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  • Spam of the day

    Spotted a quite peculiar spam message today when I opened my spambox out of absolute boredom and procrastination. Thought I’d share it.

    Hello, Daniel

    Well, I’ve finally gathered all my braveness to write to you.. Even though
    you should know how hard it is to write a letter to a Stranger, whom you’ve
    never seen before and whom you don’t know at all, but I truly believe that
    in this case, my perspective acquaintance with You is more than enough for
    an excuse:)

    Truly speaking, I have thought in the past of such an option, to meet
    someone through the letter, but I wasn’t brave enough for this. I guess, I
    am still not brave enough, but my wish to be happy and to be loved is
    overfilling my heart and head. I am not a complicated person, nor simple.
    I am an individual, that’s for sure. I don’t know what your character is
    and how you look like, most important is that I am not going to change you.
    I want to like you as you are and just be happy. I can answer to you at
    affiliate link removed and will be happy if our relations continue.

    See you

    Marinochka

    Dear Marinochka,

    How brave a person must thy be, for behold ye has sent a man as I such a daring yet good-hearted message. Well-meant compliments I giveth thou for thine cunning control of the English language. However, I sayeth to you, the brave woman who hath no fear to make display of her being a quean, that although most flattered I am, no interest arises in me as response to your grand act of courageousness.

    Quite the individual thou must be indeed, but my fear of one’s potential motivation to change me takes control of me. Thou sayeth that thou shalt not change me, although thou hath yet changed me since now I speaketh in the poorest of Old English for no reason which hath apparence.

    Good luck with your wish. You silly cunt.

    Love,
    Daniel

  • ClipMarks

    Check out this tool I found called ClipMarks. Let’s you easily make screenshots of what you want, so you don’t have to crop your print-screens, and it’s even easier to share your clippings. Go check it out!

    clipped from clipmarks.com

    Watch the demo on the right to see how
    it works, or keep reading to learn more…

      blog it
  • A busy week and a trip to Plovdiv

    It’s been a long week. Last Saturday night I was waiting for my parents to arrive at Sofia airport. On my way to find a bus or a taxi to the airport I find out it’s snowing! So I go to the airport, stand between a crowd of Bulgarians waiting for people to arrive. After about half an hour they come out and after another half an hour we manage to get ourselves into a taxi. It was kinda strange to see them walking into Bulgaria, into my life here. It had the same type of ‘shock’ effect as when I took a taxi into Sofia upon my arrival here in Bulgaria. The first night they crash at my place, the next day we try to find somewhere to have breakfast/lunch, which turned out to be a bit tougher than I thought. It didn’t suck as bad as the long walk to their hotel though 😉 From there I went straight up to the airport to pick up Janneke. The crowd that was there now was about 3 times as big as the day before. We went to my place and later that day met up with my parents to have dinner.

    Monday was rainy, very rainy. Almost Holland-rainy. No, just like Holland-rainy. Rain, rain, rain all day long. We managed to see a lot, but it cost a lot of energy to control my mood. When it rains like this, people here don’t go outside unless they don’t have a choice.

    Rainy Sofia

    On Tuesday it was back to work for me. More work on a presentation I’m giving this Wednesday. Lunch with Janneke. A few more hours of work and it was time to errr.. I kinda forgot what happened on Tuesday.

    Wednesday it was basically the same thing, minus the lunch with Janneke.. plus I remember what happened that day. At some point Janneke and I met up with my parents, because they would be traveling through Bulgaria and I might not see them before they left the country, so I had to say goodbye. Janneke and I were planning to eat with my friends in Studentski Grad, but because the buses were so full and the taxi drivers did not want to go to Studentski Grad, we decided not to go. We ended up walking around, going back home, going ’round the corner to eat. I had some rakiya, which is powerful of itself, but this time I could feel it through my throat and throughout my body. Bad experience. Could not enjoy the drink. Ended up looking like a pussy who can’t even drink hard liquor. 😉

    The next day I worked until around 1pm and then headed home. As I got home we grabbed our stuff and headed for the busstation. We were going on a trip to Plovdiv! Actually managed to book a private room in a hostel (Hikers Hostel), which was good. Hotels are expensive and don’t offer half the value a good hostel does. Met some Australians, Frenchman, Chilean, Canadians, Americans (one of which was a Lonely Planet writer (with an attitude)), Belgians.. That evening we walked around and saw some of what Plovdiv had to offer. Below are some pictures which you can click to enlarge. You can also go to the picture gallery.

    Cat in Plovdiv Ancient theatre in Plovdiv Purple shoe sunset I’ve been framed!

    Actually, I decided to let the pictures speak for themselves. Here are some more.

    Plovdiv fresco Abandoned building in Plovdiv Plovdiv amphitheate

    We stayed there Thursday and Friday night. On Saturday we went to the second biggest monastery in Bulgaria, called Bachkovo. Quite an interesting place to visit, although it was obviously the end of the tourist season and they didn’t really feel like having everything open the whole time (I guess we came around lunchtime). The up-side of it was that it wasn’t swarming with tourists, yet there were still too many for my taste.

    Another update later, I have to get working on my presentation.

  • EvilAngle – LiberTea

    A new mix, filled with dance. A bit more energetic than the last one. I close it with Noisia’s new release “Yellow Brick”. A smashing tune. This mix is worth a download even if it’s just to hear that track!

    Tracklist
    Yahel and Tammy – Radio (00:00 – 07:41)
    Hujaboy – Language of the Future (06:47 – 08:46)
    BK – Stay High (08:20 – 12:45)
    Underworld – Born Slippy (11:58 – 13:36)
    Wizzy Noise – Sisters of Darkness (13:13 – 17:39)
    Yoji and Romeo – Six Hours (17:26 – 22:23)
    Bas Mooy – Fantoompijn (22:10 – 25:02)
    Melvin Warning – Muzika [Marks and Gates Mix] (24:35 – 31:37)
    Kold Konnexion meets DJ Luna – Magic Minus (31:09 – 33:45)
    Thomas Bronzwaer – Constellation (33:19 – 38:50)
    Ekon – Carbon (37:57 – 41:47)
    Steff Da Campo – Candyman (41:47 – 44:08)
    Freaks – Creep [Get On The Floor] [Thomas Gold RMX] (43:55 – 47:42)
    John Marks – Carnival [Global Warming Vocal Club Mix] (47:28 – 52:43)
    Mario Piu – Communication (52:22 – 55:51)
    Cara Dillon vs 2Devine – Black is the Colour [Above and Beyond’s Devine Intervention Mix] (55:37 – 62:48)
    MIDIval Punditz – 136 (61:53 – 67:52)
    Hardfloor – Mahogany Roots (66:45 – 71:18)
    Noisia – Yellow Brick (70:36 – 77:59)

    Download
    At uploaded.to
    At MegaUpload

    Presented by The MiX-Files!

  • Fire Show at Rila

    Surprise! Another video! Check out the fireshow from last Saturday‘s psytrance party!

    [googlevideo=http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=9200167110431981303]

  • Weekend Recap

    What a weekend. Friday morning I left for Troyan with my colleague and her husband to make a report on an event there. Took a lot of pictures. That evening we went to have dinner with all the people who were invited to the event. The deputy mayor of Troyan sent a group of students to our table, since they would be able to speak English to me. I’ll get back to that one later. So after dinner, the group decided they wanted to go get a coffee.. I decided to go along and my colleague joined. So a coffee became an alcoholic drink and what became one alcoholic drink became many. Managed to not speak to any of the girls except one. I wonder if I disappointed the deputy mayor… Woke up early the next day to resume work, wondering when I would be able to sleep more than 4 hours (I’m on a sleep diet again).

    troyan1.jpg troyan2.jpg rila1.jpg rila2.jpg

    We left at around 1… Or started leaving anyway. I got back to my apartment, had about half an hour to get other stuff and buy food. Then I had to go to Bobi’s house, because we were going to a psytrance party on the Rila mountain. After about 2.5 hours of mucking about in Sofia, we were finally on the road. Was a tad hard to find, but in the end we found it… It was SO cold. During the night it got colder and colder, to a point where I did not want to remove myself from the fire anymore. Glad that Bobi could lend me his winter-jacket. At about 6 I grabbed my blanket and slept on the forest floor for about 2 hours. Came home on Sunday at around 12.30 I think. Slept until 8pm, when I decided to go get some pizza. Dead-tired still.. That’s why I’m keeping this post short. I’ll let the picture speak for themselves.

    Click here for the Troyan gallery.
    Or here for the Rila psytrance party gallery.

  • EvilAngle – DanceMonkeyDance

    Just some easily accessible dance music. Hope you enjoy!

    Tracklist
    Transform – Transformation (00:00 – 03:34)
    Sunfreakz ft. Andrea Britton – Counting Down the Days [Axwell RMX] (02:32 – 08:22)
    Soul Providers – Rise (07:51 – 09:57)
    Olav Basoki – Waterman (09:40 – 12:00)
    The Course – Ready or Not (11:29 – 14:01)
    Gusto – Disco’s Revenge (13:31 – 15:39)
    Syndicate of Law – I Like to Move it [12″ Mix] (15:09 – 20:17)
    Dennis Christopher – It’s Not Right [Simmons and Christopher Dub Mix] (19:15 – 25:32)
    Paul Johnson – Get Get Down 2006 [Kurd Mawericks Addicted to Drums RMX] (24:32 – 30:03)
    Black Legend – You See The Trouble With Me (29:48 – 33:07)
    Queen vs. the Miami Project – Another One Bites the Dust [Club Mix] (32:53 – 36:41)
    Junior Jack – Stupidisco (35:41 – 37:41)
    A.T.F.C. – Bad Habit (37:26 – 40:24)
    De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig – Shenkie (40:03 – 42:30)
    Akcent – Kylie (42:15 – 44:08)
    Bon Garçon – Freek U (43:51 – 45:14)
    Alcazar – This Is The World We Live In (45:06 – 48:33)
    Dr. Kucho! ft. Andy Sherman – Lies to Yourself [Original Mix 07] (47:00 – 53:57)
    Justin Timberlake – Lovestoned I Think She Now [Tiësto RMX] (52:58 – 55:51)
    Freaks – The Creep [Get On The Floor] [Thoamas Gold RMX] (55:36 – 60:32)
    Steff da Campo – Candyman [Extended Mix] (60:18 – 64:02)
    Infernal – Ten Miles [Spank@The High Mile Club Mix] (63:02 – 67:17)
    Brielle Davis – Take It Off [Andy Calldwell RMX] (67:03 – 70:56)
    Paul Oakenfold ft. Pharell – Sex N’ Money [Benny Benassi Pump-kin Club Mix] (69:01 – 75:42)

    Download at:
    MegaUpload
    Uploaded.to

    Presented by The MiX-Files

  • DailyMe Launches Public Beta

    Looks like I won’t be giving out invitations after all.

    Tuesday, October 9, 2007, 12:05 AM
    I’m pleased to announce the launch of the DailyMe public Beta. This means our DailyMe news platform is now available to everyone.We’ve been working hard to be able to make this day happen. I’d like to thank all of our early Beta testers for their commitment, feedback and patience over the past months. Much of the DailyMe experience we are launching today is a direct result of the feedback that we have compiled from our initial Beta test group.

    For those new to DailyMe, all you need to do to experience DailyMe is create an account and select your DailyMe preferences. It’s a short process that just takes a few minutes.

    Briefly, DailyMe creates a personalized news digest based on your own preferences, using choices of news categories, keywords, individual news sources and pre-configured “picks.” You can choose to have DailyMe delivered on the web, sent via email or automatically output from your personal computer printer at a specified time of day.

    Feel free to sign up and give DailyMe a try.

    Lastly, one request. As you use and enjoy this Beta version of DailyMe, if you have any suggestions for the site, encounter any technical issues, or come across anything that is not 100% clear, please let us know so we can address it. We’ve set up a link on the sidebar where you can reach us directly.

    Thanks for your interest in DailyMe.

    -Eduardo

    Try it out people. I’ve been using it for a little bit now and it’s quite a nice system. Really has to separate itself from other personalized news pages though, when it comes to the web service that is. The options that you can automatically get it emailed, or printed are very cool. Besides that, Eduardo announced some cool stuff that will be available in the future:

    As a result of such feedback, we’ll be:
    – Looking into improvements and better explanations for the process of selecting content (step 2 of the sign-up process)
    – Adding an open RSS reader to allow DailyMe users to add their preferred RSS feeds
    – Offering more display options for your news page
    – Adding more licensed sources

    Sweet stuff, right?

    One thing I don’t really get however, is the social bookmarking links at the bottom of articles on DailyMe. Thing is, I doubt that you can view any content without signing up, so what’s the point in SOCIAL bookmarking it?

    If you’re interested, go check out the sign-up page now!

    Soon you’ll be able to receive DailyMe throughout the day, where, when and how you’d like. Have your 9:00am DailyMe via email at your desk and your 6:00pm DailyMe printed automatically, easy for the grab and go commute.

    The future of news. Share it.

  • Taking Action Against Climate Change, the best choice

    In the whole climate change debate (it’s ridiculous it has to be a debate), I decided that the possible cost of NOT taking action, would FAR outweigh the cost of taking action NOW. Actually, what would be so bad about preventing climate change? Living in a cleaner, healthier world? The cities wouldn’t be so filled with smog, there would be less polution, no more oil wars… Sounds a lot better.

    Anyway, the following video argues the same thing, but in a way that’s a bit more digestible than my elaborate theories.

    [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=zORv8wwiadQ]

  • Two Web 2.0 Tips!

    RSS2Twitter

    Just found a really nice tool for shameless self-promotion. A simple tip to increase your SEO ratings.

    Go to www.rss2twitter.com right now! If you don’t have a Twitter account yet, open up one. Basically, you can let RSS2Twitter export any RSS link straight to your Twitter (the Picasa one doesn’t seem to be working though). Easily increasing links back to your website. Encourage other people to do the same and who knows how fast you might rise in the indexes.

    Here’s the next cool thing.

    Selecting del.icio.us tags for your site

    If you’ll have a look at the bottom of the menu on the right on this page please, you’ll see that I have links to some of my bookmarks there. If you click through to my del.icio.us account (add me!) however, you’ll see that I’m bookmarking a lot more. Have a look here: http://del.icio.us/Spartz/baslife. These are the links that are exported to my site by adding an RSS feed widget to my blog. This specific site (everything tagged ‘baslife’ by ‘Spartz’ (me)) is automatically aggregated to this page. Ain’t that sweet?

    Like it? Stumble it!Add this to your del.icio.us!

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