Month: August 2006

I’ll get shot for posting this, but I don’t care. I have tons of Top Hits, Hit Box, Dance Train etc compilation cd’s from the early 90s until 1999. Lately I’ve been listening to them a lot and I’m stunned about the quality of a lot of tracks. Back then commercial dance music was original,… Continue reading Old school eurodance still got it

My favorite, free and open source browser just got a new beta release of the upcoming 2.0!

An interesting BBC article about the changing climate here in Europe. Spring was beginning on average six to eight days earlier than it did 30 years ago, the researchers said. In regions such as Spain, which saw the greatest increases in temperatures, the season began up to two weeks earlier. The findings were based on… Continue reading Climate changes shift springtime in Europe

I’ve rearranged the pictures on the site. They can now be found at the top right of the page. Two new albums have been added: “Friends and personal pics” (by no means friends-complete, but if you’re on it …) and “Luberon (France) July 2006”, the pics from our trip to France last month. Enjoy!

Hitman Pro is a collection of spyware removal tools, all in one automated package. Changes in Hitman Pro 2.5.1.0 * Added Spy Sweeper 5 support. Hitman will now, when installed by user, operate Spy Sweeper 5. * Added “Do not ask again” checkbox when removing Quarantine archives. * Added extra report information concerning Spyware Doctor.… Continue reading Hitman Pro 2.5.1.0

To be honest, I can’t complain 🙂

I’ve read over fifteen different articles about Plasma and or LCD-television sets over the last few weeks. I couldn’t agree with one of them. They always make the wrong comparisons. Of course a 42 inch plasma consumes more power than a 27 inch lcd screen, it’s almost twice as big! All these people talking about… Continue reading Plasma / LCD wankers

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. This Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. You should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even… Continue reading K-Lite Codec Pack Full 2.7 beta 1

The New York Times has an article looking at the social implications of technology in the home. Specifically, the problems a spouse can face when their loved one is working in bed. The only piece of technology in our bedroom is a television, that is almost never watched for more than 30 minutes, before we… Continue reading Using your laptop in bed

Microsoft has released Release Candidate 1 of their browser Internet Explorer. RC1 includes some additional enhancements mainly under the hood. The new browser runs on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003. Improvements have been made to performance, stability, security and application compatibility, says Microsoft. “We’ve made some changes that are not user noticeable but… Continue reading Internet Explorer 7 rc1