Using iSync to Connect to a Nokia 3120 Classic

If you have like me a Nokia 3120 Classic and want to sync with your Mac using iSync, then Paul McCarthy has put a lot of effort into making a plugin for iSync to get this working. You can find the iSync plugin and all the information needed here in his blog entry. Thanks to Paul for all the effort to keep the plugin working despite he does not even have a Nokia 3120 Classic anymore! :-)

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Nasty Old Poeple

Here the trailer to the movie the sweedish film “Nasty Old People” which just has been released.

From the description:

This is Mette’s story. Member of a neo-Nazi gang, her day job is to take care of four seniors that all are just waiting to die. Her life becomes a journey into a burlesque fairytale, where the rules of the game are created by Mette herself. Mette is indifferent about her way of life, until she one night assaults a man, kicking him senseless. Waking up the day after, she realizes that something is wrong, and accompanied by the crazy oldies, she longs for respect and love. Together, they create a world of their own. A world you never knew existed.

The movie is published under a creative commons license and is freely available for download at the PirateBay. To support the movie one can donnate money to the project, I myself have just given them 5 Euro. Enjoy watching the movie!

The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello

Windows 7 Sins

A nice web page published by the Free Software Foundation: Windows 7 Sins. Definitely worthwhile for reading!

Trusted Places

One internet site which caught recently my attention: Trusted Places. I was surprised how many places they know about in Southampton. Just as an example: They know my two favourite take away places Super Chef and Portobello. And they have an entry for the neighbouring pub I started to visit more often: Duchess of Wellington. All not in any way belonging to the so called “big” places.

The information provided seems to be upto date and reliable. I should use the site to find some more interesting places… :)

PS: Then on the contrary, the number of places they know in Helsinki is rediculous! Just 5 at the time of writing… ;-)

Some Books…

I just finished “Love Remains” by Glen Duncan. A master piece!

Another great book I recently did read (and which I can greatly recommend) is “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini. Despite a great story it gives very interesting insights to the people from and their life in Afghanistan.

On my way back from Heathrow Airport to Southampton, a friendly man sitting next to me suggested me “The Shack” by William Paul Young. I have not started to read it yet, but will so soon…

Yet Another new Toy to Play

After I got machanical problems with my AF Nikkor 18-35mm f/1:3.5-4.5D (in addition that the picture quality was not good at all) I decided on my return from my holiday in Ukraine to buy a new lense. Not “new” as in never used before, but “new” as in new to me. After a short look on e-Bay I got hold on a AF Nikkor 18-70mm f/1:3.5-4.5G DX (review). A nice compact lense with very good picture quality and not to expensive, either. And the picture quality is much better comparet to my previous lense! And it is a 4x zoom instead only a 2x zoom! :-)

New Espresso Machine

As my espresso machine by Krups got old (very old actually) I recently obtained a GAGGIA Classic on e-Bay. I got it for a cheap price but still in perfect working condition.

Only the plastic attachment of the steam wand was missing (it was meant to help to get a better milk foam). Since this made the steam wand too short for operation I looked on the Internet for a replacement part for it. I got lucky at HappyDonkey.co.uk. More precisely, they have a separate page for GAGGIA Classic spare parts. There then a Rancilio Sylvia steam wand caught my attention. It is simpler than the original GAGGIA solution but just looks like doing a better job. I ordered it, and a two days later I had the new steam wand. The photo below shows the new and the old steam wand in comparison. Click on the photo to find some notes on installing the new steam wand:

What else: after one day of experimenting with the machine I finally got a very delicious result, espresso wise but also with the cappuccino. To use good and new (!) beans helps a lot here (I noticed that the beans I had still left from a long time since were expired about 2.5 years ago! … oops ;-) ). And the result is this:

TOR Browser on an USB Stick

The TORProject is a very powerfull tool to make internet trafic anonymous using an onion routing network. Now I just spotted that the TORProject provides a selfcontained browser boundle which lets you run a TOR enabled browser (Firefox) directly from an USB stick without the need to install any software on the computer. Just plug in the USB stick on which you have copied the TORBrowser and start surfing the internet without leaving a trace.