Not too bad…but not really good either…ah well, I guess 90s and above is more my kind of music
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A mate just informed me that the Dreamhost promotion code “777” is still valid for new customers. So if you need hosting and would like a full featured account (2.4GB space, 120GB traffic, shell-access, …) head over to Dreamhost and sign-up for the crazy-domain-insane package (yearly payment) and enter the promotion code 777 and you’ll receive the first year of hosting including 1 top-level domain for $9.24 after the major rebate…please use the Dreamhost-button on the right hand menu or this referral-link – that way I’ll get “some” referral money :-)

Amazon germany has announced the start of their very own online DVD rental service.

Best thing: no shipping & handling fees!
This looks really promising…I guess I’ll wait and see for there title-list to expand a little first though…

One spam bot or even numerous spam bots hitting your blog: 0$
Not having to deal with over 500 comments due to Kitten’s Spaminator: 0$
Not turning off the email notification of the Spaminator: priceless :wink:

Weird how shipping and handling cost can really boost up the total amount on a bill:

I just ordered 10 different used hard-cover books from Alibris…they cost 39,70$…now add 7,95$ per item to that…10×7,95 = 79,50$ for a grand total of 114,60$ (that’s 87,72 Euro)…

Bugger! Sadly enough this is still cheaper than ordering those books via Amazon.de or Amazon.com :wink: :-( :-)

Tonight one of my forums were defaced – I guess due to my recent unawareness of a critical update (phpbb version 2.13) :-(

No real harm done, but some work to do (thank god I keep backups of both databases and content at all times, so I just really had to do the following things:

• Restore customized template – check
• Restore parts of the DB – check
• Change PW of the DB itself – check
• Change PW of the admin-user – check
• Notify the users of breach and suggest PW change – check

In total: 25minutes of my life…argh…and all that just to have a forum for my football-team… :mrgreen: )

Found via Neil’s World. Copy the top 250 from imdb and mark the ones you’ve seen…Here’s my list:

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
4. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
5. Seven Samurai (1954)
6. Casablanca (1942)
7. Schindler’s List (1993)
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
9. Citizen Kane (1941)
10. Star Wars (1977)
11. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
12. Pulp Fiction (1994)
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
14. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
15. Rear Window (1954)
16. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
17. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
18. The Usual Suspects (1995)
19. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
20. City of God (2002)
21. 12 Angry Men (1957)
22. Memento (2000)
23. Psycho (1960)
24. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
25. North by Northwest (1959)
26. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
27. Amélie (2001)
28. Goodfellas (1990)
29. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
30. Sunset Boulevard. (1950)
31. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
32. American Beauty (1999)
33. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
34. Apocalypse Now (1979)
35. The Matrix (1999)
36. Paths of Glory (1957)
37. Fight Club (1999)
38. Vertigo (1958)
39. The Third Man (1949)
40. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
41. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
42. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
43. Double Indemnity (1944)
44. Das Boot (1981)
45. Taxi Driver (1976)
46. M (1931)
47. The Pianist (2002)
48. Rashômon (1950)
49. Se7en (1995)
50. All About Eve (1950)
51. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
52. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
53. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
54. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
55. Chinatown (1974)
56. Some Like It Hot (1959)
57. L.A. Confidential (1997)
58. Léon (1994)
59. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
60. Alien (1979)
61. American History X (1998)
62. Modern Times (1936)
63. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
64. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
65. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
66. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
67. The Sting (1973)
68. On the Waterfront (1954)
69. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
70. Raging Bull (1980)
71. Ran (1985)
72. Amadeus (1984)
73. Life is Beautiful (1997)
74. Touch of Evil (1958)
75. The Great Escape (1963)
76. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
77. City Lights (1931)
78. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
79. The Apartment (1960)
80. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
81. Metropolis (1927)
82. The Shining (1980)
83. High Noon (1952)
84. Jaws (1975)
85. Aliens (1986)
86. Finding Nemo (2003)
87. Annie Hall (1977)
88. Braveheart (1995)
89. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
90. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)
91. Fargo (1996)
92. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
93. Oldboy (2003)
94. Yojimbo (1961)
95. The Incredibles (2004)
96. Blade Runner (1982)
97. Strangers on a Train (1951)
98. Donnie Darko (2001)
99. The Sixth Sense (1999)
100. The Princess Bride (1987)
101. The Seventh Seal (1957)
102. The Great Dictator (1940)
103. It Happened One Night (1934)
104. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
105. Forrest Gump (1994)
106. Before Sunset (2004)
107. Cinema Paradiso (1989)
108. The General (1927)
109. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
110. Mononoke-hime (1997)
111. Rebecca (1940)
112. Duck Soup (1933)
113. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
114. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
115. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
116. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
117. The Big Sleep (1946)
118. Notorious (1946)
119. Smultronstället (1957)
120. The Graduate (1967)
121. Hero (2002)
122. Unforgiven (1992)
123. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
124. The Deer Hunter (1978)
125. Patton (1970)
126. Run Lola Run (1998)
127. Toy Story 2 (1999)
128. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
129. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
130. The Gold Rush (1925)
131. Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
132. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
133. The Elephant Man (1980)
134. Back to the Future (1985)
135. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
136. Glory (1989)
137. The Green Mile (1999)
138. Ben-Hur (1959)
139. Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)
140. Grande illusion, La (1937)
141. Manhattan (1979)
142. Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
143. Platoon (1986)
144. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
145. Gone with the Wind (1939)
146. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
147. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
148. Shrek (2001)
149. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
150. The African Queen (1951)
151. His Girl Friday (1940)
152. Ikiru (1952)
153. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
154. The Searchers (1956)
155. Mystic River (2003)
156. Die Hard (1988)
157. Amores perros (2000)
158. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
159. Hotaru no haka (1988)
160. A Christmas Story (1983)
161. The Wild Bunch (1969)
162. Life of Brian (1979)
163. Stalag 17 (1953)
164. Big Fish (2003)
165. The Hustler (1961)
166. Charade (1963)
167. Gladiator (2000)
168. Young Frankenstein (1974)
169. Sideways (2004)
170. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
171. The Straight Story (1999)
172. Talk to Her (2002)
173. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
174. The Killing (1956)
175. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
176. A Night at the Opera (1935)
177. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
178. Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, La (1928)
179. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
180. Spartacus (1960)
181. Lost in Translation (2003)
182. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
183. Magnolia (1999)
184. Harvey (1950)
185. Strada, La (1954)
186. Ed Wood (1994)
187. Sling Blade (1996)
188. The Terminator (1984)
189. Toy Story (1995)
190. Groundhog Day (1993)
191. Untergang, Der (2004)
192. All the President’s Men (1976)
193. The Lion in Winter (1968)
194. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
195. Roman Holiday (1953)
196. Festen (1998)
197. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
198. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
199. Trainspotting (1996)
200. 8½ (1963)
201. Finding Neverland (2004)
202. Laura (1944)
203. Brazil (1985)
204. The Conversation (1974)
205. Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
206. The Insider (1999)
207. Almost Famous (2000)
208. Dogville (2003)
209. The Station Agent (2003)
210. Gandhi (1982)
211. Stand by Me (1986)
212. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
213. Persona (1966)
214. King Kong (1933)
215. Fanny och Alexander (1982)
216. The Exorcist (1973)
217. The 39 Steps (1935)
218. Rain Man (1988)
219. Mulholland Drive (2001)
220. Stagecoach (1939)
221. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
222. Being John Malkovich (1999)
223. The Big Lebowski (1998)
224. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
225. Rio Bravo (1959)
226. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
227. Network (1976)
228. Snatch. (2000)
229. 21 Grams (2003)
230. The Thin Man (1934)
231. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
232. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
233. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
234. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
235. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
236. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
237. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
238. The Right Stuff (1983)
239. Barry Lyndon (1975)
240. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
241. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
242. Miller’s Crossing (1990)
243. Garden State (2004)
244. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
245. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
246. The Untouchables (1987)
247. Heat (1995)
248. The Last Picture Show (1971)
249. Fa yeung nin wa (2000)
250. Kumonosu jô (1957)

78 out of 250…could be more (as I’m a true movie nut) although some of those movies are just too old for me (I really don’t like ooold movies all that much)…

It’s been a while since I checked the net for new useful tools, today I did and found one: GMail drive shell extension. Now I can use my gmail-account as a virtual 1GB hdd, nice :mrgreen:

Props to engadget.

Advanced Beginner
You scored 100% Beginner, 73% Intermediate, 81% Advanced, and 55% Expert!
You have a good understanding of beginner and advanced commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of the beginner and advanced level questions correct. You didn’t get as many of the intermediate level questions correct, but don’t fret. This is not a bad score at all. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don’t use them properly anyway. You got a respectable score.

Not bad as english isn’t my first language :mrgreen:
Found via Neil’s World