A Day in Paradise

Quick review on Teeth of the Tiger followed by an update on other books you shouldn’t read…
Get it here!
And you gotta listen to the VERY end!
PS. the book that sucked was Digital Fortress… also vote and comment over on Podcast Alley

DivX Video: Download DivX Software and the DivX Player
It’s happy birthday everyone month… Opera, google, now DivX. In commemoration of the birthday, DivX is offering their bundle as a free download!
The cover letter is the best part! Feel free to tell your family, spam your friends, update your blog and mention it in your podcast

Freighter Cruise & Travel - Freighter Travel is our specialty…
This is the freighter ship company that Emannuel Goldstein took from Tokyo to the US.
I’ve gone from Denmark to Argentina and then back (via Brazil and Romania), and then gone from Poland to Finland… all very enjoyable experiences. Must do it again when I have a […]

See Podcaster Details on PodcastAlley.com — The place to find Podcasts
Go ahead, comment, vote…. pretty nice site

Switzerland BABY! Not checking any email, IMs, IRC (ok, you might catch me there)…
Will take plenty of pictures and post them somewhere!
Later folks… if you guys don’t have anything better to do head on over to UtterlyBoring for your daily fix of amusement.

How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary
To be a good programmer is difficult and noble. The hardest part of making real a collective vision of a software project is dealing with one’s coworkers and customers. Writing computer programs is important and takes great intelligence and skill. But it is really child’s […]

L - Athens Monitors - Features
This is totally from the “Add-it-to-my-wishlist” department.
You’ll also need to add a new desk since, there is no way this beast will fit on my desktop.

Well, at least they will when I come up first in google for Elephant Finder. It is not that bad a site, but it really sucks that they decided to resort to spamming as a marketing tool.
Especially for a niche market, the only place spamming will get you is in the can! Sorry!

52 Projects: A Not-To-Do List
A good list of things _NOT_ to do before starting on a project … oops, one of them is Do not post to your blog.
Best move on…
As seen on 99 little bugs

witz.org: Natalie Portman is bald, smoking cigarettes
Pictures probably taken during the filming of V for Vendetta, in which she is shorn. I can’t wait for Vendetta to come out, they’ve pushed back the release date (rumored because of the London bomings), but hope they don’t buckle in and change the storyline as well. Would be […]

‘Exorcism of Emily Rose’ is surprise runaway hit - Sep. 11, 2005
“The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” a courtroom drama loosely based on true events, scared the demons away from the historically lackluster late summer box office by registering the third-biggest opening for a September, according to studio estimates issued Sunday.
Looks interesting… watched Red Eye on […]

Apple - iPod nano
Actually I want an iRiver for the recording, but the nano is pretty friggin cool. Someone should hack it into a universal remote control. Why do those things have to be so friggin big.
Other than the form factor, there isn’t much in these things. Sure they look cool, but they cost […]

Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19
Can you Believe it! It’s talk like a priate day again!
Time flies!

Tomorrow is our extra special Usergroup meeting where we will be hosting the eZ Systems/Zend/MySQL Roadshow UG meeting.
All PHP/MySQL users in the area are invited. The entrance is free, but our room has limited space, so first come, first serve! After the meeting there will be beer, there should be plenty of space… and beer.
Same […]

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