this blog is now cocomment enabled!
after reading a lot of buzz about cocomment (explained a wee bit here :-) i thought it’s about time to jump the bandwagon. and now, after adding a little bit of code to the individual entry archive this blog is now officially pimped -ehrm- cocomment enabled. have no idea what i’m talking about? i only start to get the implication of cocomment, but let me explain it here, as far as i get it: up to now, whenever i commented on a blog/site somewhere, i had to remember to visit the site later on or add the comment feed to my feedreader to not loose that particular conversation string. cocomment should be able to overcome that, because it enables a lot of sites (even flickr!) to “send” the comments back to one central location. i’m now able to track those comments in a central location and follow conversations more, thus participating more (talk about positive feedback loop).
multi-finger GUI
it is rumored that the next iteration of the ipod will feature a nice screen with a 3.5"-touchscreen and a digital scrollwheel. however cool that may be, i was really impressed by that tech-demo from the new york university here: bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user input on a graphical interaction surface. it shows how one would be able to interact with an OS/GUI with multiple fingers and two hands. wicked! you can directly grab the demo reel as a 17 mb .mpg-file or 12mb .mp4-file (both linked in the coral-cache-version to save some bandwidth).
gipfelfoto
Gipfelfoto 2700m über meer, auf der medriger fluh. wunderbar sonnig, kein feinstaub und trotz tiefem winter schon gemutlich warm.
picture of the week 04
the past saturday we wanted to go skiing. when we arrived in adelboden at 20 past 9 in the morning we were informed that the whole ski-region is closed because of the guggifohn (a wind with velocities up to 246 km/h). we then waited for more informations, but around 10:30 it was evident that the chairlifts and cablecars won’t open for the day. we then decided to switch to the engstligenalp, but it turned out that the fohn was blowing there, too.
lhc panorama
do you want to take a look at the biggest microscope ever built? do you wonder how it sounds in the huge assembly hall of the two atlas magnets? then you should take a look at this qtvr-panorama of peter mc cready. and you should also definitely check out the other panoramas he made. you can access them in through the navigational buttons in the lower pane. sigi, barni and herman, do you remember how we stood in those halls some years ago? (and seen some really weird stuff going on, like those photographers for …. :-)
picture of the week 03
i’ve been dog-sitting two big dogs [1] of a friend this weekend. while going for a nice long walk we felt a bit like being in an episode of lost, but also had a rather good time. the image below was taken on this bridge. [1]: esta in front, and diavolo on the back, they’re much easier to care for than they look.
rocket powered bike
sometimes later in the afternoon at work i wish for something like this. a rocket bike with a rather impressive acceleration, from 0 to 96 km/h in five (!!!) seconds. the bike where the rocket is bolted on looks a bit goofy, but i guess you could improve that easily… now i just want to see a video of it in action! [via makezine] technorati tags: bike, make, rockets
video.google.com for psp
google revamped their video service. you can now buy a big selection of videos. but the more important thing (for me, personally…) is, that you can download pretty much every video, readily formatted for your psp/ipod/big box on the floor. now i really need tho fork out those 15 bucks for pspware, so i don’t get that nag-screen when synching my movies over to my new gadget. oh, and google earth is now officially out of beta and available for the mac, too.
a big bunch of tickets
this weekend we’re again gonna go to gensingen, to take part in a masters competition of the ssv ingelheim. today i went to buy our tickets (three people; pesche and another guy from basel and me). as you can see in the image to the left, it was rather a big undertaking. the problem is that we all have different schedules: i’m starting in bern, the two others are starting in basel. then we proceed all together to gensingen. on sunday we travel back home together, but only until karlsruhe. pesche and me are stopping there, to visit an old friend (rouge, you know him too, it’s mike bucko…). the third man is directly going home from there. pesche and me are having diner with mike and then pesche is gonna go home to be ready for his work-week. since i got two days off work, i’m gonna stay a bit longer and enjoy karlsruhe.
calvin is just great!
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