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Monday, Oct 13, 2003
the good news: my bike is back! after that it has spent a day somewhere, Mr. Wuthrich called at work this morning and told michel, that he found my bike in front of his shop. so it seems, that somebody managed to open the lock on my bike, drive from my place to mr. wuthrichs coke machine and left it there. what a twerp, stealing a bike for less than 5 minutes . but hey, i cannot complain, it’s back and in mint condition, nothing happened to my baby :-)
Saturday, Oct 11, 2003
if you share an interest in tattos (if you’re a bit curious, then you might have found out, that I AM tattoed and got some piercings, too :-) then the skin-project looks really interesting , not only from the tatoo-point of view, but from a really artistic idea. i’ve been thinking about getting a second tattoo since a long time (i’ve drawn a design pretty soon after i got my first one , in Sydney , one day before my 21st birthday, a bit more than 6 years ago.) and this might drown the desire to get that sund on the back for a moment….
Saturday, Oct 11, 2003
Show: Der Schwachste fliegt
Frage: Welcher romische Kriegsgott tragt den gleichen Namen wie ein bekannter Schokoriegel?
Antwort Kandidat: Snickers.
if you wanna read more of this, then check out Markus Gansels-Quizshow-page .
Saturday, Oct 11, 2003
i just returned from a very cool alleycat
in lausanne. normally an alleycat is about 30km “go as fast as you can”.
Blaize from velocite
made that one different: there were 6 pickup places around the place de l’europe in lausanne (which were in a diameter of maybe 400m). at the start you got a list that was maybe 1-4-5-2, so you had not only to drive fast, but also think hard on how to go and pick up the “parcels” (which consisted of rubber stamps
), then when you finished that list, you got another one, then another one, and so on until you finished seven lists.
and guess who finished first of all twelve messengers that were there and got that nice t-shirt that Blaize made himself?
me.
Friday, Oct 10, 2003
I just read that on apple.slashdot
(I should prepare my physics-lessons for next week, but the pressure is not high enough at the moment): Dasher
is availiable in beta for OSX
.
Dasher looks like a really promising way to enter text on a device with limited abilities. This can intentionally be understood in both ways. Either the device has limited abilities (think about palm-sized devices or wearable computers) or the person entering text has limited abilities (think about a paralized person
).
I just downloaded
the Beta-version of Dasher for OS X (which is also availiable for Windows, GNU/Linux and Pocket PC) and played around with it a bit (see below)
.
Dasher sports some pretty nifty interface. The user point to the letters he want’s to write an Dasher has some preemtive text input possibilites, so you are quite fast in writing (and also really fast in learning how to use it). The developers want to start to embed the possibility to add text to any application which should make dasher some decent fun to use!
Friday, Oct 10, 2003
if you want to create a real-looking gossip magazine-title-page sporting your friends, then quickbrews dirt-generator
has the tools for you :-)