Via vowe.net:

Julien is a “Domino consultant among thousands” as he describes himself. But now he has created a side business for his wife:

Skinizi is the best solution to give your iPod a personal touch and to protect it for every day use. Our artists have created some wonderful, whimsical designs for you. Please take a moment to browse these delightful iPod skins in our photo gallery!

This is how they look like:

And here you can get them.

PS: Julien mailed me that I happened to be the first customer ;)

ABC’s Lost somehow is my favourite TV show. A set of 4 different Lost jigsaw puzzles is now available in the US but unfortunately not within Europe — the publisher doesn’t even deliver outside of the US. I found a nice set of 3 of those 4 puzzles on eBay US — for a mere of 9$ — and bought them right away. Now only puzzle #4 of 4 is all I still need. Got one spare? :-)

I just received the key fob that generates onetime passwords for PayPal and eBay. Activation was easy — you just enter the serial number of the key fob and then two successive passwords generated by the device. Works like a charm.

Update: One thing that would be great — make this thing heavy. One RSA SecurID token weights about 3 times more and is kind of indestructible (I actually accidentally rolled over it with the car). The PayPal item works fine but if you squeeze you can hear cracking noise from the plastic.

New one is bigger :-)

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PayPal and eBay offered onetime password solution for their webservices using hardware token which can be ordered for 4,95€ from the PayPal Website (link german). This hardware token optionally offers an addition layer of security and it’s use can be activated on the service websites.

The token is provided via VeriSign but VeriSign itself obviously gets them from another manufacturer.

My poker equipment arrived! Too bad the postal service took so long — since I just had a day off on Monday. But this is something to look forward to for the weekend. Okay especially I will look forward seeing my girlfriend :-)

PS: Meanwhile I also ordered me a bluetooth GPS receiver that should also get delivered by Friday.

Got me some nice poker chips for serious gambling nights. I like their look. Poker somehow managed to gain enormous attraction. It got more popular than anytime before. All that I still need now is some neat poker table. Read the rest of this entry »

…I got an iPod, an iPod, an iPod….

I love my boyfriend so much. Why? Not because he gave me an iPod for Valentin’s Day but because he couldn’t stand it to hide it longer then two hours. In the middle of the week Sascha phoned me to tell me that he had already ordered my present for Valentin’s Day. And so the story starts… It was Friday. Round noon the ring bells on the door and I opened it. There was a man from UPS outside. There is not too much time with my boyfriend and so I took the package for him. You are right when you think: ‘Ah, the present for Valentin’s Day…’ So did I and smiled.
Some time later Sascha phoned me to tell me that two things could happen on this Friday:
First: UPS could maybe deliver a little package. - So this has already happened. ‘Oh,’ he said, ‘ then… that’s all.’ His voice sounded a little bit panicked. I mean the sort of panic when a surprise maybe wont be anymore a surprise. I picked him from the airport in the evening and the very first thing he did at home: he took the package and hurried in the sitting room. Alone… When I came into the same room he presented me his brand-new black iPod. It was like to see little children get their Christmas presents. I confess that I was jealous. But fortunately my boyfriend couldn’t stand it. So he asked me to lose my eyes. Not only to hide my face behind a opened book I read actually. So I closed my eyes behind this book. And he gave me my present. My iPod (PRODUCT) red! My very first Apple. So this is not only an iPod. With this special iPod Apple supports the Global Found to fight AIDS in Africa. (see http://www.joinred.com)

Got myself a nice iPod Nano 8GB black - yes I know the photo shows a green one, but i was unable to find a better picture. While getting one for me I also got a red one (the new special edition) for my girlfriend as a valentines day gift. Since I am unable to hide it from her till February 14th she already got it last Friday :-).

In return she bought the iSkins for our two iPods. Too bad that those iSkin packages only include a single transparent iSkin for the Nano. Anyone got a transparent one left *hint*?

Got my Dell Inspiron 9400 two weeks ago. Managed to destroy the preinstalled software once :-). But now it is fine again. I installed it with Ubuntu 6.10 and am enjoying the great Beryl window manager. It is dualbooting Windows XP MCE that was included for my gaming sessions at the hotel while being on travel. Read the rest of this entry »