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Liebe Freunde und Familie,

ich wünsche Euch allen geruhsame Feiertage im Kreise eurer Lieben, ein wunderschönes Weihnachtsfest und viel Glück, Gesundheit und alles was man sonst noch so braucht für das neue Jahr!

Dear friends & family,

I wish you all a merry Christmas with your loved ones and all the best for a healthy, joyful 2010.

Thomas.

I am a huge fan of the slimdevices series (aquired by Logitech at some point). What it does is, it allows you to stream your music anywhere in the house with little (or bigger) boxes connected to your stereo or standalone.

Squeezecenter, the server software which provides the streams to the hardware clients has been supporting last.fm for ages, but at some point the listening feature stopped working for me. I didn't really have the time to investigate any further than upgrading all the software to the latest releases, which didn't solve the issue. Today I finally came across the solution

Settings->Player->Audio->"MP3 Streaming Method" should be set to
Proxied streaming

That did the trick for me. Finally, last.fm is playing again! I'm putting this out hoping someone else desperate to get this up and running again will find the information more easily.

I just came across this really good set of slides by David Gillespie on the state of the internet and were it goes from here.

I know it's a lot of slides, but well worth browsing through. For me one of the crucial points is Clay Shirky's quote:

... tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

The internet has become mainstream for so many people so quickly while still being in it's infancy compared to other important technological developments of the past centuries.

Once again I'm off on a journey to a good friends wedding ceremony. This time I'm traveling to Bogotá, Colombia to attend Isabella & Juan Diego's wedding.

Right now I'm in Toronto about to head out to the airport again for my flight to Bogota. Toronto feels really similar to New York City, same language, same road signs, just a little smaller. Last night, over dinner and some beer, I caught up with Jakob, a former colleague from OPTIMAbit who lives over here now. Great seeing him again. The Weißwurst that I had packed for him as a gift from home didn't make it through customs, though, but at least he got a glass of Hendlmeier Senf ;)

Depending on how much time I have and on the availability of internet connections I will post again from Colombia as well, so stay put for more.

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