I really like my iPhone: my best phone ever! But there are things on it that will prevent me recommending it. Since I have a few Mac’s, I’m using . Mac, as of today MobileMe, to synchronize my contacts and calendars. I’m really not using anything else from the service. However, MobileMe is a waste of money. If you are in different countries, calling is a pain with a mobile. It’s even more expensive doing data transfers.

One of the best festivals in the world, Rock Werchter 2008 was again great! Some rain, lots of sun, a nice stench of alcohol and urine, ah, and good music! Some highlights (order of appearance, 4 days): The National: I missed it.. I missed it.. - I’m a big fan now! R.E.M.: they’re lost the momentum IMHO, but their new songs sound good Jay-Z: I’m no fan at all of the music, but this must have been the best hop-act in years on Werchter.

Nothing new, but I’m very upset that I can’t use my birthday present my sister and parents gave me: an iTunes gift card. They bought it through the Belgian iTunes store, but they didn’t realize I couldn’t use it since I live in Germany. Just now I asked Apple through the ‘feedback’ feature what I shall do. I wonder when I’ll get a rely.. Maybe we should get the music industry before court?

I’m using spreadsheets from time to time to keep minutes of phone calls. Definitely not the best way to do it, but.. well.. In these spreadsheets I have a column with numbers and I want them to link to a website so it opens up the case the notes are related too. I ended up using ‘Find & Replace’ like this in OpenOffice 3.0 (should work since 2.4): Find: ([0-9]{4,5}) Replace: =HYPERLINK("https://yourwebsite.

Listening to The National’s ‘City Middle’ I wondered who Tennessee Williams is. Reading up, I learned how he died.. Choked on the cap of his eye drop bottle.. Anyway, another year browsing earth behind me, I celebrated and still celebrating it in my current hometown Aschaffenburg. Past night in the pub it was really great with Julia and Ingo surprising me with a birthday cake and candles to blow out! And some great gifts like a freshly made Freiwild MacBook Air sleeve.