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When I tried Spotify for the first time, i thought: I need this also for films and TV shows. Then when I head about Voddler, I got real excited and tried to get an invite straightaway. Hopes were way up.

The only way I could find to get an invite, was to make a video and get people to vote for your video. The top three videos each day, would get an invite. So I made the most embarrassing video ever, got people to watch and vote for it (Thanks everyone!), and received an invite in my mailbox the next day. Hopes were even more up then high up now.

Then came the first disappointment. When I tried to sign up, it would not let me because it was only available for Swedish users. Thankfully it let me cheat and enter a Swedish address. After all the trouble I went through, I decided I wanted to use the invite I was entitled to.

The second disappointment came when I downloaded and installed the client on my laptop, and realised it was incompatible with my graphics card. That’s the first time I have ever experienced anything being incompatible with a GeForce card. All I got was lots of flicker and the entire thing was simply unuseable.

Fortunately, I have a stationary computer hooked up to the television, and as this is where we watch the movies and TV shows we purchase, it would be OK to run voddler on there. So i installed it, and it ran fine on that one. Which made place for the third disappointment.

I mean, I had spotify-expectations here, and I like their model: Pay nothing, get ads, pay a monthly subscribtion fee and get no ads. Voddler does not work like that, you get ads before the film, and the real good stuff has to be paid for per film. I wasn’t planning on paying them quite yet, so I had to browse through the catalogue of free films. Basically this means you can watch old eddy murhpy movies, as well as bollywood movies that isn’t even real bollywood.

When I started watching a movie to check it out, the fourth disappointment presented itsself. The expect ads at the beginning, could not be paused or stopped. From the moment you push play, you get ads. When you then decide that you want a different movie, you can’t cause you can not stop the program until the ads are done and the movie starts. If you decide you want to make some popcorn, you can not pause the ads to do so, so you can choose between watching them and pausing the movie when it starts, or making popcorn while the ads run and risk that they finish and you miss the beginning of the movie, or having to rewind.

The fifth disappointment came when they announced that there was an update available for the client. I figured this update might be compatible with the graphics card on my laptop, so I eagerly installed it on both computers. The only difference was, that now both computers would try to instal the update on each boot.

This is when I gave up, but Voddler was not done disappointing me yet. The sixth disappointment came in my mailbox. They wrote that they quit the entire download a client thing and go web based. Smart choice, but they also wrote that they would go back to a more closed beta, and reactivate the accounts slowly. So after all the trouble I went through, after the embarrassing video, I even lost access to my account until they show mercy and give it back to me.

Someone let me know when Voddler gets their shit together and turns into something worth looking at.

Remember all the stuff we used to wear in the eighties? So embarrassing to see some of the things that were hip back then. Here’s some examples!

Now would you imagine wearing something like that today?

Webcrawl Wednesday for third of march:

Furthermore:

• Balloon Bass and Box Jam
• Google meets Finn
• The recently deflowered girl

This needs to be watched fullscreen.

Stay tuned for next episode, next week!

Silent saturday is a new concept: This is where I recommend books to read. None of the weekdays had something better to offer that had to do with reading, that I could think of, but I am open for suggestions. You can continue reading on sunday if you like.

What a better choice to begin with then the origin of species:

Or if you don’t mind reading from your screen, you can in fact read the entire thing here, thanks to Google Books and the Harvard College Library:

Once again, profiting from the gullible shows itself to be the perfect business model.

The California Astrology Association, established in 1970, has a webstore that sells all sorts of nonsense, like amulets and other jewelry, but also more fun things like Voodoo dolls. Especially disturbing is the money wanga but at least Voodoo is a religion that embraces their inevitable materialistic desires, rather then the usual shame, denial, threats, jealousy and whatnot that some other religions seem to apply to compensate for their uncertainty.

The revolting part from this webstore though, is that you can pay them to cast spells on your behalf, which is essentially paying for nothing. I mean, it’s not like anyone really believes that they will actually cast a spell, do they? Don’t tell me, cause for once, i would like to be in denial.

The testimonials are especially horrific, here are some from this particular spell:

He will begin his new job on the 15th! Well, you’ve convinced a nonbeliever! Thanks again!

How could they be a nonbeliever and still waste money on a spell?

I ordered OBEAH spell in June, I have been told that my spell will cast on July 1st. But guess what happened? What I have asked has already become true!!! It is unbelievable, and totally magic!

This basically says “I gave you my money, you did nothing yet and it worked!” Why does that sound logical at all to this person? And why do the VoodooFolks consider this a good testimony? These people are making so little sense…

Madhya Pradesh: Inmates can reduce their jail sentence by 15 days for every three months of yoga spent, as well as studying for degrees, or attending literacy courses. I think this is a remarkably productive thing to do in prisons.

You might be aware that I too am a big fan of Yoga, it really helps me relax and stay fit.

The picture I included is obviously not that of an inmate, but this is my blog, right here it’s a case of, what would you rather look at.

Original article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8472762.stm