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Christmas 2005

Christmas just isn't what it used to be. The butterflies that once reigned my tummy when dressing up real nicely for the family feast couldn't handle the arctic tempest that is adulthood. Instead of gifts, I get money. Instead of snow, I see cotton balls. Maybe it's because ever since I got back from Japan, I've been living with my parents again, ripped away from the set currents of time that are supposed to bring me independence and freedom. My daily life = underlined Comic Sans MS, behaviour patterns of an encaged tiger, travels of a cockroach. How I long to set sail again! I'd blow the wind myself. Faraway from routine and the comfort of mediocrity, off to self-fulfilment. Maybe then Christmas would feel like kissing again.

Christmas

To Seiji Kozawa aka Mr. Spam

Almost daily, I receive news from you. Almost daily, I delete your comments. I've left one open for other people to read here. I have no desire to tolerate your pseudo-communist propaganda. It's boring, bad English. Maybe it would be time for you to go outside, take a walk through the mountains, be among real people. Your mind is troubled and doesn't see things clearly. Forget everything you believe in, forget everything you've ever written and start living.

Nipponkan

Andreas and I started a new web-project called Nipponkan - a Vitamine C blend of Japan related links found at del.icio.us, Digg and Flickr. Squish'em & drink'em.

Opera 8.5

Yes, goodbye to Firefox and Thunderbird, hello Opera. Reasons for this policy shift are numerous, but the main ones would be the fact that mail client and browser are integrated in one window, and the lack of major bugs of the likes I kept on struggling with during my already faraway Firefox days. I was a bit skeptic at first because of the alledged lack of tweakability in Opera. Yet, on the contrary, most bookmarklets also work in Opera and this Opera Browser Wiki and especially its tools listing is most definitely an infinite source of surfing pleasure.

Opera, browser

Sony Bravia

Wow. Wow, wow, wow. Andreas sent me this link ages ago, but after switching from Firefox to Opera, watching quicktime movies is no longer a hazardous happening. But, wow, wow, wow. This TV-commercial is just utter beauty. To quote Bravia's viral website:

Sending 250,000 multi-coloured 'superballs' bouncing down the streets of San Francisco may seem the strangest way to do this, but that's exactly what Danish director Nicolai Fuglsig did for the BRAVIA commercial in July this year.

But what really elevates this ad to almost unknown heights is José González' voice and acoustic guitar. A 3(s)0 second audio fragment can be downloaded at the same site, or directly via this link.

Wow, wow, wow.

sony, bravia, JoseGonzalez, Fuglsig