If you, like me, enjoy listening to a good audiobook while dozing off to dreamland, but don’t want to leave your computer running throughout the entire night…

NightTunes is for you!

No more harddisk clatter noise or blowing CPU fans disturbing your sleep …plus you’re reducing your your energy bill and your carbon footprint

Unlike other shutdown solutions, NightTunes does not depend on user-set timers to determine when to shutdown your PC. That way it is guaranteed that your computer won’t bail out on you right in the middle of your goodnight tale, only because you forgot to set the timer right.

16:20:00 RolyPolyCoho
Greetings! I know this is hard to believe, but I’m you – from the future. I bear important news.
16:20:13 seboslaw
holy crap! How old are you….err…am I?
16:21:00 RolyPolyCoho
still didn’t answer my question
16:21:13 seboslaw
what question?
16:21:42 RolyPolyCoho
the question asking who are you?
16:22:07 seboslaw
well……if I believe you, I am you
16:22:49 RolyPolyCoho
whatever
16:23:20 seboslaw
whatever my ass….you said: Greetings! I know this is hard to believe, but I’m you – from the future. I bear important news.
16:23:31
so what’s the important news?
16:23:48
or do I know already? this me-you thing’s kinda confusing me
16:25:42
haha, I guess we both got tricked…..http://nixiepixel.com/blog/index.php/aim-fish-bot-help

• Jerry “Crusher” Blackwell–January 22, 1995–Died of complications from injuries sustained in a road accident.
• “The British Bulldog” Davey Boy Smith (39) –May 18, 2002–Died from a heart attack.
• Owen Hart: May 23, 1999–Died from 50 foot fall from ceiling to ring.
• Yokozuna (34)–October 22, 2000–Died from a heart attack.
• “The British Bulldog” Davey Boy Smith (39) –May 18, 2002–Died from a heart attack.
• “Mr. Perfect” Curt Hennig (44)–February 10, 2003–acute cocaine intoxication.
• Ray “Big Bossman” Traylor (41)–September 22, 2004–Heart failure.
• John Tenta [Earthquake]  (42)–June 7, 2006–bladder cancer.
• Bam Bam Bigelow [Scott Bigelow] (45)–January 19, 2007–Drugs.

RIP. I guess, “The Wrestler” portrays the reality of wrestlers better than you’d expect.

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Unter http://www.nichtlustig.de gibt es wunderschöne Comics über depressive Elefanten, ängstliche Zebras, kreative Lemminge, sowie viele andere skurrile Alltags- und Nicht-Alltagssituationen. Absolut sehenswert!!!

In der letzten Zeit habe ich viel über virales Marketing gelesen und gehört, speziell von einem Freund, der in diesem Bereich seine Diplomarbeit schreibt. Heute morgen ist diese neuartige Vermarkungswoge bis in die Wrangelstraße, genauer gesagt in meinen Briefkasten geschlagen. Dort fand sich ein gefütterter Umschlag, der nach dem Öffnen ein schmales Holzkästchen zu Tage förderte. Selbiges enthielt neben einer Lochkarte, welche auf der Rückseite die Beschriftung “THE FINAL MILL INC.”/”SERIES AAB” trug, einen Zettel mit folgender Info: “To execute these commandments you’ll have to find the properly gifted fellows.” Der Poststempel besagt, dass der Umschlag in Frankfurt aufgegeben wurde.

Torsten, der sich so schön hat anstecken lassen(:-), und meine Wenigkeit haben haben daraufhin versucht, zumindest die Lochkarte auszulesen…wie es scheint jedoch erfolglos. Was wir haben ist: “UMAKZZLNBZWHTWNYOLVIFKPRGQCIPNJIQTRRFRJMIGXGLOGEVIEJWNNCRZZCGKQW”. Wenn man die einzelnen characters jeweils mit einem offset versieht, kommt leider auch nichts vernünftiges dabei heraus.

Nach einer erneuten Google-Suche bin ich auf Thomas gestoßen, der scheinbar ein ähnliches Paket bekommen hat. Nach seinen Fotos zu urteilen, ist seine Lochkarte jedoch nicht identisch mit meiner, weshalb ich mittlerweile davon ausgehe, dass darauf kein wirklicher Hinweis zu finden ist. Vielleicht gibt es ja irgendwo noch “gifted fellows”, denen man ergänzende Infos zukommen lassen hat. Bis dahin tue ich, was von mir erwartet wird, mache diesen Blog-Eintrag und gieße Wasser auf die Mühlen der Werbeindustrie. Ihr seit super!

Update 1: Neben Thomas und mir haben scheinbar auch Robert und Mariusz Post bekommen.

Update 2: Hier nochmal ein link zu einem höher aufgelösten Scan meiner Lochkarte. @Stefan: ich hoffe, Du kannst damit was anfangen!

Update 3: Auf http://www.wiki.argr.de/index.php5?title=Final_Mill_-_Trail werden Infos gesammelt.

The second thing I really missed was a search capability that lets me search in any of my RSS feeds. Even when setting the feed’s display option to show “All Items”, that only gives you the last 100 items instead of ALL as the control’s caption might suggest.

Enter: Google Reader (GR).

I gotta say. I’m really impressed! Not only does GR present solutions and improvements for all of the weaknesses mentioned above, it also presents itself with a simple and intuitive interface. Clicking on a subscription actually gives you the whole feed…and I don’t mean 100 items, but the whole damn thing. The politics news cast of “Spiegel Online” for example is browsable back to Oct 2005. Upon opening a feed, GE pre-loads the first 20 items and then constantly streams in more, the further you scroll down. In contrary to Bloglines, items get automatically marked as read when you scroll by or click on them. This way you can actually read some updated items now and then continue dealing with any left unread items later. For me, the implemented full-text search, however, was the most determining factor when making the descision to switch to GR. Being able to search in RSS feeds makes information inquiry so much more uncomplicated. Although I can still mark or tag (or “star” as GR calls it) my feed items, at the moment I don’t actually feel like I need to anymore since retrieving them is so simple now.

What more can I say…try it yourself.

And if you think that is a real downsite, think again: During synchronization between Gmail and your client program, the mail from above (labled with “work”, “php” and “project”) is downloaded 3 (in words THREE) times, one time for each folder. Even if you try to circumvent this by labeling your mails with solely one tag, your .pst file will be bloated to twice the size because each mail resides within the label (-folder) AND by default the “All mails”-folder.

One workaround is to let your client download only the headers of unimportant mails, although I prefer having a hard copy of my mails on my HD. I guess removing the mails from the inbox will cut the local disk usage of the .pst file in half (you still have all your mail in the “All mails” folder). But then again, the “All mails” folder contains ALL your mails, including the ones you sent, so it is kinda messy.

I hope Google will do something about this.

However, IMAP has not been enabled for all users yet, which is supposed to take another week or so. If you’re blessed already, you can logon to your GMail account and then go to “Settings->Forwarding and POP/IMAP” to enable IMAP….oh and as of yet you have to set the interface language of your GMail account to “English (US)” for the IMAP options to appear. If the tab still only shows “Forwarding and POP” you just have to wait a little bit longer or you didn’t change the i-face language correctly.

In your mail client, GMail’s labels are supported by folders (e.g. your label “old-mail” corresponds to a subfolder “old-mail” of your root-GMail-IMAP-folder). If you want to tag a mail with multiple lables in your client, simply copy the mail to all the corresponding (sub-)folders.

Deleting mails proved to be a little bit trickier than expected. If you want to delete a message for good, you will have to move the mail to the “Trash” folder. Deleting it the usual way (pressing the delete key or choosing “delete” from the right-click context menu) will only remove the mail’s labels and the mail itself will still be present in the “All Mail” folder (cf. here). In Outlook for example the mail will be crossed out as usual on deletion, but if you then try to purge all marked elements, nothing will happen.