http://vondervotteimittiss.com/belfry There are no bats here. Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:47:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Intrigued by the title of this post? Check out the post on my Magic Flute site. http://vondervotteimittiss.com/belfry/?p=68 I really don't understand the folks in the audiophile community that claim that tube amplifiers sound better than transistor units. I mean, for some time now, solid-state audio amplifiers have been capable of reproducing the input signal with virtually perfect fidelity. Maybe I should say 'didn't understand'. Let me explain. In my ... http://vondervotteimittiss.com/belfry/?p=57 Well, it has certainly been some time time since the last post. The blog was, in fact, not even available for a while because of a hack attack. It took some time to get it back up and running but here I am again. I really don't know what is ... http://vondervotteimittiss.com/belfry/?p=54 I just saw a news report about Microsoft at CeBIT and the big thing was their "new" Surface interface. (Well, actually the report began with the decision of the EU to impose an 899 million Euro fine on MS for failing to live up to the decision in 2004 that ... http://vondervotteimittiss.com/belfry/?p=52 I just saw a TED talk about the "new" Microsoft World Wide Telescope project (http://worldwidetelescope.org/) and it pissed me off. Not because the project is a not a worthy one. In fact it looks like a very cool thing. But it was the usual, from them, implication that this was ... http://vondervotteimittiss.com/belfry/?p=51 Well the time is here to start thinking about the next bicycle tour. Last year we went to southern France and had a great time but this year I am thinking I would like to stay closer to home. Members of the group live in Munich and Hamburg and I thought ... http://vondervotteimittiss.com/belfry/?p=50 Well, the annual Cyclassics bicycle race was today, Sunday, August 19, in Hamburg. I was registered again for the 100km course. But because of bad weather and not a little laziness and also because my race partner was out of town for the wedding of a friend I didn't feel ... http://vondervotteimittiss.com/belfry/?p=48 This is the second part of the trip report for our tour in southern France. The cast of characters were three, Andreas, Thomas, and myself. The tour went from Avignon to Nice. Part one is described in the previous post. I had started this whole thing with the suggestion that we ... http://vondervotteimittiss.com/belfry/?p=40 Over the next few days I will be posting some impressions of our tour in southern France. We experienced a lot in that week. It was a great tour and a great time but there where down sides and I want to discuss them as well. But in the first ... http://vondervotteimittiss.com/belfry/?p=34 A recent round of correspondence reminded me of an old theory of mine. So, this post is part autobiography, part philosophy and part speculative fiction. Here goes... I grew up in San Jose, California. This was in the sixties, before this once small town became part of what is now known ... http://vondervotteimittiss.com/belfry/?p=33