Geekblok

Storing data is not a problem anymore. Google gives you a couple of gigabytes email storage for free, Yahoo! gives you “unlimited” email storage, a plethora of sites like YouSendIt and Files4Ever give you plenty of storage, and hooking up your own machine to the online world never has been easier with all the cheap ADSL/Cable connections we have nowadays. All good, but not fun. Therefor, let’s store text in a place people wouldn’t suspect (and probably don’t want).

Like the avalanche of file sharing websites mentioned before, another breed of website seems to be quite popular: the URL shorteners. TinyURL, is.gd, etc. etc. There are many and a lot of them don’t care what you feed them! (I bet you start seeing where I’m going with this post…)

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MySpace is probably the biggest in the world and Dutch social networking site Hyves went over five million members last Wednesday.

So why another new “social”? Well… because this one is antisocial: Bugroff.

Guess this opens some opportunities for Web 3.0, heh-heh!

I grew up with the Commodore 64 (unlike BOK) and sometimes good old memories pop up. In the past I’ve posted an article on my personal blog regarding C64 music.

After seeing some footage on YouTube of Commodore Amiga games, I wondered if an all time favorite of my C64 days could be queried. The good old game of Aztec Challenge!

It can be queried very well, which led me to the band called PRESS PLAY ON TAPE, a Danish band playing (almost) nothing but C64 tunes.

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How much money do you make? Of course most of us know the answer to that question. We know how much we make, the horrible chunk the government takes from us and what is left per week/month. But do you have any clue how much money you make per second (or looking at this post)?

Cashto will tell you how much you make per day/hour/minute/second. Fun! (well … fun if you make enough)