Well… As it got boring to checkmate the AI at medium setting over 100 times, I decided
to challenge myself by playing a round at extreme setting and try to checkmate him.
I tried often by playing as defensive as possible and mostly ended up checkmated as the
AI always slashed my pawns and then picks on my main figures one by one…

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The Fight, Apple vs. Samsung (or vice versa) is going into the next round.
As Samsung has officially stated that they plan to force a sales-ban in
South Korea, the chances are good for a bloody fight. It seems, that
revenge is a nice tool for Samsung as Apple has recently done likewise!

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You know… I really appreciate good devices, good design and technical perfection.
Apple is one of those companies who come up with really good gadgets that enrich your
life. But when you read about something to come up in the future all day and everywhere
then I can’t help to think that it is a shameless and cost-efficient promotion.

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Well… looks like the summer is slowly passing as today it was rather cold. The weather
forecasts brought up that in the eastern parts of switzerland, snowfall border has
lowered to a mere 1000 metres above sea level. This meant chaos at Gotthard- and
Sustenpass (which connect central switzerland with Ticino / Italy) where travellers

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The nature always has some strange yet spectacular things to offer. One of them
might grow on the hands of Chris Walting, a 45-years-old female singer from
Las Vegas. She has officially entered the Guinness Book Of Records when she
had her nails measured in New York. Her nails have grown for 18 years now!

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Well today, there are many sports events that are rather strange or new
to us. Yesterday I found this video showing men who seem to have a rather
odd “olympic” discipline: Namely to be the fastest to flush the nasal cavity
with a gallon of water by sucking the water in with the nose, then flush it out.

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The mid of this week is now reached. It ain’t over yet but to sweeten
the way thru the day, I give you something to laugh or marvel about.
So enjoy the day, begin it the easy way and make it thru the day with
no frustration or pain. The weather doesn’t look that good at all.
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There are many strange goodies for us in stores. Some are rather useless, others are
just bizarre, another ones are ridiculous and again some are dangerous. The story
today shows that even common goodies in the household can become a dangerous
item. In this case a 38-years-old british man with two children died of such one.

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I finally found something on TV that’s worthwile watching. Despite the fact that
most of all tv series on TV are crap and that they often garnish these with two
to three blocks of commercial ads. Alone this fact, that on 45 minutes of a TV
series is expanded to 60 minutes because of ads, keep my TV mostly off!

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Today I tried to apply the so-called Scholar’s mate move on the AI. You don’t know what
Scholar’s mate means? It means, setting the opponent checkmate within 4 moves
ignoring any threat of him. As this move is very basic, you won’t see professionals
playing that move in any way. Amazing how quick the AI was beaten!

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Well… remember, when I beat the AI (or let’s say, the iPhone)  with six queens?
You also remember that I stated, that it would be almost impossibe to gain 7
queens and then bone the AI? Finally I managed to do this also but it was not
easy at all. Took me quite some time to do so and not on easy setting!

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…or let’s say, 10 bitter facts, why the U.S. economy is still in big trouble. The U.S.
economy is by far more in debt as most of the people want to believe. Unemployment
is above 20% when you bring in the long-term unemployed. Myret Zaki has stated 10
facts that proove to her that the worst is yet to come.

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You know StreetView, and all the negative news about Google making pictures of the
whole surrounding. probably also pictures, one does not want to see online. Like
houses, cars and their licence plates other identifiable objects or also the view into
one’s home. Also crime scenes have been shot accidentally…

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Today, it is 10 years since the attack on the twin towers in New York and the
Pentagon. It was the most horrible situation, the USA had to face. The attack
cost 2977 people their lives. When the planes crashed into the
towers, no one before would have expected anything like that!

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So, finally a post of my thoughts about today’s communication methods. 15 years ago,
the communication methods were rather limited as cell phones and their price plans
were too expensive. The Internet was still in it’s development process and services like
ICQ and the like were not well-developed or ready for mass communication.

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Bad news for people in Europe who wanted to get hands on Samsung’s new tablet,
the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Today the german court has dismissed Samsung’s case
against the sale prohibition of the Galaxy tab. The court reviewed the complete
case and finally found that Samsung did not hold the necessary distance to Apple

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Well, you certainly have heard about the rumors that came up when Switzerland had
their people vote for or against the minaret (the small tower where the Muezzin shouts
of when he calls for the prayers of his landsmen). As the swiss people voted “No” on the
minaret, the whole islamistic union was against Switzerland and the swiss people.

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How do these three relate to each other, you may ask? Well, today I
stumbled over an interesting video again! But before telling about the
details on this video, the epilogue why that video has been made and
what’s the idea behind. The man who shot the video had a talk with Putin.

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Well, taxes are good for all kinds of things for the public to be financed. So that
everyone takes his part in the Finance, he has to pay taxes, taxes like V.A.T.
income tax, tax on alcoholic beverages, tax on tobacco, gambling, social tax
and all other taxes you may be aware of.

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You may ask now what the heck is going on? Apple against the rest of the
World? If you read articles like this one, you may think exactly the above.
In this case, Apple says, the Logo of the food company looks too similar to
the well-known Apple logo. For me, it looks more similar to the LG logo…

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Well, it seems as if the iPhone has hit a new Low against me. Remember
the published screenshot of my game where I have beaten the AI in under
30 seconds? Today I set a new record: 18 seconds and the AI was done!
So maybe there will be another record in Chess but this one is good!

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The IFA 2011 in Berlin (a famous german annual expo for new hifi and video devices)
brought up a new beauty concerning 3D TV. What has been limited to Asia before finally
seems to hit stores in Europe also. The Toshiba ZL2 is not only a glasses-free 3D TV, it
also supports Quadruple-HD (3840×2160) resolution.

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Dang! I hate it when I can’t sleep! Yesterday I had to face a non-working internet, now it
seems to be back again. So while not being able to sleep due to some sneezing and a bit
sickness, I decided to fiddle around with my blog and try to activate my twitter broad-
cast. Let’s see if this post will also be twittered to my twitter account and thus visible…

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That’s what I call talented: This ventriloquist and puppeteer has his puppet
under full control. Like his audience that laughs and claps with the music
going. Today you rarely see such good ventriloquists and pupeteers. I think,
this métier is going to get forgotten about more and more…

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…that’s what you would think of if you read these values: 6.4 metres long,
1070 kg heavy and a 70 cm long gorge with many spiky teeth. But having
killed a Buffalo and a fisherman, this big saltwater crocodile can be for sure
considered vicious and being described as a real beast!

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Today, the german cell network carrier Telekom has announced that they offer
their loyal customers a preorder ticket to get their hands on the new awaited
iPhone 5. All signs point to October 2011 where the new smartphone shall hit
the stores. You can forecast one thing for sure: It will be sold out for months!

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I’ve read good news about Apple, I’ve read bad news about Apple, I often
agree with Apple when they sue copycats, I hate it when they try to save
their monopoly on tablets by sueing Samsung using patents that are tri-
vial. But today is the day where Apple has finally lost my respect!

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I don’t know what’s more disgusting: The fact that a 45kg lightweight
woman is eating 183(!) Chicken Wings (each approx. 30g meat,in total
a whopping 5.5kg!!!) within 12 minutes or the fact that obesities still a
mayor incident in the USA that causes many deaths each year.

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I must admit, if you expand Firefox with several Addons, it becomes
a very handy and sleek browser. While FF4 had to deal with speed
issues and often stalled with unknown errors or finally stopped
working, Firefox 6 seems to run much more stable than the old version.

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Today I started my work again after a relaxing 3 weeks vacation. Nothing serious
seemed to happen during my absence. So i fired up my desktop and waited for it to
complete it’s bootup (whick takes a mere 5 minutes to complete). So finally the
computer was up and I fired up my Outlook which took another 3 minutes…

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Sure… it seems to be a classical fake but it think, it is a good one. So if you
hate waiting at a railroad crossing, then this train might be your dream.
However this being a fake, in Washington D.C. there is a study ongoing for
a public mass transit system that consists of many tiny individual capsules.

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Finally Diablo III seems to come to stores in near future.
Where Amazon still only does preorders, a local store here
in Bern does so, too but upon question when the game will release,
they say that probably November, 20th will be THE date.

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