Apple iPhone; Vodafone as exclusive carrier

Since the announcement of the Apple iPhone in January 2007 I’ve been awaiting the release; so I can go and buy one! As if the wait wasn’t already long enough, I’ve just read that the release date of June 11th is in America only. That means that I now have to wait till the end of this year before the phone gets anywhere near Europe, never mind the UK!

To add insult to injury, the exclusive carrier of the Apple iPhone is Vodafone. I’ve never used Vodafone but I don’t like it, I don’t know why; thy just look lame! Sorry guys! I think the only positive thing about being on Vodafone is that the parents are on it so I can call them free or cheaper or something… not that I call them much.

Finally. Just release the fucking iPhone in Europe!!

My name a Kandel

Over easter I spent rather a lot of time up the woods with “the gang” doing various things. As you can see in this video, we weren’t exactly sober. The video shows Mr Kandel hosting an episode of “Kazakhstani TV News” in the middle of the local woodlands, go Joe!

Rick’s Fish!

We’re only here for a short blog this time. I just wanted to inform you of Rick’s highly successful fishing trip he attended at some point, check out the catch in the photo below!

Martial Arts Movies

Lately I’ve been getting rather interested in martial arts, again. For some reason I’ll get right into the topic of martial arts and then I’ll just lose all interest; it’s unbelievable how many martial arts classes I’ve started/stopped and it doesn’t help that there aren’t any classes besides boxing that are within running distance of my house!

Anyway, this time round I’ve just stuck to watching the movies and I’m pretty happy watching any of Jet Li’s movies. I have to say that my favorite is definitely Fearless and then probably Unleashed.

Besides these two I have also watched Hero (another of Jet Li’s movies) and several of Tony Jaa’s movies. The difference between the two fighting styles is massive and I have to say that I like them both; the grace and speed of Jet Li’s Wushu in Fearless contrasts against the powerful and aggressive Muay Thai Boxing from Tony Jaa!

300, Grease and Harry Potter 4.

How many movies can I guy watch in one day? Well I managed three and had had enough. It was Saturday night/Sunday morning when I began this movie marathon. We were all “dossing out” at a friends as his parents had gone away over easter and we decided we’d all sit and watch 300 once our BBQ’s had burnt out and we couldn’t take anymore half cooked meat.

So 300 it was. Although I wouldn’t say this movie was bad I would say I was disappointed by it. The past week or so I’ve been wanting to watch this movie and couldn’t get hold of a DVD off anyone until Saturday. The movies story is too plain and simple for my liking, I can probably explain it in one short sentence.

“300 Spartans go to war against something like 100,000 Persians and don’t even win.”

Besides the somewhat simple story and the pretty unbelievable creatures that attack these 300 Spartans, the movie is rather good. It’s almost action scene for the entire movie, besides the small sections required to explain parts of the story.

Next up was Grease. By this time we were all rather drunk and some muppet decided to put Grease – yes it’s a musical – on the TV. I hate Grease, regardless of what people say I just hate Grease and I don’t really know why. I turned this off about half way through and then we all just got drunk.

Come 1 o’clock in the morning there was only two of us left. Some people had gone home, some had gone upstairs for various reasons (;)) so we watched Harry Potter 4. That took us through to 5am-ish. A few shots of whiskey later and I was asleep!

What are we watching next week people?

Regroup Secure Venture Capital

Although I am not strictly a member of Regroup Esports A/S, you could say that these guys are my employer. As you may or may not know, I write a lot of content for websites about gaming, electronic sports and/or technological stuff such as computer hardware. At the moment I am head of Counter-Strike content for the MeetYourMakers international website.

The website serves as a community page, bringing over 150,000 people together to share their experiences regarding games such as Counter-Strike, Warcraft III, Starcraft and Defense of the Ancients. Furthermore, it serves as a team page for the MeetYourMakers professional gamers that compete in competitions in just about every corner of the world (does the world really have corners?).

So what does MYM have to do with any of this? MYM is the biggest brand owned by Regroup Esports A/S and as of today, is aiming to become the biggest electronic sports entertainment company in the world, within the next 12 months; sounds difficult. However, the guys within Regroup Esports have announced that they have secured around 1 million dollars from the venture fund, SEED Capital.

Because of the continuously growing traffic on our websites and the large number of members in our databases, I can almost promise that we’ll reach our goal – to be the world’s biggest e-sports organisation – in 2007. We are already among the 20 most visited sites in Denmark. And the development continues with explosive haste. Especially in Asia, where we have just opened up an office in Beijing, China. We are quite popular in the “Middle Kingdom”. For instance the Chinese government has chosen Regroup Esports as partner in the world’s biggest e-gaming tournament, which is to be launched in 2007 with the participation of 90 million students from Chinese institutions of higher education, says Jakob Dreyer, vice-president in Regroup Esports´ board of directors

With all this money it should be interesting to see what effects are felt by myself and the other members of staff. Perhaps I will get a pay rise and the opportunity to move out to the company headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Apple Mac Pro with 8 Cores!

Today the guys and girls over at Apple announced that their latest Mac Pro has the capability to go upto 8 cores at 3ghz! Although this won’t make sense to many people, it got me rather excited and I’ve now began saving the neccesary $4,146 needed to buy myself a Apple Mac Pro with Dual Intel Xeon 3ghz (Quad Core) processors.

This is my first blog and I’m pretty lost for what to writer in it and will now just go and on to make it a big longer. I mean, what is a blog? What are supposed to write in a blog… I don’t think anyone can actually explain it – at least I can’t!