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This is a follow-up to my previous post about a video with a remarkable and talented young drummer. Apparently, there are a lot more exceptionally talented young boys out there. Here’s what I found while scanning youtube.com…
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Yesterday, I went to the cinema with my girlfriend to watch the new Bond movie, “Casino Royale”. I must say that I liked it very much and in my humble opinion it’s the best 007 flick since “Golden Eye”. The agent himself is as coy and full of British sarcasm as always, but he’s more brutal than in the previous movies. Even the other characters call him a ruthless killing machine. But I can’t say that I liked everything in the movie…
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Maybe you’ve already seen this video, but all I can say is WHOA! This young dude rocks big time! He’s only twelve, but he slams ‘dem drums like a pro.

Click here to see the video.

Maybe he’ll be the next Bonzo or Cozy Powell ? Only the future can tell, but I expect great things from this young “drummer boy”.

I know for a fact that not many people acknowledge this fact, but for me and many others the answer is YES! Sound quality DOES in most cases also depend on the factor of where was the record manufactured. And by using the term “record” I don’t mean only LP’s and vinyl singles. It’s the same with CD’s, cassettes, LD’s (LD = LaserDisc) and probably also SACD’s and (nowadays pretty rare) pre-recorded tape reels. I don’t know if this is also a fact for video cassettes (either VHS, SVHS, Beta or other standards), DVD’s or the (supposedly deemed “dead”) DVD-A’s…
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OK it’s time to make a pause on all (well, 2 for now to be exact) posts regarding the blog’s technical side, let’s get back to some of the main topics …

For some time I’ve been using Linux (for those of you who don’t know what Linux is: it’s another kind of operating system. To put it in a nutshell: consider it as a more “open” Windows), the well known Debian distribution to be exact. I’ve configured all the multimedia applications (music/video players, etc.), but I still lacked something. Then, while skipping through the available software, I stumbled upon the piece of software called “streamtuner”. That’s when I re-discovered internet radio stations…
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