"Pop star George Michael has been arrested in London on drugs charges after being found slumped at the wheel of his car, according to a British tabloid newspaper report."

Artists.
Most of the ones that have money they throw it all away on drugs. What freaking waste of time, money and health.
Idiots.

1. A *usable* mass-rename utility. After you use Krename and that other KDE app to rename many files at once, and then you use this BeOS one: http://www.pecora.de/pecorename/#Intro_e you finally understand why the users who actually used BeOS loved it. Because as in MacOSX there is no "ugly app" to be found, on BeOS there is no unusable app to be found among the major third party ones. That app was ELEGANT.
2. Again, a usable conversion utility.
3. A screenwriting software, like Final Draft: http://www.finaldraft.com/
4. Video clip manager. No, I am not talking about a VCR/DVD personal database, I am talking about clip manager, just like this: http://aquafadas.com/
5. PDA/phone sync, flash mounting AND automatic internet sharing, like with Activesync. Yes, I know of OpenSync. It is still in its infancy and it doesn't go anywhere any time soon.
6. Good videocam support for AIM, MSN and Y!.
7. Bluetooth on Linux sucks just because most of the things have to be done by hand. KDE got a front-end for a few BT profiles, but it's UI is scattered all around the place. Best UI for Bluetooth: Windcom/Broadcom's on PocketPC.
8. ACPI still sucks.
9. After all these years, there is still not a reliable imovie-like and idvd-like app out there. It seems that the Diva project is near death.
10. Gimp needs rework before anyone can take it seriously. Yes, it must become more photoshop-like. Not because OSS should clone closed source software, but because Photoshop must be doing something right for being the No1 raster app out there for more than 10 years now.

We were discussing with JBQ about getting HDTV for more than a year now, but we decided to go ahead with it only tonight, right after our 4-year old AT&T (now Comcast) cable box died. We ordered not only a new cable box, but also a second HDTV box that is also a DVR (not sure yet if we are getting the 80 or 120 GB version). We will be receiving the new devices on Monday.

Earlier today we bought this system selector and we also connected a PMP/PVR (records on a 30 GB drive), the Neuros Recorder II (records on compact flash and memory stick pro) and the Linux-based TVisto video jukebox (250 GB drive), and we can iterate between all these and other devices (PS2, DVD etc) in a click of a button! Our 55" Sharp HDTV is gonna love it getting all these inputs... ;-)

Of course, it's John Taylor, the bassist of Duran Duran. I wanted to marry him when I was, like, 12. :)
Little I knew back then that he was a cocaine addict and an alcoholic. Supposedly he's clean nowdays.

Why would anyone shoot such beautiful birds like the swans are? Swans mate for life. If you kill one of them, the other one will eventually die or live all alone for the rest of its life (and they can live up to 25 years). It sucks having bloody idiotic humans killing animals just for fun. Hunting was necessary to bring food to the table. But today, humans don't NEED to hunt. There are super markets. And especially today where the wild life has shrinked so much, having these "hunters" going out doing their "sport", is a CRIME against this planet and all its life aboard.

I hope someone shoots their asses. Please bring over a couple hundrend more Dick Cheneys clones and set them free in the woods.

I am watching some Luftwaffe documentaries on History Channel right now and I am amazed at the stuff the Germans came up during the WWII. Amazing crafts like the Focke-Wulf TA183 or the first stealth plane ever. Sure, the Americans and English also made huge strides in technology during the 5-6 years of the war, but the Germans have created some amazing stuff, mostly in airplane tech. What amazes me the most is how productive humans can be and move forward in technology 4x faster than normally, when they are under pressure.

"Revenge attacks against Muslims killed at least 20 people in the southeastern Nigerian city of Onitsha on Wednesday after days of anti-Christian violence killed dozens in the mainly Muslim north. The slaughter raised the death toll from five days of religious riots fueled by political tensions in Africa's most populous country to at least 66, and possibly many more."

This is why Africa is still in the dark ages (no pun indended). I wonder when these people down there will get a fucking grip and stop killing each other. And I am not talking just about Nigeria or just about religious riots. 80% of the African countries are in the same violent page too.

Wake up people! Stop killing each other and take care of your AIDS, food and school problems!

UPDATE: I developed a theory about 'Lost'. :)

Spent the entire weekend watching all 38 episodes of 'Lost'. Before that, I had only watch bits and pieces of the second season, and while I did have an idea of what's going on, I hadn't seen any of the episodes of the first season to have a full picture of the mystery involved.

Well, watching the series from the beginning, I must say that this is the most intense TV show ever made. I always keep saying that "ST: The Next Generation" is the best TV show ever made (seasons 3-6), but I think 'Lost' has surpassed it in a number of ways.

However, I must say, the second season is much slower than the first one, and has only half the intensity. Watching the show back to back, I saw a big difference in the storyline pace on the second season. If you have never watched 'Lost', I highly suggest you buy the first season on DVD.

"New drugs which will allow people to survive on only two hours sleep a day are being developed, scientists have said."

If this was a good thing mother nature would already provide it. STAY AWAY.

I agree 100% with Russell Beattie, I don't see either what's so special about myspace.com. It's just a badly designed site that everytime I get a link to go there I almost throw up.

And so my beloved husband cooked waffles for us tonight! Isn't he a sweetheart? :)

My JBQ does not know what "being romantic" means. He had to look it up on google to find out some not-so-accurate definition of the word and then he was telling ME that I don't have the definition right. JBQ thinks that "being romantic" is about sex, while it is not. Not necessarily anyway.

'Being romantic' means being affectionate, being soft, showing that your partner is your whole world, making small gifts (e.g. flowers), sharing a beautiful moment with your partner (e.g. looking over at the moonlight, hand in hand) etc. There is no sex in the process, not at that point at least. It might LEAD to sex, but being romantic is not about sex. It's about emotions and how you show them.

I am writing this so some baffoons like my husband might be reading this blog and learn a thing or two, as it's Valentine's Day tomorrow and might become handy to them. You never know. ;-)

My JBQ came back from ski this weekend, he fell, he damaged some of his left ribs. Now, I can't grab him and hug him like I usually do when he comes back from work...

I spoke to Nathan last night on the phone, what a cool guy, always in good spirit. He apparently got an iBook G4 recently.

The Plantronics Pulsar 590A arrived today. I will be publishing the review this week on TuxTops.com, but I can say that it would have being the perfect "10 out of 10" Bluetooth product if it was not for a single --and important-- flaw. UPDATE: Published.

I need more sleep. Yawn... ZZZzzzz....

There is no way in hell that I would inject myself with an RFID chip just to go to work. I would prefer to work at MacDonalds instead.

On other news, I finally took the big decision and reformatted my iPod with the FAT32 filesystem. I tried 5 different iPod backup solutions and all had their problems. The one I used at the end was not able to read correctly a bunch of file names during the backup to the Mac disk...

This coming week I will be receiving the Plantronics A2DP stereo Bluetooth headphones. Supposedly this is the best Bluetooth pair ever. Let's see if my search for the best stereo Bluetooth headphones will end.

Lastly, I am feeling a bit low lately. I am a bit sick too, and that makes it worse. Oh, well, a few more decades and then it's all over.

Three new cellphone announcements today, and all three were "music phones". Sure, a cellphone is not as good as a dedicated mp3 player, but you know, that's what killed the PDA too: the competing convergence device is "good enough". That "good enough" factor is what driving the film cameras out of business in favor of bad quality 2 MP digicams. I have said that many times and I will have to say again: the future is *convergence and convenience* and Apple _will have_ to enter the phone market (want it or not).