Archive 10. September 2004

The Web is Small

That's how you wander through the RSS reader and stumble over one thing after another, eventually landing on someone you've already discussed the correct functioning of mail/newsreaders (or MausNet frontends) with in the MausNet. Weird. The web is definitely too small.

Here's the original article.

Cologne Stollwerck factory to close

Shame. Okay, Stollwerck was never really my favorite chocolate - I'm quite spoiled by Cluizel, Valrhona, Dolfin and Domori, everything else is just chocolate garbage to me - but still, somehow it belonged to Cologne. Hopefully the chocolate museum will remain there.

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there's the original article.

More on Nokia's 9300 Communicator

Looks nice. Maybe I should swap out my private phone for something more current at some point. After all, I still have such an outdated S3 Com for my private plan, so the Nokia is even smaller.

You can find the original article at Engadget.

Rolleiflex T - Information about the Rolleiflex T

Sony Has Stupid Ears

I have a Sony Clie PEG TH55 - a nice device that has everything a business PDA needs. So camera, MP3 player and other gadgets. Oh, and of course it can do calendar and stuff too.

What it can't always do though: play my MP3s. I have various MP3s created with different programs. At first I thought only the 192 kbit MP3s from iTunes were causing trouble, so I quickly converted a bunch of songs from my iTunes to 128 kbit MP3s (using Amadeus II - a really cool audio editing program!). Well, the result: Pink Floyd songs work, those were converted from AAC tracks (I ripped them more recently). Emerson, Lake & Palmer doesn't work - those were 192 kbit MP3s before, but were saved as 128 kbit MP3s the same way. With the same software.

Anyway, my iPod is much nicer and more pleasant for music anyway. I had just hoped to get by with just one device in an emergency, but that's only very limited with the Clie. Annoying.