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There are other occasions that some feel compelled to devote time in a waiting line for, take Die Hard 4.0 as an example:

Apparently nothing important is happening in the world today, as most blogs seem to be occupied with either P. Hilton or the iPhone. Or both.

Well, here’s a fun review of the phone:

And a internet campaign/petition to make Mdm. Hilton go away, wrapped in a music video:

Gem from the Web:

• A Visual Digest by Fibre | Light Fantastic - A trippy set of colour photograms entitled Bending Light.

Today my oldest daughter would have had her 6th birthday. This summer she would have started in school. She would have swum in the lake, learned to cycle, laughed, cried and fought.

Life had different plans.

Six years later, I still do not understand why we were not allowed to meet her.

My thoughts go out to all who have lost someone.

In the past few weeks, Microsoft has managed to impress me, and impress me thrice. First with their campaign “Bring the love back” (link). Then they showed a new way of collecting meta data for photographs. And finally, they have a cool table-top computer in the works.

But then the old Microsoft factor jumped in. They just do not know marketing. When I visited their site, I was surprized how un-cool they managed to make their videos. Yes, they have a cool web-site, but the videos are just old-school; nicely made, but essentially boring. If I hadn’t seen the video from Popular Mechanics first, I wouldn’t have grasped how cool this thing really is. Worse yet, in the same week that Microsoft has the first public showing of this new Surface thing, everyone is talking about a mobile cell phone.

They have the means to pay for any type of ad strategy, but it seems that the problem is at the core of Microsoft. Stories are much more interesting than facts.

So, without further ado, a video that uses Microsoft footage with a new voice-over, putting the Surface computer into perspective:

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