Mood:  loud

After a few years of silence Clive Sinclair gets more and more public interest again. After last years rush on Sir Clive (BBC’s Micro Men and Electric Dreams programmes), his wedding with a former Lap dancer this spring and his 70th birthday coming soon, the appearance of the recent pop song "Clive Sinclair" by Electric Disorder proves that Sir Clive Sinclair has become a part of Britain’s pop culture.

Watch the music video of Electric Disorder's pop song "Clive Sinclair" on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub7FH0c2vO4

You can even buy the song on iTunes if you like.

Happy Sinclair day!
Urs
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Mood:  bright

It’s already two weeks since the "Moon meets Mars" event which took place on Feb 24th 2010 in the Verkehrshaus Lucerne (Swiss Transport Museum). Meanwhile I found the time to review the material that I’ve shot. Finally I made a short movie out of the best pieces. My personal highlight is the scene where Edgar D. Mitchell tells us what was his most important experience flying to the moon.

To round up the movie I’ve added a copy of the referring article in the NLZ (Neue Luzerner Zeitung) daily news paper and some related images taken at NASM (National Air and Space Museum) and KSC (Kennedy Space Center) during my US trips way back in 2002 and 2004. Enjoy the movie!

Mood:  caffeinated

Yesterday the last furniture hauling to my Lake Valley site completed the setup of my new offices. The site is now fully functional. It includes both offices and labs.

See me exhausted at my desk after a hard working and very busy day.

Today Steve Jobs is celebrating his 55th birthday. As a kind of birthday present a friend of mine sent me something great to reveal. Even it's in Swedish with English subtitles take yourself 2 minutes and watch this movie:
http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1267015717825RA21

Later on this evening I will view the movie “The Marsdreamers” and meet Edgar Mitchell who was the 6th man on the moon.

A special day for me in many aspects (past, present, future).

After a full day preview last summer, a hands-on-lab using beta 2 software in January and another full day with Microsoft today, I finally decided for the tools to build the next line of applications. Here they are: VS2010, SL4, .NET4, Expression Blend, WCF RIA services, ADO.NET Entity Framework and SQL Server.

Today (01-27-2010) Apple launched their latest product, the tablet alike PC named iPad (fka iSlate). In a Hollywood like launch press conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco, CA Steve made one of his best performances ever. But somehow he got back 23 years during his keynote speach...

Today was the kick off for the next line of applications. Due to a NDA I can't tell much more for now. Please be patient. www.cowo.ch will be the place to track the progress once we go public.

P.S. It’s exactly a year since I unleashed the “QL is 25” bash.

Almost exactly a year after the infamous QL computer Sir Clive Sinclair launched the C5 vehicle on January 10th 1985. Britains ITV reported on the event in their NEWS at TEN.

Today Linus Torvalds celebrated his 40th birthday. Congratulations. My virtual birthday present is still not ready. Please check out my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/user/QLvsJaguar tomorrow.