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World Cup 5 Languages and Counting

Through my travels the past month I have watched the World Cup in 5 different languages. It started off with English and Spanish in the United States. ESPN was covering the World Cup pretty well while we were at VloggerCon in Sanf Francisco, and then Atlanta. However the Spanish station Univision something (which has recently doubled it's viewership since the World Cup) had better covereage. You have of course seen us watching the games in the airplanes on the way to California, but it was great to watch it with my uncle Dean who was my soccer coach as a kid, and who has a tournament named after him in Georgia. You can see him and Tamara in the picture here in full supporter getup.

Then back in Holland I watched the continued matches while I prepared for my trip in Berlin. Watchng the first rounds of many teams, and Holland winning thier second match to secure entry into the next round. Then off to Berlin.

In Berlin of course everything was in German. I still can't get used to the conference way of watching a game which the Germans love. It basically swithces in between the different games playing at any one time, which means that you never get to watch a Goal happen Live! Bummer. I was so disappointed when Holland lost as I feel it really is home for me now. But life must go on, even though I was in Full Orange getup for the games.

Then I arrived for my backpacking trip through Thailand yesterday. I thought World Cup coverage would be sparse at best. I was wrong. We got updates from the pilot of the game, and once we got our hotel sorted out, I went to a bar 1 block away and watched the highlights of the English loosing to the team that shall not be named (see above holland vs. X), and the French winning over Brazil games. It was all in Thai, so I didn't understand a word of it. But I saw all the amazing moments of the Matches and understood enough. I'm currently posting this in an internet cafe in Bangkok. The price price per minute is 25 euro cents. Gives you an idea of what the football clothing is that they sell here. I saw some German, and France game shirts (the official ones) for about 100 baht. That's about 2.5 euro! Sweet!

So there you have it folks. One Cup, 2 Gabes, 3 cameras, 4 countries, 5 languages and counting. WeallSpeakFootball!

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Weallspeakfootball Last Day in Berlin

My last day in Berlin and I went on a little travel with my Mini Cooper and Tom Tom to guide me. After going around and seeing the sites like Check Point Charlie, The Prusian Palace, and other amazing sites, I met up with Frans and Alex to enjoy a nice brewski on the side of the water to philosphise about the tao of blogging.

It was a real emotional and thought provoking trip going around old East Germany in the Mini. Here you can see a picture of the Mini with the Amercian flag crossing the wall's monument line, just a block from Check Point Charlie. It seems there is nothing left of the old East German way as everything has been taken over by Subway, Starbucks, Hilton, etc. Good or bad I'll let you decide.

It was such a great experience to be in the Coke Flat for 2 weeks and meeting all the awesome people that came by and be a part of the whole football madness. Getting tickets to the games was a real treat, and one I hadn't expected. I could literally smell the grass from the pitch
I was so close in this picture after one of the games. I know most people are gonna role thier eyes now, but I really want to thank KnallGrau and Coca Cola for the oppurtunity to be a part of weallspeakfootball. It's something I will not soon forget and enjoyed thouroughly. To those who still get to go, make the most of it I say, and steal a couple bottles of Coke Blak for yourselves. :-)

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iFranz in Berlin!!!


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I'm in Berlin now for the weallspeakfootball.com project. I'll be here for the next 2 weeks. As if I didn't have enough vloggers and bloggers around me this month with Podcastday2006 and vloggercon2006. But I just can't gget enough. I'll be posting some more videos up here, and on weallspeakfootball.com. This picture was made by Renate, the wife of good freind of mine Alexx from iFranz.tv. There are now in New York and I wish them the best time there!!! Awesome trip guys, enjoy! Standing next to me and Alex is Burkhard from einfallsriech.tv ( I hope I spelled it right, I can't speak it for shit.) I nay case keep watching this space and the others to see some World Cup fun!!!

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Cockroach Controlled Robot

This is filed under, "What the fuck was the homework assignment?". This guy made a robot which moves around. I know what you are saying, the Japanese are doing this, so what? Well, this robot is being controlled by a COCKROACH! Things are springing to my mind. I think the most prominent is:

A cockroach is killed by raid. Other cockroaches get together and say, "We can rebuild him. We have the technology!"

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A quick overview of netneutrality

This is a world wide issue, that vould cause the next dot com crash. What is the issue? If you haven't heard about Net Neutrality yet, imagine a world in which telecom providers in the US restrict access to various web services such as google, or flickr, or even iTunes. Slowwing down access to these sites or even rerouting to another site which has paid them more money to service. This is being down also under the umbrella of "security". Or more like Sensorship. What an aweful world that would be, with no easy access to my family photos, indenpendent record labels, independent press and citizin journalists, or even my friend's blog. Well it's happening in theUS right now and will affect all of us worldwide. This needs to be stopped.

YOU READING OR WATCHING THIS! If you love the internet and the freedom of information that you can access on it goto:

www.savetheinternet.com

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Pre Podcast day


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Here's a pic from Pre Podcastday 2006 (i.e. getting drinks the night before). You wouldn't know it but those are big name podcasters sitting around me. I guess that's the perks of podcasting vs. vlogging, you don't show you face as much and are more anonymous. :-) Thanks for the shot chouchpotatoes!!!

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