For once it is not a private person being sued by the big media labels for
copyright infringement such as illegally downloading movies or music.
This lawsuit is about Warner Brothers being sued for using the “Nyan
Cat” and “Keyboard Cat” trademarks in the Scribblenauts game!

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And the crowd is cheering as the new WordPress version comes online
without great hiccups. Some plugin here, some addon there that didn’t
run as intended, but soon the average posting business will set up again,
still takes some time to adapt to the new system… *sic*

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…or: Why for heaven’s sake spend 2’300 CHF on a coffee machine? Well… let’s
start with the story of ugly-tasting coffee and what I’ve tried so far. At work we
have a Schaerer coffee machine that makes good coffee, real good coffee! But
for home use, this machine is a tad too big and too expensive (7’250 CHF).

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As you can see, my blog is also using the Social Media Widget. However it’s
not version 4.0 which has been considered a SPAM machine. It is said to
add “Pay Day Loan”-SPAM by injecting third-party PHP code, which is
loaded from an external source. The fact that the programmer changed…

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What sounds like a bad joke or a nerd watching too much SciFi series, is
the hard truth. A guided laser system (LaWS as the US Navy calls it) is able
to seek and destroy potential dangerous flying objects. Tested with a drone
the ship burnt the birdie down into the ocean.

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You know, I was complaining about winter in the past. The temperature
has already risen over zero although 3 degrees Celsius aren’t that warm
either. But what bothers me most is the everyday-gray that is dominating
the whole weeks for the last three months. Where’s spring and the sun?!

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Sweet jimminee… the day started at 7 a.m. for me today and before you
can look, the day’s over. No time for anything. Hurrying home to fetch my
dart gear and fight another tournament today. So there’s noting much
to see here today except a funny video a good colleague mailed me earlier.

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And some time for Netsspark to relax and gain Power for the upcoming work
time. Wish you a nice easter holidays and relaxing days. Enjoy the days off and
don’t forget to set your clocks tonight one hour forward! Summertime’s coming!
At least from the calendar side as the weather isn’t spreading any warm feeling!

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…or when trains fly by with 400 km/h (250 mph)! The red arrow (the
translation for “frecciarossa”) as the new italian high-speed train is called
is supposed to reach 400 km/h albeit the operational speed is 360 km/h.
(215 mph). But as you can see the development never stops.

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So there we have it. The new SimCity didn’t have a lucky start. Time for EA to act
and give all loyal buyers a free game for the initial problems, SimCity was prone
to. Okay, the mail from EA tells it is very easy to claim the free game. Just log in
to origin, launch the “Featured tab” and grab the desired free game.

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Many of you have probably seen Minority Report, an interesting Sci-Fi
movie about police units using future-telling individuals to predict crime
before it happens. What is base for a good Sci-Fi movie in 2006 seems to
become real in Seattle, WA. Predpol, that’s the name of the software used.

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Lions are known to be wild beasts that can rip a fully-gron man into pieces
with ease. But what happens if a lion grows up in a human family and then
released into wilderness after many, many years? This video shows: Even
wild beasts have a memory and remember whom they can trust!

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At 7:13p.m. the wait was finally over. The Vatican has a new pope! Pope Francis I.
has officially been elected as the new pope of the catholic church. Jorge Mario
Bergoglio (⁕17.12.1936) is the official successor of Pope Benedict XVI who has
officially receded from office on February 11th, 2013.

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Returning from CeBIT not only brought me new knowledge about today’s
technologies but also took me down for some cold… Now I have to hit the bed
for some another days to get well again. I am sorry for the missing posts of
March 9 to 11 – they’re queued as they’re not yet ready. Will work on them later!

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There I finally arrived at Hannover and finally at Celle, to meet up with Pianoman
and his girlfriend. The evening was just great to meet up with Pianoman’s cousin
and her family. Seeing Celle makes me a bit remembering Berne as well. The old
town is just lovely with all these half-timbered houses. Just impressive to look at!

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Home owners in Russia, watch this and be advised: A missing mailbox can
cause you lots of trouble paying glaziers for repairing your door and your
insurance company wouldn’t be too happy either. However this mailman
couldn’t deliver the mail. So a new mailbox has been created instantly.

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Harsh times that are ahead of the U.S. economy. While the last months have
helped many companies to catch ground again, it seems as if this time’s over
and bad times ahead again. The reason for this? The active Sequester Plan.
But not only this plan is responsible for the upcoming desaster.

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Being cut in line on the road is a big annoyance, especially
when you drive a bigger vehicle that isn’t capable of breaking
instantly. A bus driver from Zelenograd decides for his
passengers and simply crashes into cars cutting his line.

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I am sorry that the news had a longer time until release as I was ill and hardly
used the PC. So that’s why all messages have been released today. Hopefully the
cold won’t catch me again. Wasn’t nice at all laying in bed freezing like hell tho
the room itself was warm. That’s Wintertime! The possibility to get ill is there!

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New patents may point to an idea of Apple to create an iWatch. But what exactly
could this gadget do? Will it be an iPhone reduced to the size of a watch or will
the iWatch only a smaller edition of an iPod? As integrated circuits allow smaller
and smaller devices, the iWatch might be a Mini-iPhone!

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Yes, I know, it’s boring to read again about some copyright infringement.
And yes I am also bored, too. But maybe this is a way to show why money
still rules the world and why people are willing about to give up their soul
for something that usually isn’t worth fighting for.

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Ever wondered how solid wood can be? Well, an austrian architects team has
planned an office building with 24 metres height and 7 floors over ground.
The building today is now operating as usual. Not only is the construction of
this building less CO₂ emmiting, it also is of regeneratiing materials.

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The USA and Barack Obama have ratified an agreement to raise the debt
limit as long as needed without any upper limit. This way, the USA is trying
to ensure it’s full liquidity. However there’s some stale taste with this as the
actual 16.4 trillion DS$ debt equals 100% of the annual US economic power!

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In New York, one of the biggest train station is now 100 years old and still
withstanding old and new age. With 67 tracks of which no far-distance trains are
leaving, it is for sure the biggest suburb-connecting train station. Opened on
February 2nd, 1913 at exactly 12:01AM it marked a new train traffic era.

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China is one of the countries with the highest poulation density. But not
only poor people are living next to each other on small room. A new bulit
villa village in Lingshui, Hainan (China) has been built in only two years.
Over 1000 new villas are ready to be rent by wealthier citizen of China.

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So Tina Turner finally has decided to get the swiss passport and also become
swiss citizen. Living for over 20 years in Küsnacht (Zurich), Tina Turner has
enjoyed the decent respect she got in Switzerland. No picturehunters at her
doors waiting for a shot. And swiss fans didn’t bother her every time.

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The fate of Apple being big, is better to se than ever before. While Apple has
presented outrageous good balances, shareholders still punish the company
by selling shares in masses. The result is a 10 percent loss within one day!
So while the Apple share valuated 514.18 USD close on Wednesday…

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Travelling can be dangerous. Especially into regions not as evolved as the
modern industrial states. In this case, a british housewife has to fear the big
consequences of smuggling drugs. What’s perfidious, is the fact that the
woman got oppressed to smuggle the drugs as her children were threatened.

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Not one year without new gadgets for technic enthusiasts. So is 2013 also no
exception and the first gadgets have already been shown on the CES or at
least announced. So let’s start: The Huawei Ascend Mate, a smartphone-tablet
with a 6.1 inch display will hit stores approx in March 2013.

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So while the order of my new Horizon box has disappeared, I have reordered it
and with it the fast internet line Fiber Power 150. While the Horizon Box is still on
way, my new bandwidth seems to have already been applied. Puzzled to see
that my downloads boosted to roughly 17 MB/s I checked my line for speeds.

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Impatience. Companion of our modern time. Rush hour, hurry, stress… they
all belong to the impatience that causes lots of trouble. The harmless things
are barging, the harming things range from some pain over to severe injuries
up to death as the worst thing to happen because of impatience.

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The iPhone 5 was not the big hope Apple has seen it initally. Sales of the
next-Gen iPhone are rather mediocre. And this has already been reflected
by the Apple stock shares as they have lost about 20% of their highest value.
Apple has to do something to be back on tracks. Is the iPhone 5S the answer?

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