Please!

Stop it.

Everywhere you look you see folks telling you:
“The Xbox 360 is the first console of the next generation!”

I had the “honour” playing with one for the last few days … and …
Well … that’s what I’m waiting for. There is no “and”.
It’s just another xbox.

OK, it is a little bit faster and it has better graphics,
but that’s what you get if you buy a new PC every year.

There is no revolution with the 360.
It’s only evolution.
And only very little steps forward.

Here is what I am saying:
“The Xbox 360 is the last console of the last generation!”

Don’t believe me ?

We’ll talk again next thanksgiving

Now that the first boxes are out in the wild, I can finaly say what I think about this …

- It’s to noisy. Is it me ? Or does it sound like a hurricane ?
- The power brick. Well, want to kill someone ? Need a weapon ?
- The games ? I’m totally unimpressed. Luckily I don’t have to buy one.

Still holding my breath - and saving my money - for the Playstation 3.

Just check some screenshots

Just found a new toy:
Nokia Sensor

I don’t expect to stumble upon too many other users in the near future,
but I’ll leave it running.

I hope it won’t drain my batteries too much

A good friend (mambo) just ordered an PMA400 and (after a little nagging) started a blog about it.
If you can read german: Archos PMA400 Blog.

I’m pretty sure he’s going to develop some nice apps for it

That is once he received it…

Estone
If they’d mention a price I would start to think about replacing my empeg MKII.

Nah. Not really.

SD Card Doubles as USB Flash Drive - Everything USB

Now if they’d only do this with compact flash.

BTW:
880 New Taiwan Dollar are about 20 Euros or 27 US$.

I’ve been thinking about a new (photo) printer a lot lately.
Looks like the Canon Pixma IP5000 (amazon.de) is the one I want.

Want to buy me one ?

50-in-1 Video Game | firstSTREETonline.com

I always wanted something like this:
Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women: Calory Answer Spectroscopic Calorimeter

But I might have to wait a while, till the price drops…

Once I get my new mobile phone (Nokia 6600) I’ll start looking into blogging by phone/mail:
WordPress Wiki - How To Blog By Email
wp-admin/options-writing.php

I don’t have an entry (or even an idea for an entry) yet:
PortaGame.com - Photo Contest: Win A GBA Movie Player

But I just triggered the whole german scene

This looks way cool:
Geekzone, mobile forums

But I wonder how this interferes with WiFi…

The official info:
PlayStation.com - News and Media - Press Releases - PLAYSTATION®2 GETS STUNNING NEW LOOK

I want one … too bad I bought a used PS2 about 6 weeks ago …

I just got a brandnew G5 Mac.

PowerMac 7,3
Dual PPC970 (with altivec)
2.5 GB RAM
160GB SATA HardDisk
GeForce FX 52000

Just about to install gentoo…

We played
at buenzli last week.
And I must have it.

The next party is comming fast …

After a long time I finally decided to play with my empeg MKII again.
Well, I use it everyday,
but I never touched the software anymore.

Anyway:
- Upgraded to 2.0 final Developer Image
- Upgraded hijack to 411
- Installed emphatic had some trouble with 2.01 so I’m now up to 2.03

This is the display mode I’m using right now:

<display_mode name=”Anti III” visual=”None”>
<hscroll attr=”$(artist:format=$: )$(source:format=$)$(year:format=($))” font=”small” color=”bright” bgcolor=”transparent” y=”1″ x=”1″ width=”128″ speed=”10″ pause=”0″ show=”ifnotempty”/>
<line attr=”$(bpm:format=$)” font=”small” color=”bright” bgcolor=”black” y=”1″ x=”-1″ width=”0″ show=”ifnotempty” time=”+00:00,10″/>

<line attr=”[$(ppos)/$(plength)]$( s:ifshuffled)$(!!:ifmarked)” font=”small” color=”bright” bgcolor=”transparent” y=”28″ x=”-1″ width=”0″/>
<line attr=”$(trackelapsed)/$(tracklength)” font=”medium” color=”bright” bgcolor=”transparent” y=”26″ x=”10″ width=”0″/>

<hscroll attr=”$(title) ” font=”gimungous” color=”bright” bgcolor=”transparent” x=”1″ y=”8″ width=”128″ speed=”10″ pause=”5″/>
<playerscreen blendmode=”normal” burnin=”false”/>
</display_mode>

And this is what it looks like:

I’ll have to get the large font to gain some real estate to improve on this…

So everybody seems to be pretty hyped about the new iPod.
OK, the specs look alright;
And the price is cheap … considering the included Apple-TAX.

But after recent experiences with Apples-Support and -Service I’ll keep as far away from iPods as I possibly can.

If I get one for free, I’ll probably use it for some gravitational experiments…

Want want want:
Sony NAVITUS Remote Control RM-NX7000

I own an empeg MK2,
which is still the best thing there is,
but this
Sony debuts Linux-based in-car nav / infotainment line in Japan
might be up to the challenge…

Want, want, want, want, want … this:

ARCHOS - Cinema to go