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Alegria 25th Anniversary Ed. & Cirque du Soleil '25' Album

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:30:12 PDT

I just finished updating my primer post about Cirque du Soleil music CD releases, which is part of my Cirque du Soleil Primer article series (which I also updated and enhanced btw.) Cirque released two new CD's, which I would like to talk about. The first release was: Alegria 25th Anniversary Edition Re-Mastered That release was a major disappointment to me. I don't know what the reason for this

World Record by Three Cirque du Soleil Teenage Performers

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:39:18 PDT

This article used to be part of my Cirque du Soleil Primer article, but I decided to remove it from there and make it its own article instead. Note that this World Record was already set in September 2007, much over 1 year ago. Highest Circus Act Ever Performed Did you know that three of Cirque du Soleil's contortionists, Natasha Patterson, 10, born in San Francisco, Julie Bergez, 14, from

Roy/SAC Intro Development

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:39:53 PDT

When I decided to pack my collections of scene art logos and pixel art fonts to make them public for others to download, I got the idea to create a nice little intro that comes with the packages. Following an ancient tradition in the scene, an intro does serve the purpose to announce the release and to relay greetings and messages to fellow sceners. The intro (or Cracktro), which is short for "

Scene Pixel Art Logos Collection Vol.1

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:05:37 PDT

I blogged about scene pixel art logos last December and about the Flickr.com collection where I posted many scene logos and more. I collected a lot more logos since then and I did not update the Flickr.com collection yet. The main reason for that is the inability for me to avoid uploading the same logos again that I already uploaded to Flickr before. Flickr does not provide any option to de-dupe

The First Demo That I Saw in my Life

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:41:27 PDT

This post falls into the category "old personal history of mine". I thought that write once more about how I experienced things, especially because I grew up behind the Iron Curtain in the former communist part of Germany, the DDR or GDR (German Democratic Republic). People always ask me how it was like, so here is a story that describes one aspect of it, a very specific one though. Not

Dynamic Technologies - Dytec - Introduction Continued

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:32:07 PDT

Almost exactly one year ago I did publish a post where I introduced 26 cracktros for the Commodore 64, 7 Cracktros for the PC and 4 Cracktros for the Commodore Amiga by one of my former release groups that is dear to my heard, Dynamic Technologies aka Dytec or simply DTC.I also created a remix video where I used the majority of Dytec logos that I had and many of the crack intro videos to show off

Copyright Complaint Notice Filings in the Scene? WTF?

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:28:56 PDT

It's not that I have already to deal with a lot of crap at the moment that something that just happened a few days ago has to come on top of all of it to "make my day" and "make my head shake in disbelief'". It started with a big fat screen where you can see the snapshot of below, when I logged into one of my YouTube.com accounts. I was forced to acknowledge the message, before I could do

What is Your Favorite Cirque du Soleil Show?

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:07:45 PDT

I get this question again and again, especially at my YouTube channel CirqueDuSoleilGuru, which is focusing on Cirque du Soleil almost exclusively. Simple question, isn't it? Or is it? What is your answer to this question? Do you have favorite show? Have you seen more than one Cirque du Soleil show to be able to pick a favorite? Have you seen a Cirque du Soleil show at all or do you have no idea

Microsoft Internet Explorer Search Providers Import and Export

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:45:26 PDT

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8 and also Mozilla Fire Fox come with a feature called "Custom Search Providers" or Search Scopes. It allows you to add web sites and search engines to your search box to search them directly, if you need to. For example could you add Amazon.com search to your search providers and search the Amazon.com site directly from your search box, if you are looking for a

In Case You Forgot Adobe Photoshop at Home, don’t worry!

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:40:17 PDT

In the case that you forgot Adobe Photoshop at home and need to make some last minute tweaks of some nice and cool graphics for your blog or MySpace page, while at a friends house, who only has MS Paint installed on his Computer, then you don’t have to decide between no image or crappy MS Paint tweaked image anymore. There is now a nice third option available. All that your friend needs is a

Cirque du Soleil - Historic Time-Line 1984 to Present

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:45:24 PDT

This article is part of my Cirque du Soleil Primer Article Series. Aurora "Those who are able to walk on stilts can roam the earth unstopped by mountains or rivers. They are able to imagine flying and therefore to reach the Isles of the Immortals." P'ao-Pou Tseu In the early eighties, a group of young street performers pooled their talent and dreams and founded the "Club des Talons Hauts" or

VNV Nation Box Set – Reformation 01

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:25:16 PDT

I received today the Reformation 01 box set (limited edition) by my favorite band “VNV Nation” that I pre-ordered at Amazon.com, who still sells it for only $21.xx dollars. (This is not my first exclusive post about VNV Nation. You can check out the other ones to learn more about VNV here and here.) The limited edition of the Reformation 01 box set by VNV Nation is a real bargain. For little more

The Cirque du Soleil Story - Odyssea - The dreamer's Odyssey

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:54:53 PDT

Source: Cirque du Soleil This article is part of my Cirque du Soleil Information Primer article series. See the main article here. Odyssea - The dreamer's odyssey The History of Cirque du Soleil in their own words. The Cirque du Soleil story is about a group of young people who wanted nothing more than the freedom to dream a dream. Beginning with a street kid from Montreal called Guy Laliberté,

MS DOS Commands, Wild Cards, Input/Output Redirection and Variables

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Mon, 25 May 2009 11:18:50 PDT

While I was looking for ways to make my life easier by automating things, I rediscovered the MS DOS batch features of the latest MS DOS release and even more extended version of MS DOS for the early Microsoft Windows 32 bit Operating Systems, like Windows 95, Windows CE and Windows 98 (dubbed MS DOS 7). You can accomplish a lot of things right from the DOS prompt without needing to program fancy

About Cirque du Soleil, the Guinness Book of World Records & a lot of Stilts

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:09:34 PDT

Well, the post title is actually very descriptive. This post is about Cirque du Soleil. Adding stilts to the mix should also not be surprising, considering that Cirque du Soleil was founded back in 1984 by a troupe of Stilts Walkers, dubbed the “High Heels Club”. You can now guess What Cirque du Soleil and stilts have to do with the Guinness Book of World Records. Na? C’mon! Okay, I don’t

A Guide to Video & Audio for Microsoft Windows

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Sat, 09 May 2009 06:01:09 PDT

What is this? Online video is booming and more dads become hobby “Spielbergs” every year. Dropping prices and increasing power and capability of video recording, playing and transmitting equipment is also doing his part to aid this trend. Chances are good that it happened to you that you received a media file, audio or video from somewhere or someone that you wanted to play back on your computer

Some Handy BATCH and VB Scripts for Organizing Files

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:59:49 PDT

Here are four scripts and batch files that come in handy sometimes when you organize or clean-up files and folders on your hard disk. You can use the provided scripts as you see fit. They are provided “as is” and are not supported. Also be aware that I will not take any responsibility for any damage or harm that the scripts might cause. You use them at your own risk. You are free to use, copy,

Rupture by Andromeda Software Development and other cool Demos

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:31:21 PDT

I felt that it was about time again to write about demos, recent demos this time and no classics. Another great demo, which was only recently released trigger this post actually. The demo that did this is: Rupture by the Greek demo group Andromeda Software Development (short ASD). The demo won the 1st place at The Gathering (TG) 2009 Demo Party Competition in Hamar, Norway this Spring. I created

The SAC – Superior Art Creations All-Time Member List Project Update

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:03:15 PDT

I am trying for a while now to create an all time Superior Art Creations member list. This is unfortunately no easy task, because the information in the SAC.NFO files of the SAC Pack releases were not always as well maintained as they should have been. I don’t want to point and blame anybody, but its is pretty tough to get a clear picture of who is who and who was in when as what, with the

De-Dupe Files Script Tool for Windows 32bit V2.0beta

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:21:58 PDT

I know, it’s less than a month that I introduced the De-Dupe script Version 1.1. See my original blog post where I introduced the script here. I used the script myself quite a lot and implemented improvements and additional features to it as a consequence of it. I won’t post the whole source code in this post this time though, because it got significantly bigger and would cause problems with

Some Google Tools & Services and Other Annoyances

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:29:05 PDT

You know how it is… the small annoyances are the ones that bother us the most, especially if you have to deal with the same thing all the time on an almost daily basis. I am going to show you a few of those annoyances that drive me nuts at the moment. List of Annoyances Covered by this Post Annoyance #1 – Google YouTube Tag Subscriptions Annoyance #2 – Google YouTube Comments Notification

Jason Scott from Textfiles.com Text-urized

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:02:01 PDT

I wrote a while back already a post about the online Image to Text (ASCII) converter tool at Photo2Text.com. Back then I used Matt Cutts from Google as my Guinea-Pig to illustrate it’s capabilities. This is not the purpose of this blog post though. Shortly after I did my post, I played around with it a bit more. I experimented with a photograph of Jason Scott Sadofsky from Textfiles.com (who

New Cirque du Soleil Show Ovo

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:29:37 PDT

The name for the new Cirque du Soleil touring show that will premiere on April 23, 2009 in Montreal, Canada was unveiled. The name is: “OVO”. The theme of the show are insects. Yes, you read this right, insects. This also explains the name choice, because here is what Cirque du Soleil themselves stated about it: The name OVO means "egg" in Portuguese. This timeless symbol of the life cycle

Cirque du Soleil Touring Shows (Complete List)

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:27:00 PDT

This post is part of my Cirque du Soleil Information Primer Article Series Cirque du Soleil Touring Shows Touring shows are the traditional Circus style like shows that are performed within a big circus tent (called the "Big Top"), which gets wrapped up every few months to be rebuild and made ready in another City somewhere around the world to stay there for a few weeks , perform the show and

Cirque du Soleil Resident Shows (Complete List)

noreply@blogger.com (Carsten a.k.a. Roy/SAC) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:50:23 PDT

This article is part of my Cirque du Soleil Information Primer Articles Series. Resident Shows of Cirque du Soleil Resident shows are in contradiction to the Cirque du Soleil touring show, performed at one specific location/venue throughout it's run. A resident show does not come to visit people around the world, you have to pay it a visit yourself and travel to the location of the resident show,