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What is Your Favorite Cirque du Soleil Show?

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Published on: May 25, 2009

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 what I am talking about? If the latter is the case, go and check out my YouTube channel and also my Cirque du Soleil Primer Article. I for my part cannot give a simple answer to this question. Which show I like the most, really depends?? on the mood I am in.?? To at least narrow down the list of 20+ shows to a manageable number, here are my general favorites:?? “KA“, playing at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, “O” at the Bellagio, also in Las Vegas; and the touring show “Varekai“. I also like “Zumanity” at the New York, New York in Las Vegas a lot, so make it FOUR favorites, all right?! “KA” is the EPIC show “O” is the BEAUTYFUL show “Zumanity” is the “FRIVOL” show “Varekai” is FUNNY and has GREAT acts in it If I would have to make a choice, because somebody puts a gun on my head or something like that, I’d pick “KA“. I have seen each of the shows above multiple times. The three Vegas Shows,[…]

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Microsoft Internet Explorer Search Providers Import and Export

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Published on: May 22, 2009

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 book, CD or DVD and use Amazon.com as primary online shop for this kind of purchases. You can get a selection of custom search providers at this Microsoft web site. There you can find a number of options for popular web sites and other search engines. Also available there is the option to create your own custom search provider for your favorite web site. This is possible, as long as the site provides a site search option and passes the search parameters, such as the search term in the URL. If you have a web site yourself and want to offer your visitors the option to add your site search to their web browser, then you can do that as well. I did this for my small project SQLHunt.com, a MS SQL Server resources meta-search engine based on Google Custom Search Engine. See the link at the bottom of the homepage that reads “Widgets and Gadgets”. One of the options there is to add the SQLHunt.com search to your web browser. The search providers page for Internet Explorer on[…]

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In Case You Forgot Adobe Photoshop at Home, don???t worry!

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Published on: May 19, 2009

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 web browser and an Internet connection??? and who doesn???t have this nowadays. Finding a home with black and white television is probably easier than one with a computer without Internet, right? Anyhow. There have been in the past already multiple attempts to provide a practical photo and image editor on the World Wide Web. Yeah, you could tweak photographs a little bit, remove some red eyes, flip the image, crop it and adjust the colors and contrast or brightness, but that was about it. Pixlr has something for that as well, called Photo Express, where you can do some last minute tweaks to a photo before you put it up on Flickr or Photobucket. But if you had to do a little bit more tweaking to an image, you still required a desktop application installed on your computer. Pixlr provides a neat alternative to that. Their image editor is more than just a nice toy where you can draw squares and lines like in MS Paint. The Pixlr image editor supports Layers and has some[…]

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Cirque du Soleil – Historic Time-Line 1984 to Present

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Published on: May 18, 2009
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 “High-Heels Club”, aptly named because most of them were stilt-walkers. The Club also featured fire eaters, jugglers and other buskers. At that time, Quebec did not have a circus tradition as did several European countries. So the Club members decided to organize a festival, where street performers could come together to exchange ideas and techniques. They called it the “F??te Foraine de Baie St-Paul” (the Baie Saint-Paul Fair). That was all a few visionaries needed to hatch the idea of bringing all this talent together under one roof, or – why not? – a big top! Cirque du Soleil was born. Cirque du Soleil ??? Historic Time-line 1984 – Present The story begins in 1982, in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec. In this haven of creativity whose rural charm attracts artists, art collectors and tourists alike, a group of young street performers mix with the crowd, walking on stilts, juggling and eating fire. Inspired by the spectators’ obvious delight, the performers hatch the idea of organizing an entertainers’ festival-the precursor of what is to become Cirque du Soleil. 1984 Cirque du Soleil is[…]
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VNV Nation Box Set ??? Reformation 01

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Published on: May 14, 2009

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 than the price of a regular album CD you get 2 CD’s and a video DVD with 8 tracks recorded at live concerts in Europe (mostly Hamburg, Germany). Backup Link to Video on VimeoDownload this video in AVI format in High Definition (1280×720, 81 MB) Video Notes and Credits: The video above was edited by me and includes snippets from the DVD?? that is part of the Reformation 01 box set. It also uses various images that are not part of the box set and video snippets from the viral ???Illusion??? video with animations by Andrew Huang, which were unfortunately not included in this box set (it would have been the right place for it though ). All music by VNV Nation. I also like to remark that the box set includes the first ever LIVE ALBUM by VNV Nation, so fans who prefer VNV Nation live over the studio recordings (like I do) do not have to fall back on the not 100% legitimate Live album solution by ripping the audio tracks of the previously released[…]

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