I Can't Eat This

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Yes, I admit that I am a Star Wars addict. Since I got the “new” blu-ray edition, I own every episode in two versions at least.I know it could be worse, some people have four or five or six or seven different versions of each Star Wars movie to waste their homes with.

While watching “The People vs. George Lucas“ I noticed an interview partner who is involved in originaltrilogy.com.
Original Trilogy? Sounds interesting, as I still think the un-restored, original trilogy has more trash-appeal (what I like!). So hushed on their site and surfed around a little bit and came across FANEDIT.ORG. And that’s the place where it all happens!

Disappointed and/or highly inspired movie fans re-edit, cut, insert deleted scenes, insert or delete soundeffects, etc. etc.
And make it downloadable for free (if you own the original version)

One of the first fanedits (if not the first one) was “The Phantom Edit” by, guess who, The Phantom Editor. Who made his first edit of Episode I with the VHS-Version, and did a retake of it when the DVD came out.

I must point out that this is more Star Wars than the original edit. In this version Episode I is no comedy anymore. One reason is that most of the clumsiness of Jar Jar was cut!

Give it try! Enjoy the prequel trilogy as you never did before!
There are many other edits of it and more movies, e.g. Matrix oder Kill Bill.

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU

I stumbled across this little image while I took a look at the website of one of my webstat services.
Can you say that your blog, your website, your shop is really 100% Microsoft free? Or do you still use faulty software or an OS full of security gaps made by a monopolist? Made by a greedy company, that just cares for its customers until the product is sold?

Get me right, please. I am not against making money by developing software or giving support to users. As long as you do the best that you can, developing and working on your product or your service, everything is fine.
But in case with e.g. Microsoft we have the following constellation: Products released as fast as possible to make as many bucks as possible. Only working stable after the third update.

For this crap I should have to pay for? No, not me!

I can use opensource software instead. If there are some bugs or something doesn’t work right, no problem, I did not spend anything on it. I can be patient and wait or better tell the developer that something is wrong with his product and with just that little note to him, take part in making it better. You got that?

I use Ubuntu Linux for three years now. And I can tell you, it has all the features you need for the daily work with your computer. Nearly every kind of software for Linux is available for free.

Switching from microsucks to ubuntu was not easy for me, but I made it. You can do it, too.

Maybe you want to give it a try