Unbelievable but true. But it seems as if free speech in the USA gets limited
more and more. As if the USA wouldn’t have enough laws, there’s always
room for one more. This time it’s Middleborough, Massachusetts. A word
as common as other profanities you hear in public for various reasons.

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It seems as if the chinese people are planing to top Burj Khalifa which is
currently the talles building on earth with it’s 826 metres height. The
company BSB (Broad Sustainable Building) which was also involved in
building a 30 storeys tall hotel in only 15 days, plans to raise the planned…

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Nothing has been more spectacular in the past months than the lawsuit
against kino.to-founder. Kino.to, being known as a site that allowed direct
download of actual movies and series without the need of a client such as
UseNext and the like has been closed. The imprisonment of the founder…

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What looks promising at first seems too good to be true. However the idea or
concept to bring touchscreen-operated devices to the visual impaired may be
weird too? Why would someone use a touchscreen-device if he/she can’t see
what is on it. Okay, the idea is cool but the practical usage is not yet proven.

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If you ever thought, kitchen devices, such as fridges are the only thing that are
connected to the internet, well, think again because AGA has given an oven the
functionality to be operated from the web. Although I see some sort of risk in
this (despite virae that may attack the OS interface of it), it may be a cool gadget.

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As you might have noticed, I made some changes to my blog. My blog is active
and living. And with it, also the techniques usable to this date will also take place
here. As you probably noticed when using an outdated browser, you will see a
green ribbon show up to update your browser. See my blog yesterday, why!

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The Euro is not yet about to come to a rest as it seems. Now Spain has shown
signs that their biggest bank “Bankia” is in need of approximately 20 billion
Euros to haul all the desolate hypothecary credits it has issued in the past.
On the other hand: Thousands of angry “home owners” who will loose home.

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Maybe it sounds funny when you go to a wash saloon and read a sign, saying
“Junior Wash – $2.95” – Especially when you have your kid with you. But I
don’t think it’s a wise idea to put the kid into the washing machine just for a
joke. Alone because the machine is auto-starting when you close the door.

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It seems as if the troubles around Diablo III aren’t going to stop. Have recent
logon problems already gone for good, there’s the next issue upcoming. More
and more people are reporting their skilled and hard-played characters to be
stripped down (=their account being hacked) without having any clue, why!

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This question is easily answered: You don’t know what you do and how things
turn into weapons if improperly used. In Singapore a taxi driver and a taxi
user have died in a horrible but also spectacular crash. The driver, a young
rich chinesse guy totaled his rare Ferrari 599 GT… and lost his life too!

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After several deaths and frustrating champion mob groups, I decided to join
a random group in order to do Diablo. Even with L4 this foe is a real hard nut
to crack. You’ll need lots of tactics to beat him. So if you’re less than L36,
don’t even think about facing Diablo! You won’t survive this challenge!

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Act III was really challenging. Died several times due to the big number of
mobs rusing towards me. However the Boss was quite easy to slay. Liked the
tower levels where you fight your way towards the boss. The big tortured
creatures… just scaring. The atmosphere: demonic and mystic!

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So the game develops an interesting taste when you move along with friends
decimating the numerous foes that follow you and stop you from reaching
Diablo. But it’s not as easy as usual. The foes get stronger with each party
member that joins your game. So no more standalone-bashing.

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So there we are: Act II – Into the desert. Gosh, how I remember my ways
from Lut Gholein back and forth. Memories… – The Skeleton King was not as
difficult as the Butcher who slained a good friend of mine and me… several
times. Can be annoying especially when you take the boss down to 10% of life.

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So… the first quests have been played and one thing to say: It’s a nice scenery
to run through and the fights are sort of… challenging. Especially when you
meet some champions which have ways more HP and additional enchants
that make them more resistent against you or even grill your char in no time!

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Sanctuaria is open to everybody. Since midnight (european time) you can
officially log on to the game server and play Diablo III. Since yesterday 5pm
the installer no longer refused to install. The installation of the game took a
mere 30 minutes on a classic notebook and 10 minutes on a highend system.

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This is a wonderful example why you shouldn’t use automated patterns to
generate e-mail adresses for example. In this case, a german company has
faced severe problems and moch more worse: The email system there seems
not to accept any changes to that generated addresss…

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I already mentionned, that I like Timelapse videos. This time, it’s from the
construction site of the Freedom Tower in New York where a camera has
recorded pictures of the construction over 8 years. They are now finally put
together into a 2 minutes long timelapse video. The result is amazing!

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So that’s it! Time to take the train back to Bern, time to get back to work and time
to wait another 365 days to celebrate with Pianoman. Now it’s time to face the
“enemy”, called Deutsche Bahn, again and hopefully coming home in time. But I
am confident that everything will go well as this train is operated by the SBB…

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…or: An instruction how to learn to hate the service of Deutsche Bahn. It all
began with a planned trip to Munich from Bern. No problem. Just take the
14:02 train from Bern to Zurich HB and then switch trains to Munich Central
station. 5h42m travel time and less hassle with train switching… WRONG!

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So finally I decided to updated my rig with a SSD. The reason? Well, although
my rig fired up in under one minute, I thought: Hey, can I give it some more
power? So the SSD was the next object to put on my wishlist. But wait, there
was something when I tried to give my netbook an update…

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So it’s official! Five big providers have been forced by the High Court of Great
Britain to lock access to the famous Pireate bay site, a site containing links to
torrent files that allow establishing network links to a specific file among
various clients. An example for de-centralized file distribution.

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It looks grim for Samsung’s most actual TV devices that also offer network
capabilities and streaming. It seems as if there’s a way to completely defeat
your TV set or blu-ray player simply by placing invalid chars into a control
data packet from Android and iDevices. The result: A non-working device!

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So there we have the Beta invite and with it, the access to the upcoming
sequel to Cataclysm. So what’s ahead of us? The 4th Extension of WoW and
with it, a complete new experience and a brand new race to fight it’s way thru
Azeroth. What makes it worthwile to play? A short experience report.

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So there it is. The most-expected game of Blizzard for the last 18 months. And
the first impressions are somewhat awesome! So what did I expect from
Diablo III? At first: The simplicity and the cool Hack’n’Slay-style I used to
have in Diablo II (LoD). Second: Cool graphics. The result? Read more now!

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I am just lazy today. So nothing special will be posted. Sorry for the lack of
information if you have expected a post today. I’ll try to post some news
tomorrow again. Have fun and a good week’s start. If you’re in luck to have
vacation, then enjoy the free time.

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Well, Friday the 13th seems to be the horror for quite a lot of people! For
others, it means to be a lucky day. And others again feel sorta invigorated
at especially this day. So what’s the myth behind Friday 13th? Let’s dive into a
bit of history and research understand the different views on this special 13th.

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Unbelievable, but true: The italian plumber Mario is now over 30 years
dominating the gaming scene. And it doesn’t look like as if he gets tired at all!
So when did you get in touch with Nintendo and it’s world-famous mascot that
brought Nintendo an immense breakthrough? Watch the video to find out!

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Well, so there we are. Holidays, and no sun in sight. Typically for when you’re
off work. It cooled down 12 degrees in Bern within the last 12 hours. And
when I woke up I had to notice that snow was falling. At first I thought
“There must be something wrong” – But when I went outside, I felt the cold air.

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So… April fools day is over. Have you been fooled? And how? I didn’t notice
much of a change and the day went by rather quiet! maybe the fact that this
year, April fool has been on a sunday, that’s why not much has happened…
At least there were some April fools but you probably didn’t hear much.

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The Samsung Galaxy S3 is extremely anticipated. However Samsung has not
yet given up on the Samsung Galaxy S2. It seems as if this older model has
also received an Upgrade and pretends to have been refurbished. In parti-
cular it means the i9100 has become an i9100G. So what’s new?

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So you think your private data stored on your smartphone is secure? No one
can get access to your phone anyways? You have an antitheft-system active?
Well good to know that you seem to have taken all precautions to stop others
to access your smartphone and it’s data. But did you know that’s not enough?

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