I am very hard at work port­ing my old blog to Word­Press. I have to port my theme over, I have a mobile ver­sion, from which I can post from my mobile phone on loca­tion. There’s a lot to be done and to little time to do it. But from a tech­ni­cal point of view it will be a whole lot sim­pler because I don’t have to main­tain my own code­base any­more. But that’s also the catch, I was not very famil­iar with the Word­Press API’s so I had to do to many things at the same time. So I decided to do the back-​end first, then the fea­tures and after that the front-​end. So there you have the reason why I’m late with my posts. I will do my posts from now on “dual-mode” (old way and Word­Press style).

We’re totally hooked at this game! You can stare and gaze over min­utes at the same pic­ture and still not see that pesky lob­ster. We played all avail­able episodes in one breath or shall I say in a couple of days? My girl­friend is a true sher­lock in the making.

I have been very busy these days! We did a lot of pitches at the com­pany I’m cur­rently employed with. For relax­ation I gave my girl­friend a Ticket Deluxe for Cav­alia. Before the show we could enjoy a nice glass of cham­pagne (or other drinks) I had chosen the Palm Royal (man did it hit me). After 15 min we went inside the “big white giant tent” called the “Big Top” with room for up to 2000 seats. The show was mag­i­cal, all the sea­sons were visu­al­ized. The winter was “breathtaking”. It’s amaz­ing and fas­ci­nat­ing to see the bond between human beings an horses. It was a mix­ture of dra­matic visual effects, live music, dance, humor and acro­bat­ics. There were over thirty mag­nif­i­cent horses at the show, includ­ing the famous and incred­i­ble Lusi­tano stal­lions. After the shows we could visit the sta­bles and got a Audio CD and a cal­en­dar. We really enjoyed this well deserved evening together.

As a die-​hard gamer, I’m a Bliz­zard lover. 1. They make excel­lent games with cin­e­matic game expe­ri­ences. 2. They always release their games simul­ta­ne­ously for Mac and PC. 3. Just, fun. Bliz­zard for anyone who’ve might have missed it; has released Star­Craft 2. As usual, I was blown away by the qual­ity of their game art.

I hope they will make a movie some­time?! I’m not even going to describe the game just sit back, pump-​up your volume and enjoy the ride… Here’s the gor­geous the cin­e­matic trailer.

When Apple rebranded iTools to .Mac, Apple made fun of Microsoft’s .Net (.Net is Microsoft vision of an appli­ca­tion pro­gram­ming frame­work for future Win­dows appli­ca­tions). When Apple bought NeXT, NeXTSTEP and WebOb­jects were part of the pack­age deal. NeXTSTEP and WebOb­ject were light years ahead of any­thing out there. The pro­gram­ming envi­ron­ment was capa­ble of run­ning on sev­eral dif­fer­ent oper­at­ing sys­tems. Parts of NeXT’s soft­ware were later used as the foun­da­tion for Mac OS X. WebOb­jects is suc­cess­ful being used for the Apple Store, iTunes Store and .Mac (.Mac is Apple’s vision of easy to use Web Ser­vices).
I see .Mac as (online) soft­ware and soft­ware has to be improved and get new fea­tures over time. The devel­op­ment of .Mac is slack­ing and get­ting behind other ser­vices, is .Mac ever going to improve? Even Apple’s board of direc­tors asked Steve Jobs what was going on? If you com­pare .Mac to Google or Yahoo you’ll soon get the pic­ture. 1GB disk space… common Apple, that’s old school! Where’s the PHP sup­port? Where’s the stan­dards sup­port? You’ll have to keep up!!! I am even con­sid­er­ing drop­ping my .Mac account! 99 dol­lars a year for this? Sorry, Apple you’ll have to do better! But there’s light at the end of the tunnel, if we can believe the rumors. Leop­ard (Mac OS X 10.5) will offer loads of enhance­ments and even tighter inte­gra­tion with .Mac. I’ll sit this one out till Leop­ard, but if Leop­ard doesn’t bring any improve­ments I’ll def­i­nitely end my sub­scrip­tion and say .Njet to .Mac (njet means “NO” in russian).

>Okay, I am a Mac-​head, the truth is out! But I don’t have a Steve Jobs poster above my bed and I love good humor. Now and then some­thing funny passes around the web, I think this is one of them. Watch this great spoof of Mac vs. PC at YouTube and this one

I am cur­rently inves­ti­gat­ing mobile offer­ings of my weblog. So mobile.​dig​i​tal​ren​dezvous.net is on its way. This will enable me to post from any loca­tion and let users post com­ments from any loca­tion. Moblog­ging is in its infancy phase, but I think the mobile device as we know it will change dra­mat­i­cally, offer­ing users far more flex­i­bil­ity and usabil­ity in the future.