crew ) samples page)
new track on filewile.com
filewile (andi’s and dejot’s mobile laptop duo) put up a new track for you to download, a remix for scream. i don’t really like scream, so i think i have to listen to the song at least twice, but as you can see, it’s on my playlist. yes, i know that MTAmazon does a bad job at finding the right picture for filewile, but i cannot do anything about it…