[via colleague at work]

Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business. When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed a wife with which to share his fortune.

One evening at an investment meeting he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her natural beauty took his breath away. "I may look like just an ordinary man," he said to her, but in just a few years, my father will die, and I'll inherit $200 million."

Impressed, the woman obtained his business card and three days later, she became his stepmother.

Women are so much better at financial planning than men.

Matthäus Passion - Johann Sebastian Bach

As far as I am concerned, I listen to the Matthäus whenever I feel like listening to it. Of course, technically, as this masterpiece is about Easter and the forty days preceding it, you should only listen to it between Ash Wednesday and Easer Sunday.

Growing up the child of a Bach afficionado however, I have come to see the Matthäus as a classical work of art fit for any day. But, during the period of Lent, I tend to listen to it more often.

• Matthäus Passion {en wikipedia}
• Matthäus Passion {nl wikipedia}
• Matthäus Passion {nl translation}

So I have an odd taste in ringtone music, and usually I cannot find the MP3 versions I really would like to have.

Thanks to a wonderful program called "Audacity" I can cut up any MP3/wav file I have and make it into a smaller MP3.

For my own pleasure, I have made the following ringtones:

• J.S. Bach : Toccata & Fugue In D Minor, BWV 565 - 1. Toccata
• L. von Beethoven : Sympohonie Nr. 5 c-moll op 67 Allegro 1
• Gabriel Rios : Ghostboy - Broad daylight (2 versions)
• Henry Mancini : Victor/Victoria - Le Jazz Hot (intro)

You can download them from this directory.

Whenever my computer crashes again, I can usually find a copy of my 'fairly' recent bookmarks on a different computer, or somewhere burried deep in my email-archives.

Just in case, I'm going to post links to various sites, which I use when designing websites.

For now:

squidfingers > patterns : excellent collection of background patters
3Quarks - Background Pattern : more (soft toned) background patterns
Kaliber10000 {The Designer's Lunchbox} : various goodies - among which, you've guessed it, background patterns