Category: Tech.
Vista is here, we all knew that. I was even thinking about buying it but then I read about Microsofts license policys which are outrageous! I can’t believe we customers are just going to swallow that kind of treatment! So I decided to stick it to the man.
Of course, sticking it to the man is never that easy. Vista needs to be activated by an authorized serial key within 30 days of it’s installation. There is a crack which makes it possible to extend that period to 120 days but after that time you’re dead in the water. You either need to reinstall it or go buy it - that’s the bottom line. There are some cracks out there on the net but I’ve gotten none of them to work.
Reaching that deadily 120 mark isn’t however the end of the line, it turns out. I found out that even when …
Seems like I’m headed for the Glastonbury Festival 2007 in the UK June 22-24. See you all there 
Category: Video and Seriously.
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One would think that all this fancy modern technology we have today would not only bring crappy webcam videos on YouTube to the people, but also say, make rigging elections and cheating in politics more difficult? Most major software companies today put millions on making computing safer and fiddling with computer systems more difficult - but that doesn’t really mean squat when some key systems in the US for example are still not protected enough. Systems that should be protected because their safety can be decisive importance for the future of one of the most powerful countries today and indeed the whole world.
Ok, so we all now that Bush jr. got into office by rigging the elections back in 2000. It was so obvious that many people all over the world were outraged at how a country forcing democracy on the rest of the world wouldn’t even be able to conduct fair elections itself. But somehow the cheater remained at his post. In 2004 it was time again. By this time everyone knew that the elections weren’t going to be fair and indeed the cheating was done more discreet this time. So again, people didn’t care… at least not enough. But what many people don’t know even today is how close it really was! By slightly over dramatizing one could say that the US presidential election in 2004 was decided by little more than 500 votes.
The official GTA IV website launched today and there’s a countdown which hints at a trailer coming out 29.3! Can’t wait to see what they’ve cooked up this time!
Category: Entertainment.
Composer Thomas Newman is widely known for his soundtracks used in such awesome movies as American Dream and Finding Nemo, and series like Six Feet Under. His music is great not only because it ties beautifully to the actual visuals and story, but because you can also listen to them as they are. It’s simply wonderful music to listen to.
But there’s another composer who deserves to be added to the same (rare) category as Newman. And that is Bear McCreary. His most notable work is in the completely awesome Sci Fi series Battlestar Galactica, ie the remake of it. If you haven’t seen an episode from BSG yet them it’s you I’m sorry for. Do yourself a favor and watch it as soon as you can. If for nothing else, then for the music - because the music in BSG, composed bu McCreary is unheard of in television history.
Besides the visuals, the score was one of the first things that struck me as very original in BSG. I’d simply never heard anything like it. It ranges from Japanese style taiko percussions to middle eastern style flute and rythms to to classical scores on par with some of the greatest composers in classical music history.
Here follows a selection of Bear McCreary’s more classically themed tunes
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Playlist: Passacaglia | Rosslin Confesses | Worthy of Survival | The Shape of Things to Come
Hint: to skip forward, move the slider to the very end of the track