Goods, brown and white

After my departure from Adobe I kind of landed another job within the same company that had Adobe as a client. They needed a Danish speaking agent for their Samsung support. So, there you go. I am learning everthing there is to learn about Samsung products, which happen to be anything electrical. TVs, monitors, refrigerators, microwaves, mobile phones, harddrives, vacuum cleaners, freezers, washing machines, printers, faxes, dishwashers, cameras and more.
In one of the training videos I heard the expression "interactive control panel" twice. That kept me thinking.

Sometimes it snows in Prague in April

Our Easter Holidays have been confirmed. After hours of intense battling with Czech Air's hopeless website, we managed to buy tickets online, and now we also found a place to stay. We chose to rent a private flat, quite centrally, to be able to cook our own food and to get away from that cheap-hotel-room-feeling. The flat can be studied online here, along with convenient information about local pubs and cafes and transport. Very nice. Czech Air could learn a lot just by studying Ms Bohmova's accessible pages.

That's that

My life as an Adobe software supporter ended Friday when Adobe closed their Edinburgh operations and moved the whole lot to the Netherlands.
After the phone lines closed for the last time - guess who were the last person to be online with a customer after everbody else had stopped? Yes, me - there was pizza and soft drinks for everyone. And a prize draw of Adobe products and the IBM computers we had be working on. I got lucky. Twice. Not even did I get number 30 out of 1000, which meant I was the third person to draw a prize. I drew a brand new copy of Adobe Creative Suite Premium in English for Macintosh. Couldn't have been better, really.
Now I am in the strange position that we own copies of Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, Indesign CS, GoLive CS and Acrobat 6 Pro. Hey.

Edinburgh 18 Januar 10:05am

Our street again, right from our front door, daytime.

Edinburgh 17 Januar 21:05

Sorry for the shaky picture, but I thought flash was a bit out of the question.

Trailer trash

I watched the trailer for Kingdom of Heaven, kindly pointed to by Sander, and it struck me that the trailers I have been watching lately bore me. They are so alike, so un-inspiring and all seem to be made by the same team of people. Alexander. Elektra. Boring. And that's a crime in an entertainment business.
There are good trailers out there. The Incredibles. House of Flying Daggers. And most notably Sin City, which must be the most stylish trailer in a long time. At least this one was not made but the team that churned out most of the other trailer thrash out there.

Here it is

So, sometimes rumours turn out true. The Mac mini is a reality. Words fail me. There is a God(s). Microsoft? See ya.
Mac mini

Apple price blaster

There are rumours out there about a new Apple iMac computer hitting the market next week, code-named Q88. The new Mac will sell for less than $500 without a monitor, which is £266 or less than 3000 Danish kroner. If this is just remotely true, this must be the best computer deal in the world, including if you buy used computers. Hell, in our part of the universe.
The Q88 is not only cheap, it's also tiny with its height being 1.73 inches, and comes with wireless built in - of course, who would even consider buying one without these days?
If you are a cheapskate Windows-sufferer out there, then you can now buy a second PC, which is a genuine Mac instead of this new harddisk/motherboard/processor/video card/whatever that keeps breaking down or is not working properly.
The picture is a design concept of how the Q88 could end up looking. If it's true.

Project 2005: Clay Oven

I have been toying with this idea for many years now, nearly ten I think. The crappy gas oven I've got at the moment has been the last straw. I want a real oven, an oven that can be hot as hell, or at least 350 degrees centigrade. I just have to build one myself.
This spring/summer is going to be it. I just need a place to build it and the good will of the gods. My practical/masonry skills are about as good as George Bush's ability to make a coherent point in a speech - even if he only has to read aloud.