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Genius Fun

I love the new “genius” feature of iTunes 8. On my to do list is an genius playlist xml->rss export thingie for gargleblaster. But hey… there are more things on my todo-list :)
But this morning I hit the genius button for “The Mercy Seat” of Nick Cave&the Bad Seeds. And considering my iTunes playlist has around 12.5k songs in it…sometimes the music I hear is very surprising.

Like this morning: X Offender by Blondie!
Hell. I didn’t even know I had that album…but I absolutely loved the song.
But now I am wondering what the connection is with The mercy seat :p

Below is the complete playlist…groovy baby :)

Sometimes Rebooting hurts

snif… I have to reboot this box because there will be maintenance in the serverroom’s powersupply.
There goes a beautiful uptime :(

iPhone Screenies

I have my iPhone now for 3 weeks…and I am more and more falling in love with it. I hardly use my iMac anymore at home. All my email checking, browsing and even some commandline work I do with my iPhone. And with iSquint I convert avi’s etc to the iPod compatible mp4 and have great fun watching the wire season 1 now on my iPhone.
But…1 thing I didn’t know was that it’s possible to make screenies of your iphone :)
how?

press the home button and sleep button simultaneously for 1 second and release.

You see the screen flashing, and the screenie has been added to your album roll in the photo.app. And the best thing…it doesn’t have your greasy fingers all over. yay me!

Start2Run

Running with Evy Gruyaert is still fun. Almost finished with the 0-5km podcast series. Below is lesson 26 which I ran yesterday. Tomorrow the final lesson and next week I will have to run 3 times 30 minutes to complete the series. After that I will continue with the 5-10km lessons.

Hailstorm in Germany

On my returntrip from Germany, I rode right into this hailstorm.
Pretty impressive, even while it lasted for only 3 minutes or so.