Ever wondered how google is processing your search requests or how your
video demands on YouTube are served? Well, till now, there were no official
pictures on the ‘net about the inside looks of Google’s computing centers.
Till now. Google has oficially put together a gallery about their holy cow.

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It seems as if “Kim Dotcom” is still active and going to show the copyright
holders the big middle finger after the imprisonment that happened in 2012
against him in new Zealand. As for now, he is free again and planning to bring
up a new, improved Megaupload service. What it will be, is yet unknown.

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Bern is undergoing a rapid change when it comes to the club scene.
Clubs close, but also there are new ones opening. One of the new
stars in Bern is the Bronx Bar which is opening doors today. A
modern club with modern interior is awaiting you.

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As posted last month, here’s now this months’ Garfield Top 15.
Again here are 15 assorted strips from the various garfield comics over
the years! Have fun and good laughing minutes while watching/reading
them. For more comics, simply scroll down this page.

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As already posted last year, Starlight Events has again taken the idea to make
the Bundeshaus Bern a giant screen. This year’s show deals with the topic
technics, science, lifestyle of Switzerland. An impressive lightshow is ahead of
you. This show is 22 minutes long. Simply said: Fascinating and enchanting!

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The storm is over but the real disaster is just now visible. The following pics
show what Sandy has left. And if you think, a giant city like New York is safe
against mother nature, well… think again! All pictures are copyright of their
respective owners.

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Hello people, my blog is back again. The downtime has based on the lack of
ability to process a payment for the webspace between two banks. After some
haggling and several phone calls, the two banks were finally able to process
my transaction without any unwanted surprises. Now I have peace for 1 year!

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While in Switzerland snow dominates the current weather situation, the east
coast of the USA is facing a big tropical hurricane. Sandy, as the monster is
called is approaching and the people in New York expect massive damage.
As a result of the storm, most shops and even the Wall Street stay closed.

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Someting that can be considered quite rare these days is, when snow comes
down in October. Much rarer when the amount of snow hits 15cm within one
night. Exactly this has happened this night. Now one could say: “Nothing
special, happens often at my place” – But is yours only 550m above sea level?

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Sometimes, 24/7 standby service can really drain your power. Hopefully, the
worst time is over and probably the weekend does not impact so much on me!
in the meantime my blog’s still offline, as there is still some problem to process
a lousy transaction… *Annoyed Grunt*

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Windows 8 is just around the corner. And there are already discussions about
why to change and why not. Let’s have a quick peek on the new OS that will hit
stores tomorrow: Internet Explorer 10, DirectX 12, Tiles, Gestures, support
for touchscreens and tablets, the lack of the Aero surface…

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The iPhone 5 is just out for a month and now the first problems are already
reported. Scratched aluminum-backsides, scratched and caved sideframes
and purple-balanced picture quality under certain circumstances are the
most mentionned problems so far. Grim outlooks for a 900$ product.

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AMD, always known for fast processors for small budget has again
launched a new set of processors for enthusiasts. The FX-8350
(Codename Vishera) is equipped with 8 cores which clock in at 4 GHz.
Using Turbo-Core feature, it scratches 4.2GHz easily.

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You probably know Mr.Bean’s tag from the movie “Bean” when he was on
hold at the airport for simulating a gun in his pocket. In the auditing room he
simulated that he was going down steps and vanishing from the viewport.
A similar tag has been done now by a farm silo which refused to tip.

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This famous citation of Al Bundy throwing out one of Kelly Bundy’s dates
got real for a hasteful man trying to hurry when paying his gasoline bill.
What he didn’t pay attention to: The automatic door seems to have an own
mind and stayed close. Painful for the hurrying man…

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When it comes to Home Security, the USA is willing to take every step to
reduce any possible threat. As read here. Huawei was rejected when it came
to a public tender for network equipment dealing with the overseas
connections. Huawei offered the lowest prices, but the USA still refused.

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Yeah! it’s friday again and I am looking forward to a weekend full of Gaming
(mostly WoW, that is)! The new addon is very interesting to play and for some
character classes a real challenge. But hey. It wouldn’t have been interesting
if the addon gets played thru soon again.

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Mess with the best, die like the rest. In today’s case, this is what Google could
have said to the french government that has planned a fee for linking to
media sites containing multimedia and press content. France has just dis-
cussed such a fee as Germany already has set up plans for the government.

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When it comes to gaming, many people know Steam, a platform where you
can purchase and download games from. The advantage: You don’t have to
store  hundreds of discs somewhere in some shaft once you have installed a
game. The disadvantages: You need an online connection and there are risks.

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The times change, as it does in the internet (speeds, availability) and also TV.
While many cable service providers have a crypted basic cableTV service or
at least only viewable if you own hardware from the certain provider, here
in switzerland, the UPC cablecom is going to change things now.

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When thinking about GPU, one has only one thing in mind. When does the
next generation GPU come out and how will it outwit it’s predecessors?
According to some ideas of the EU, GPU classes determine how much power
they’re allowed to consume. There are seven classes of GPUs.

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You can’t tell for sure what this truck driver has thought. But maybe he
thought, he was playing “Need for Speed – Most Wanted” or GTA… But
speeding with such high velocity into such a harsh turn is for sure not a
good idea, especially when your vehicle is a truck and not a Laborghini.

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The roads in Russia are dangerous. Already prooved many times. In this
case it ain’t otherwise. The driver of this car thinks, the trucker seems to
be an idiot as the trucker is closing up to just a few centimetres to the car.
Well… or is the car braking on purpose? You can’t tell for sure.

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As if the situation for Assange doesn’t look grim already, the activists called
Anonymous have turned their backs on him as Wikileaks has decided to
make some of the critical dossiers only accessible when interested users have
donated. Being annoyed by this, Anonymous officially declared their point.

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Alarm clocks come in a variety of flavors. Some are the old classical bellers,
others have a very annoying beep, again others need to be tossed around to
snooze down and again some use light to wake you up. All these clocks have
one thing in common. They are subject to fail on certain persons.

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So… now again one year has passed and the next jubilee birthday is just 365
days away… sigh… well, gotta have to do the best of it. Thanks to all who sent
me SMS, WhatsApp Messages, Facebook posts etc. as bday greetings. I still
have no idea how to celebrate my jubilee anyways.

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It’s not much time now until the new SimCity (SimCity 5?) gets released.
This new video shows more and more how the new SimCity is played.
Looks very promising and I hope they’ll get it done until the currently
planned release date (February 2013).

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The smartphone is today as essential as the daily newspaper or the E-Mail.
Communication seems essential to most of us. The upcoming generation
doesn’t even hesitate to use the gadget on the toilet. A recent study now
has revealed what happens on the toilets nowadays.

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Sunday, funday? Not really… the weekend is all over again *sigh*
Time to get home and begin the everyday-life again. It has been a great
weekend and I want to say “Thank you” to all who contributed that these
three days have been so worthful waiting for. See you next time again…

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Sorry for the late posting of the saturday. It’s been a very cool and amusing
Oktoberfest visit. As always, we had a couple too many beers. Yet it was
funny. Although the cell network was stable, my fingers weren’t too skilly
enough to properly write the post at the time intended.

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When you go by train with Deutsche Bahn, the sentence above is one of these
you´ll hear at each station the train is about to stop. Annoying when the train
is late (again!). In my case just that happened. I am sorry that my blog entry
didn´t show up yesterday as intended. But it´s the cellphone net, you know…

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Windows 8, also known as “Metro” is about to launch in less than a month.
Time for some news portals to make a comparison of the pre-launch
acceptance. And according to that, it looks rather grim for Windows 8.
So what’s the actual acceptance factor of Windows 8 compared to Seven?

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