Archives for "May, 2009"

Posted by Markus on 29th May 2009

Wedding Music Video that rules

Brian and Eileen got married, glad for them, but they had Lockdown  projects to do them a wedding video and it’s the perfect way to end the arduous and long work week. I can’t understand why we didn’t do anything like this. Brian & Eileen’s Wedding Music Video. from LOCKDOWN projects on Vimeo. Have a [...]

Posted by Markus on 26th May 2009

Happiness

Happiness comes in many forms, sometimes from things that are totally irrelevant to other people and extremely important for others. For example, I haven’t seen many people as happy lately as my wife and that comes from mainly three things: the sun, she quitting her job and her new hat (it’s very green). I can’t [...]

Posted by Markus on 14th May 2009

The effects of sleep deprivation

I’m sure this topic is pretty close at heart for many people in this day and age, so I thought I would post this short article here as well. Ironically, I have been postponing this post for over a month because of – you guessed it, lack of sleep and choosing whether to write something [...]

Posted by Markus on 13th May 2009

The Trouble with Twitter

Supernews made a “sequel” for their massively popular video Trouble with Twitter and since Twitter has been in the frame constantly now, I thought I’d post the video here for people to catch up what it’s all about. If you already don’t, you can follow me at Twitter as well!

Posted by Markus on 12th May 2009

Swine flu terror show continues

Yesterday I posted some thoughts on Swine Flu and I bumped into Supernews‘ great video on the topic, for your viewing pleasure – here it is: Check Current.tv for more Supernews!

Posted by Markus on 11th May 2009

Swine flu is not what you should fear

It goes by many names: Pig AIDS, Enchiladapocalypse (my personal favourite), Swinefluenza and many others. Of course, we’re talking about SARS Bird flu H1N5 Swine Flu. The media says it’s a pandemic, just like the black death – the plague that wiped a big bunch of knights and fair maidens to the blue yonder. Yeeaaah. [...]

Posted by Markus on 7th May 2009

Our rock stars

Went to see some rock stars doing stand-up comedy at Manala’s English Comedy Club and it was well worth the 7 euro admission and I guess I’ll be spending more time there and I was even asked to go and try out on their English open mic night coming soon… Scary thought. I know. But [...]

Posted by Markus on 3rd May 2009

The week on Varha.com 27th April – 3rd May

Whew, what a week! We had an excellent Vappu weekend with good weather – so if you’ve been boozing for the last three days, here’s something for you to do while lying on the sofa going cold turkey. eBooking it up The amazing tales of eBook reading continues, part two of a continuing series. Good [...]

Posted by Markus on 2nd May 2009

eBooking it up

Nearly a month ago I wrote a post titled eBooks, Kindle and the iPhone about turning my last fortress of old technology books into the electronic. I did have to finish a thousand page book first, taking quite a while since I pretty much only have time to read on my twenty minute commute. After [...]