My first Time — Impressions using Joost

unexpected wind hose on Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 1998Carlos from Flash Enabled kindly offered an invitation to joost. Since I was looking for a way to watch the AC2007 matches online with a fairly slow connection (512 kB/s) — hence looking for quality video caching — I gave it a try (I haven’t afforded a digital tv card, yet). Discovering a broadcast for those races was disappointed. Instead I was solaced with “X Force – Episode 5: The Science of Sailing“, a report on 1998th Sydney Hobart Yacht Race (630 nm).

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How ebay Germany helps us to learn whom we buy from

Have you ever wanted to know what size of bra your opponent has you should consider buying at ebay Germany. The German radio station B5 aktuell pointed out that in their broadcast “Das Computermagazin” on April 8th this year ebay happily send address data to those whose bid was accepted. Using google earth, google maps respectively and ebays’ lists of previous bids it seamed an easy task to find out about the seller’s erotic favours and optic abilities. The best bit is the ironic manner in which the journalist talks about his findings. If you know German you should digg right into Minute 10 of B5s’ podcast and find out about the Bremen newspaper.