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[23 May 2009 | No Comment | Read 8 Times]
DVD Region Codes

I’m quite a foreign film fan. I especially like the German films, however Swedish and Austrian films are not too far behind. It’s pretty hard to track down some of the films however. Thanks to YouTube it is quite easy to get a hold of trailers, but getting the entire movie, well, sometimes its impossible to track down the DVD or VHS if I’m desperate. Unfortunately it might result in tracking down a torrent file or an irc channel to source down the film. But is this my fault? Have …

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[18 May 2009 | No Comment | Read 24 Times]
The Gates of Sport Sponsorship

I think following a sport or joining a club is an excellent way to make sure one gets outdoors every week. Forcing you to acknowledge that indeed there are other human beings on this planet and not just night elves fending off the Horde. No, I don’t play WoW, but it has unfortunately however infiltrated my brain thanks to the bad habits of neighbouring friends. Anyways, I love going to the game, keeping track of where my favourite team is on the ladder and who needs to lose each week …

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[15 May 2009 | No Comment | Read 16 Times]
Food, Not Pixie Dust

I was recently overseas in North America for a holiday a few months back. It was a wake up call to be honest. For a long time now I had wondered how commercial and consumer driven the American public was. I always had this idea of pizza monsters roaming the food courts munching down on fast food and slurping down mega gulps to fuel their oversized behinds. However I was in Canada, the baby of America. Could it really be what I thought America would be like, compared to my …