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Star Wars Wiki

Wookiepedia, a Wiki solely dedicated to the Star Wars universe! How nice to see that some people have already been very busy filling the database with tons and tons of background info on Star Wars related things. Ever wanted to know how Bossk’s ship looks, why Yuuzahn Vong are such a fearsome species or what [ READ MORE ]

Biiig biiig ad!

The coolest commercial I’ve seen since a long time …. http://www.bigad.com.au/! No, it won’t hurt your system, despite the security warning that shows up eventually, but this is so freakin cool! [ READ MORE ]

Stuff on my cat!

Cats are just cool! They are most independent from us humans but sometimes they let us get closer to them. If that is happening, it is also sometimes possible to use them as a storage space for all kinds of things from pizza boxes to babies! Yes, cats are actually more trustworthy [ READ MORE ]

Have time will travel!

Found this classified a while ago in a BBS signature … … And damn I thought that’s the guy I saw last month when I traveled back into 1629 by modifying my microwave oven into a time machine! You can never say that there are too many boring people in the world! [ READ MORE ]

Space smugglers hobby room

We’ve been to the Star Wars Science and Art exhibition in Ueno yesterday. It was held in the Basement halls of the National Science Museum and I can tell it was worth the visit! They had tons of models present which were used in the movies, from the Millenium Falcon and Star Destroyers to AT-AT walkers [ READ MORE ]

Thing on a spring

… or things in the spring! I got my new rig set up finally! Almost done with installing all the stuff that I need for a convenient usage. This is what came out finally… CPU: Pentium4 3GHz 800MHz FSB Motherboard: P4C800-E Deluxe (excellent board!) [ READ MORE ]

European Vintage Computer Festival

“Let us return to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when geeks were geeks and floppies were really floppy.” European Vintage Computer Festival [ READ MORE ]

Graphical User Interfaces – When will they be substituted?

Though GUIs did not really change over the past 20 years and seem to become a little bit outdated today everybody wonders what will be a better way of communicating with our computers. Listening to the latest Mac-rumors “Spoken Interface” is expected to be implemented within the next major update of Mac OS X [ READ MORE ]

Daily computer jumble

This was how I’ve felt when I entered the Ginza Apple Store some days ago! It was like “Hey everything is nice and easy and good” … but in a strangely artificial and rather canting way. I’ve opened my not so bad and somewhat stylish flash portfolio on one of the apples with lamp-screen and went [ READ MORE ]

Transpacific Hardwares

It’s about time! We’ve finished a rather big job by now and it’s time for some coddling! I’m still loitering around with my outdated AMD 1.2GHz with yesterdays hardware so I prepared to buy components for assembling a new system. I will go with a Pentium this time, hoping to have not [ READ MORE ]

640 Kilobyte ought to be enough for anybody

… was a quote from Bill Gates from 1981 according to the book Computers – An Illustrated History from Christian Wurster which I had a sneak look into some days ago in a well sorted book shop and which her majesty now surprisingly presented me as a birthday gift. This book covers the whole history of [ READ MORE ]

The cool days of the Fembots

Recently I’m tending to shun most of what runs nowadays on TV! While today in the twothousands all kinds of TV series theme seems to be only about sex and interpersonal relations, they were all about humor, sarcasm and worse sci-fi in the nineties and even more back in the eigthies and seventies about action and [ READ MORE ]