It’s been exactly one year since I’ve had laser eye surgery. As aftercare I got a number of checkups: the next day, one month and three months later, and, finally, after a year.
New look a year later
Logitech Wireless Adapter for Bluetooth Review
I once needed to connect my PC’s audio output to the AV receiver to enjoy music played by decent speakers. The distance between the desktop and the receiver is a few meters, and I didn’t want to get entangled by wires (it’s the third millennium after all).
The almighty Internet offered an elegant solution, in the spirit of the millennium, concisely called Logitech Wireless Speaker Adapter for Bluetooth® audio devices:
Star Wars I + 3D + D-Box
At last, yesterday I’ve tried rocking-moving-trembling D-Box chairs I posted about more than a year ago. I saw an advertisement in a local newspaper about Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace reissued in 3D and with D-BOX Motion Code™.
Happy New Year!
Happy New two thousand twelfth!
For me this year brought significant changes, and I hope they’re for the better.
Johannes Heesters passed away
Johannes Heesters, an entertainer born in Amersfoort, who felt unwell just a few weeks ago, died on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2012, aged 108.
Google Music Integration into Ubuntu
About a month ago I posted about Google Music cloud music storage service opening for public (which is still officially available in the US only).
Uploading 130 GB of music to the cloud has completed in about four days, so now I can enjoy the whole collection online from anywhere—although with some shortcomings (which are perhaps to be eliminated once the service goes out of the beta).
Johannes Heesters
Singer and actor Johannes Heesters, who was born in Amersfoort, is again in local news.
He turns 108 on the coming Monday, December 5, which he wanted to celebrate by singing operetta. However about a week ago he got fever and felt unwell, so he is in the hospital now. His 80 year old daughter Wiesje Herold commented: “In his 108 Jopie is no longer the youngest. But he is a jack.”
Bus conductors
The outcome of a poll just held on BBC says that 81% of the British would be willing to pay 25% more for the ticket, if they could see conductors in buses again.
Amersfog
An ear for music
And—here we go: at last long-suffering long-awaited Google Music went public—the thing I’ve been eagerly waiting for so long! I’d be happy to send my 130 GB of music up in the cloud. I perfectly fit into the free limit of twenty thousand files.
In Vino Veritas
One of the things that make me wonder is comparison of prices for alcohol in Holland and Russia, and especially their relationship with the quality.
Alex Exler considers 1000 rubles (€ 25) for a bottle of decent wine in Moscow is a good deal. Here in Holland you would usually buy a collection item for this price, and definitely not Chateau Tour 2006. Even taking into account local alcohol prices are substantially higher than, say, in Germany.
Storm Alert
Штормовое предупреждение (Russian for Storm Alert) is a prelude to Ураган (“Hurricane”). This track was composed and recorded by Igor Abakumov and me back in 2002–2003.