I have moved this blog!

After a very long time and quite a lot of hours spent. I have finally moved this blog to its new home.

TetrisRockstar.com

I will keep this blog up for a while to let everyone change their booksmarks and RSS feeds.

Please note, everything on this blog is now over at tetrisrockstar.com. Please update your booksmarks now!

Out biking today!

Awesome weather today as well so I went for a bike-ride!
It’s still a little cold so my throat sort of starts to hurt. But anyway, was kind of fun! I think I was out for a little more than an hour. I used an iPhone app to track my ride and you can see the route below.

Making pancakes

Wondering why I’m making pancakes at 11pm? I have no fucking clue.

If I were unemployed, I’d probably just make pancakes 24/7. But then I’d be a baker, so then I wouldn’t be unemployed, so I wouldn’t make pancakes, and I’d loose my job.

Tokyo Vice

I just finished reading Tokyo Vice. It’s a book about being a journalist in Japan, about the Japanese sex industry and about the Japanese mob (yakuza).

The book markets itself as being very much about the yakuza and revealing some amazing stories about the yakuza, and it does. The only problem I had with it is that it’s equally as much about the authors life in Japan and the sex industry. The information about the sex industry was just as interesting, if not more interesting, than the information about the yakuza though. The information about the authors life was, well, a 4 out of 10 read.

I would recommend the book, but only if you really can’t find anything better to read for the moment or are truly interested in reading about true investigative journalism.

I now know, perhaps more than I wanted, about the Japanese sex industry, human trafficking and the workings of the yakuza. Although I have two upcoming books that cover the sex industry and the yakuza respectively, so in a while I’ll know even more about it.

One funny little factoid I found in the book that was humorous is a weird way was that one of the biggest types of front-company for the yakuza is management consulting. Apparently a lot of yakuza are “management consultants”.

Muting all Xbox chat

Tired of 14 year old kids trying to be cool by swearing a lot on Xbox chat? Yeah, me too. So I figured out a solution!

When you have your headset plugged in, the sounds obviously goes to the headset, but I don’t want to hear anything at all and I don’t want a headset dangling from the control. So if you could just have the end of the headset (the 2.5 mm plug) and plug that in, it would effectively mute all sound.

When I bought my latest pair of headsets I got three of these 2.5 mm to 3.5 mm adapters with the headset (and I don’t need any of them) so this is what I did.

And now I don’t have to listen to any more annoying pissed off american kids or germans talking fast! Maybe I should start selling these? What do you think? :P

I could make it an official Xbox accessory and charge $299 for it.