Even though I was never a 'fan' of Michael Jackson, I still want to say he was one of the greatest artists of all time. Maybe the fact that I grew up with his music has everything to do with that ... Maybe he was just that good. I think the latter.

I mean, 13 number 1 hits just don't lie :) Musical artists of this era seem to have a much shorter popularity, usually we don't hear much from someone after 1 or 2 hits. I guess the only one we have right now to compare this to is someone like Britney Spears who seems to be able to score hits and stay popular as well, although she is also hated by a lot of people. I don't particularly like her music, but the girl knows how to make a hit song - that's undeniable.

When I first heard the news about Michael J passing I was a little surprised but not emotional. Today I watched some video clips of MJ and realised what a unique artist he was. Michael, Rest In Peace 2009 .. You shall forever be remembered for the great artists you were !

Official Michael Jackson channel on YouTube

Michael Jackson entry on WikiPedia

God, I love this game. I have been playing tons of poker in April and a bit in May and things have been going great. I had 2 weeks off work in April so I thought it was a good time to continue my quest to attack the $3 sngs at Full Tilt Poker. I continued my hot run and ran my bankroll up to $600, which was when I had promised myself to try out the $6 level. I decided to hold off a little longer because things were going to well, I played another day of tourneys and ended up with $700. I decided to set $100 apart in my mind for trying out the $6 level. Things didn't go so well there, I played 10 of them and played almost even. Played another 5 and decided it was not the time for $6 yet.

As I was pondering the challenge of the new level, the possibility came to mind that I might go on full blown tilt and blow the whole bankroll away with $6 and $12 games if things went a bit awry. Better spend what I have now, so they can't take that away from me anymore ! I surfed the net for HDTV prices and saw a few models within my price range, but actually saw a few nicer models which were outside of my CURRENT budget... Hmm ... time for some more online poker :)

I got up early that day and figured I could play for 8 hours and still make it to the stores ... I won another $200 and withdrew the money to my Neteller, where converted to euros it was added to some money still in there making it a total of €800. Of course, ordering online was not an option, I wanted a new TV and I wanted it NOW !! I rushed to the city center and found a beautiful 40 inch Samsung full HD exactly within my budget.

We're really enjoying the new TV and with only $50 left in my poker account I have started playing again, and ran the bankroll up to $125 now.I'm not playing as much anymore though since my vacation is over and we watch a lot of movies now :)