http://files.thilosophy.com Everything Thilo feels he needs to share ... en I have just finished watching the six episodes of the BBC mini-series Sherlock, and while it is an excellent production, I have two big complaints about it... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/02/04#game_of_shadows This photo was NOT taken three hours ago... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/02/02#more_than_three_hours_ago One area where treebooks come out ahead of ebooks are christmas presents... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/01/29#steve_jobs We'll spend the first week of the Chinese New Year in Xiamen, which is a two-hour flight from here... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/01/22#xiamen Speaking of rich "alphabets", I encountered my first Chinese CAPTCHA this week, on the Ikea page, where Cissy was selecting a free promotional gift... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/01/18#captcha What is going on with the Euro... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/01/17#euro Now that I have three Twitter accounts, I have to say I am very grateful that the 140 character limit is indeed a 140 character limit, and not a 140 byte limit... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/01/15#140 I am not much of a music listener, and my iPod is mostly used for podcasts, but when I do listen to songs I obsess about play counts... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/01/10#play_counts Part Twelve... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/01/07#reida_wall_clock Everything Thilo feels he needs to overshare ..... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/01/03#thiloplus In China, the Lunar New Year is more important than the Gregorian one... http://files.thilosophy.com/2011/12/30#suzhou If you are looking for a last-minute Christmas gift for yourself or others, or just some computer game entertainment for the holidays, consider the Humble Indie Bundle, the fourth installment of which is currently available, but only for two more days... http://files.thilosophy.com/2011/12/25#humble_indie_bundle_4 I was quite surprised to find the new iTunes Match icon which must have appeared sometimes last week... http://files.thilosophy.com/2011/12/20#itunes_match There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife... http://files.thilosophy.com/2011/12/18#graveyard_book Pioneer One is a science-fiction TV show about a satellite crashing near the US border in Canada and the team of Homeland Security officers dispatched to investigate it... http://files.thilosophy.com/2011/12/14#pioneer_one I have to admit that I have never read any of the famous Hergé comic books, so that I do not know how true Steven Spielberg's take on characters, topics and atmosphere is to the source material, but I am pretty sure that he injected a healthy dose of Indiana Jones into the mix that was not there before... http://files.thilosophy.com/2011/11/19#tintin I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare--or, if not, it's some equally brainy lad--who says that it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping... http://files.thilosophy.com/2011/11/18#my_man_jeeves Amazon is trying to re-launch in China, and as part of their rebranding (they are changing their Chinese name) they are advertising with the domain name z.cn... http://files.thilosophy.com/2011/11/16#z.cn Angry Birds and Plants versus Zombies are popular in China, too, and the appeal of the cartoon characters has far extended the computer (or rather... http://files.thilosophy.com/2011/11/14#angry_zombies I like cloud computing... http://files.thilosophy.com/2011/11/12#mycloud