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Today, I came across a funny video about the recent elections in the Netherlands. It’s Dutch, so foreign people will not understand it.

Ladies and gentlemen, please take a moment to thank Sony on your knees for producing yet another type of Memory Sticks: Memory Stick Micro. I was on the lookout for a new mobile phone last week, so I decided to buy the Sony Ericsson W300i, primarily because it features bluetooth (which I ‘need’ for my notebook) and because it is a Walkman phone which appealed to me since I got tired of carrying my 20gb hard drive mp3 player. The package comes with a pre-installed 256mb memory card, which is one of these new Micro things. No, not MicroSD (opposed to what several reviews on the internet state), but Memory Stick Micro. Yes, it’s tiny, but why does the world need memory card type #14642? Bah.

Yesterday, before I went to bed, I caught this nice little fella. If you look well enough, you should be able to see his/her eyes. I have no idea what kind of spider it is though? Might be a small Wolf spider perhaps? Or am I being too paranoid?

“Roaaarrrrrrrr!”

After crying over the purchase of a certain card reader, I was pleasantly surprised and cheered up by a scene from an Indian movie, which must have been a blockbuster for sure. Enter Little Superstar!

Since my ThinkPad does not feature an integrated card reader, I thought it would be sensible to buy a SanDisk PCMCIA card reader, to slide in comfortably. I also assumed that it would be fast, since there are Fast Ethernet NICs available in PCMCIA format. But no. No. It’s slow as hell.

And so, once more, I’m disappointed after buying something new.

So, my advice is: DO check whether PCMCIA cards are able to operate at a high speed prior to purchase, if that’s important to you.

“Hi, are you sleepy? No problem, just sleep while I’m transferring a few bits in the next couple of hours!”