Wed 28.07.2010 15:42

Track of the week

Stunna - Aquarius [Play sample]

Another HQ production from fresh BassDriveTunes label. Keep rollin' guys.


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Sun 11.07.2010 18:06

Track of the week

Arje - Controlled Emotions [Play sample]


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Tue 01.06.2010 12:40

First false positive ever

I have experienced first false positive spam message ever since I started using DSPAM spam filter. Anyway ... check Monty Python's definition of spam as something unsolicited or undesired. In this case the original canned meat known and sold here in Prague as "lunch meat".


Posted by Charon | Permalink | Categories: Technology

Tue 18.05.2010 16:31

Track of the week

Undersound feat. Jane Thomas - Soul testify


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Fri 14.05.2010 11:40

Embassies as the architecture showroom

Check out the overview of embassies in current "architecture capital" of Europe - in Berlin. I did not view everything just about seven or eigth and my surprising favourite so far: Oman.


Posted by Charon | Permalink | Categories: Society

Thu 06.05.2010 12:50

Web application that sucks example? Facebook

I have just read an interesting article Top 10 reasons why you should quit Facebook. There are a lot of complatins about privacy, unethical behavior, technical incompetence etc. which are definitely relevant and significant, but the truly gem there is located at the end of the text as the no. 1 reason: "the application itself sucks". I would sign that!

I created my Facebook profile because of an online marketing campaign in my work and since the firt moment I wondered why so many people use a love such a terrible web application as Facebook?

It has really horrible user interface (UI), for instance:

  • Non-intuitive navigation - the most items are somewhere else than you would expect and it takes time to locate anything
  • More ways of reaching the functionality - You can choose more ways of accessing certain functionality, which is not good itself. The worse is there are different options depending on the way you navigated (for example reding external RSS feed into Notes).
  • Important features missing - Why we can not edit the post in we make a typo? No editing, just delete and repaste once more ... with another typo maybe? :)
  • Bugs - Even the core features have bugs. If you use cut&paste to fill the wall post and have longer text, you get wrong alignment. The only way to keep it correct? Retype!
  • Options hell - The ton of different settings seems to be designed only to annoy the user to be kept at the default.
  • Low availability - I wouldn't declare myself as a heavy Facebook user, but even though I regularly get "Page is currently not available, try later" message or load of the page just dies and the content remains disabled in grey and the only way is to reload the page - even the links on the page do not work anymore?!

That reminds me of another "UI comparison" that hits the nail - Regular TV remote vs. Apple remote.


Posted by Charon | Permalink | Categories: Technology

Wed 28.04.2010 10:25

Track of the week

Technicolour & Komatic - Dickinson's rocket [Play sample]


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Wed 21.04.2010 22:19

Steve's razor

Found an interesting article discussing the same strategy/process behind original Apple Mac in 1984 and today with iPhone/iPad. One of the original Mac developers describes Steve Job's success formula. Check at least IMO most inspiring chapters "Fearless leader" and "Steve's razor".


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Fri 16.04.2010 11:25

Track of the week

Nuclear - Hidden weapon [Play sample]


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Thu 08.04.2010 16:05

Early spring nature patterns

A few images of the patterns found in the nature in a much darker day than this one.

Dark nature patterns 1 Dark nature patterns 2 Dark nature patterns 3 Dark nature patterns 4

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Posted by Charon | Permalink | Categories: Travel

Thu 25.02.2010 12:28

Tasty beverage

Found two new tasty non-alcoholic beverages during last which deserve to be mentioned to the world.

First Belvoir Ginger Ale is the second best Gigner Ale I've ever tasted. The first place is questinable as it was something called "Ginger soda" in a indian-vegie restaurant in India town in Kuala Lumpur, something that almost created a flame when I breathed out. Anyway Belvoir (unlike wide-spread run of the mill from Coca Cola/Pepsi) features delicate ginger taste, is not ultra-sweet and last but not least it is strong. Check it out at Pause cafe.

The other notable drinking regime improvement of this week came from SodaStream soda machine I have received. It was packed with two syrup flavors for the soda and yet again ... tasty, without a ton of sugar and in this case much cheaper than PET bottled sodas. You also save the Earth with it!


Posted by Charon | Permalink | Categories: General

Wed 24.02.2010 12:56

Yet another wall

This time pics quality is really low. Blame crappy iPhone camera and a bug in picture scaling in almost any software out there (if it applies here).

Wall1 Wall2 Wall3

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Posted by Charon | Permalink | Categories: Art

Tue 23.02.2010 10:01

Track of the week

Komatic - Earth turns [Play sample]


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Tue 16.02.2010 12:23

Zivel 30 is out!

Just received the latest Zivel issue and (unfortunately) just sampled the content so far. As usual it has nutritious and yummy trip to alternative with packed audio CD. This time Dogma sound - underground female hip hop sound (the highlights: Kid Sister - Get Fresh and Rye Rye - Bang). And as the bonus ... I loaded Zivel's page by the way and found a link to new Perak comics project! Story and concept art within ... der Mythus, der Kult, die Wissenschaft!


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Mon 01.02.2010 12:23

Evil track of the week

Nevroz - Lost Cells (Axi remix) [Play sample]


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