We all know how memories - bad or good - influences our moods, feelings and even our health. Just I guess we are often not really aware about how much they do!

Recently while using my iPod I recognised that whenever I listen to a specific song my mood raises up instantly.
I immediately feel better and even start running around with a stupid smile on my face for no reason while listening to that song.

Sure I recognised that and felt curious about … but I had no idea about why this happens.

Now this week by coincidence I found out about the reason. Certainly it was forced by it wasn’t a real number one song at all and therefore I was not instantly able to remember that I’ve once used it as background music for one of my videos.

So it wasn’t the song itself. But the memories about places and folks and the good time I had their as for the reason making me feeling better at all. Glad it was a nice one though …. hey, where is my iPod right now?!!

"They’ve stolen the idea" was first I thought when I got aware about the brand new Dell Studio - Laptop advertisement.
Just three days more and you can get your own one … I personally would like a green or red one

Sure, sometimes it needs a while until companies do learn out of the success story of some competitor. But finally since "iPod era" has started, companies should know about people do love and pay for some individualism.

Finally with people are willing to pay more for some "red" iPod not offering at least one benefit or technical detail more than it’s blue, green or black siblings, colour DOES make a difference today for sure.

So the only point amazing about, for my feeling is that it needed that long at the end tough. Today’s usual grey or black notebook look is out and finally not enough anymore. Those styles make your brand new "baby", even when bought yesterday, appearing like an old and aged dinosaurs now.

Now looking closer at the Specs these new coloured laptop generation … They seems to be far way more than just "coloured gadgets" and even offered at a reasonable price - at least when you compare them with things like the ASUS eeePC and it’s clones.

Yeah, the future is COLOUR …. and I could not say I’m grumpy about!

Waaaahhhhhhhh…… I’m a real dinosaur!!

Can you imagine my face this morning when I recognised that I’m listening to the album Greatest Hits of "Sweet" on my iPod for days now? Ummmm! You don’t know Sweet? …. …. gulp

Then perhaps you might start a search for some songs like: Blockbuster, The Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage or Action! And I’m sure you  later on will find about it as worth you made some effort looking for it. For you the songs might be a bit covered with dust though! They are out of a time songs were still made honestly and with heart and not only looking at the charts. Songs which are free of that all technical tweaking stuff we used to "enjoy" today.

So I was really listening to it for 4 days without to recognise! I vaguely remember that I had  switched my iPod into repeat mode on Monday while listening to Ballroom Blitz. It was on my way home and feeling stressed about a lot of things going on actually keeping my brain busy all the time.

And as for you seems not to know about "Sweet" …. I MUST be a dinosaur for sure

Yesterday I did a bit of travelling. For business that was. And it was more or less crossing half the republic twice just for sitting together with a customer for 2 or 3 hours …. some situation just do need a face to face dialog, no question about the effort or time it needs.

At the end it was a very successful meeting and on my way home …. instead of sticking my head into the work I had carried with me, I decided to just switch on my iPod, listening to some music trying to relax by looking out of the windows enjoying the overwhelming green outside.

By coincidence (my iPod was on shuffle) I listened to a few songs from an album we bought during a vacation. Now sitting there watching out of the window of a running train listening to music my brain does link together with vacation and great memories I have I suddenly felt a deep longing …

Things which the world does not need!! That was my first thought about when I got aware about FlyakiteOSX.
But it would have need someone else and not me … not feeling tempted to play with it!

What is it this FlyakiteOSX? From principle it is a really clever piece of software you can install on top of a Windows XP or Windows Vista giving it the look and feel of Apple’s OSX … the actual version for sure!

Apple and therefore Apple products are generally swimming on a big hype wave here in Germany actually. For sure that comes from their clever marketing and things like the iPod and the iPhone now being in every mouth, but also MACs do have some serious renaissance actually.

Anyway, I’m sure it is me being some technical nerd at the end, asfor the reason that it needed exactly a few minutes for me to decide about to install it on some old spare system I had stored away in the basement …

So a new plain installation of Windows XP and an Office was done quickly! And an installation of Safari 3.1 for Windows to give it the final ultimate touch …. and I updated the system with this FlyakiteOSX 3.5 (be aware the first offered download did not work for me, 2nd was fine).

The installation went smooth and after the reboot the system came up telling me frankly and free it would now be OSX … ROFL

It is for sure just a gag, some fake …. and I really do not know, nor want to decide about, whether or not the world does need that stuff?!
But it’s for sure some genial piece of code and I lift my hat (symbolical for sure) giving honor to the guys who have written it.

Please go on with your great work, showing companies like Microsoft and Apple what can be done at the end … when human mind insist to do!!