24inch monitor in full HD resolution from Dell

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Now I’m happy with my new 24-inch monitor, which was a very cheap
offer from Dell for only 830 euros.
Thus always longing for a big apple screen, I had no chance to
resist. And the best thing is, it’s full HD capable on my Mac
mini.
And also it has amazing connection possibilities: VGA, DVI, YUV,
SVIDEO, Composite and Picture-in-Picture, Pivot and so on.Simply great, what an awesome investment.

Helicopter Rescue Training

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Today, I had the chance to catch eye on helicopter emergency
excercise. At least, I guess that’s what I saw.Again and again, I heard a helicopter noise near the powerstation
next to my home.
So I picked my cam and did some shots, and a short video, but
missing a tripod shooting video on a flying object without any
stabilization looks ugly, so there’s no podcast
available.

The helicopter approached the roof of a building, threw some green
smoker on top, and then began lifting up firemen. Flying one round,
the chopper approached the roof again and the firemen was released
back to the roof.

Maybe he forgot his watch ? Winking
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Tribute to the Ninja

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When the sun goes down, the ninja comes out.

It’s true, they’re among us. And they’re just
waiting for you to be too curious and make a mistake, and
they’ll just kill you.

If you like to know more about Ninjas it’s a must to see the
podcast episodes at askaninja.com

Meanwhile I managed to uncover some of those nightactive friends
with my infrared spycamera.

The Kitchen Ninja, awaits you in the night, when you’re
sleep-walking.
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The Todana / evil cupboard Ninja…
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…and the most deadly of them all, the fridge-ambush
Reizoko Ninja, just waiting until you want to get some midnight
food or drink when the service has already finished and then just
cutting your arms off, followed by the head.

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I just mean, watch out, they’re really there and
deadly.
Lucky me, with my knowledge about ninjas I survived this last
night, with my head still on its place.

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Holiday

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Ahhh… holiday, finally.
My wife is on her way to Japan, visiting her parents, some friends
and a marriage-party.Time for me to let good old times roll… Winking
Try all that cigars that are already waiting for me a long time,
and my expensive bottle of australian red wine that I kept for a
special moment. Bought me that wonderful tub chair
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directly at the airport after my wife left me alone back here….
Sad

But I guess I’ll find some things to do within those two
weeks, and if it’ll be pure relaxing only.
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Vocabulary Trainer ProVoc

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I’ve been looking around for some time now to find the
ultimate vocabulary training application on Mac.
Since my focus goes to the ability to train japanese vocabulary,
the range of applications supporting asian characters is rather
small.
My first finding was Kotoba which is specialized on japanese
kanjis, but it’s more or less a vocabulary card type learning
program, as you enter your vocabulary or load an existing one, and
you view one language and guess the other then review the
answer.ProVoc goes much further, as it has real multimedia abilities, like
audio and even video support.
Additionally you can type the answer even in japanese or any other
input style, or just point and click from multiple choices, or just
enjoy a cinematic slideshow of vocabulary.
And for those of you on the road it is even possible to export your
vocabulary to the iPod including audio and exercise wherever you
are.

Statistics freaks may enjoy the historic view of hopefully getting
better vocabulary testing results. It’s also possible to
train only the last wrong answers. In other words….

…ProVoc is simply great !!!!

BeNuts Ska@StuStaCulum

Right after their big tour in Japan,
the BeNuts finally arrived at Munichs biggest annual student
festival, the “STUdentenSTAdt spectaCULUM”.


Above video is from one of their biggest hits: Ska Summer Night,
filmed during their concert today.
I have to excuse for the bad quality, but I only had my wifes
camera by the hand, which only does QVGA, with horrible 8kHz mono
8bit sound.

The BeNuts started 12 years ago in munich, and have already managed
to be successful on tour in Madrid, Moscow and the big japanese
cities Tokyo, Osaka…

Check out the BeNuts Homepage, buy a CD there and
further checkout the StuStaCulum website.