I must admit: I haven’t seen the 2007 VMA, yet - but I have heard about Britney’s performance and had to watch it online… OMG!
See for yourself :

MTV VMA 2007 (US site):
www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2007/
MTV VMA 2007 (German site):
www.mtv.de/vma07/

There were some other nice performances (e.g. the preshow with Nicole Scherzinger’s upcoming new single).

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Thanks to Nick Momri, I have found a way of showing the date of the last modification/update of each post by putting the code of his WordPress plugin “Last Modified” into the main index template.

“Last Modified” for WordPress:
dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/last-modified/

Note for the author:
Of course, I could have used the “plugin way”, but hey: I have already [...]

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Image borrowed from remhq.com.
As pronounced on their website remhq.com with the news from August 21st, 2007, R.E.M. are going to release their (quoting):
first ever live CD/DVD (…) The dual package, titled R.E.M. LIVE features 22 songs from the group’s memorable performance at the Point Theatre in Dublin on February 27th, 2005. (end of quote)
A trailer [...]

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Well, six years ago, the big tragedy happened…
I listened to the radio today when they were asking the people how the September 11, 2001 attacks affects there lives on this special day today. Most of them said that they are doing their everyday stuff, but pause to think and remember that black day in 2001.
Well, [...]

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I just found some nice plugins for WordPress on lesterchan.net:

WP-EMail easily adds an “email this post/page” button.
WP-Polls: adds an AJAX-style poll support to your blog.
WP-PostRatings allows users to rate your posts.
WP-PostViews lets you know how often a post has been viewed.
WP-Print displays a printable version of your post/page.

There are some other plugins on that site [...]

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As I have blogged in this post, I am currently using the XSD_Snapr plugin for WordPress to show preview bubbles for each external link.
Today, I stumbled across a post with the title “How to Turn Off Snap Preview on WordPress Blogs” on lorelle.wordpress.com where the usefulness of those preview bubbles is heavily discussed.
I have started [...]

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I just came across this nice post:
legoisfun.blogspot.com/2007/08/lego-music-superstars.html
Also see: www.brothers-brick.com.
My favorite ones:
Images are borrowed from legoisfun.blogspot.com a Flickr set by Andrew Becraft
(thanks for the info, Andrew).
Nirvana
R.E.M.
U2

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I don’t know why, but a couple of days ago, I felt the urge to look for those old Infocom games on the internet… wait… what did you say? You do not know Infocom? Shame on you!
Infocom has blessed the early computer gamerz with dozens of hilarious text adventures, like e.g. the famous “Hitchhiker’s Guide [...]

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Currently, there seems to be a worm spreading via Skype for Windows - please read the following articles for further information:

“On the worm that affects Skype for Windows users” on skype.com,

“Skype worm out and about” on heise-security.co.uk.

Special thanks to Torsten (a Mac user!) for providing this information.

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