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we’ll now it’s official: the swiss are xenophobic !

here is piece’s rant according the national elections of this weekend. i bow my head in shame.

it’s a full 360° panorama on the hohturli. when you open it, you look into the direction of the bluemlisalp-lodge. on the left you can view down to spiez, on the right is the descent to the oeschinensee and to kandersteg.

if you click on the thumbnail on the right, you can download the 1.2mb .mov-file and see what i’ve seen. bear with me if the panorama far from perfect. i made it without a tripod and with my snapshot-cam:

i do own a pong for my telly (a really lucky finding at the local second hand store for 15 bucks) but this fully-analog pong from two german students is way more cool. it’s built with pulleys, strings and pieces of glass. go and visit their site and watch the video (in 10mb and 6mb -flavour) with amazement!

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yesterday i’ve been on a big hike with nina and her sister. we walked over the so-called hohturli from the griesalp to kandersteg (here’s the explanation from another guy ).

on the descent to kandersteg we witnessed the sun going down over the hills on the other side of the valley. since the air was a little hazy i was able to catch the sun rays quite nice.

ps: i’ve made a nice panorama on 2778m above sea level, i’ll post that soon, but it needs some more tweaking and i need a bed now. ps2: here are some other pictures on flickr . (i start to like that!)

today i met pieceoplastic while i was having a break and he was going for groceries. as an avid moblogger that meeting just had to end up on his moblg.net . we’ve “known” each other for quite a long time online, have been reading each others blog, live about 700m apart, but have never met IRL . weird. now the weirdness is over and we’ve met and can both put another puzzle part to the person we think to know. nice.

this is my mom and my sister.

as you can see i’ve been fiddling around with flickr.

it is quite cool.

more on that later, now i must go to bed!

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

i think i need a watch to fit with my belt buckle!

since i’ve been doing a lot o database maintenance lately (you won’t believe how many errors can be produced when 84 persons register themself …) i was looking for an easy way to do it. The whole registration process for the suicmc04 runs on a MySQL database on the gna-server (thanks b. and chris for hosting us!). Äbu, who did all the backend programming for us installed phpMyAdmin on the server, which is quite a good way to tinker with the database, but i didn’t like it that much. so i was looking for another way to get to the data. dbSuite Admin Tool is a well renowned Software to connect to your database which i used up to now. But yesterday evening i found the best tool up to now!

in the past times when i used to play tetris on my gameboy i once had a dream where i was nearly squashed by those falling blocks. i managed to finish the game multiple times in the hardest setting (which was rewarded with a starting space-shuttle ). this bloke does an absolute fabulous job at playing tetris ! (12.7mb .mpeg-file)

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oh, and there’s also a nice tetris-clone for os x: quinn . the funny thing is, that quinn has a network feature, you can play a game over the net. if anyone wants to give it a go with a network-match just send me a quick note, i’ll be happy to try out a match :-)