apple rebate coupon code [update]
i finally ordered an ipod from apple (jan, don’t flame me, please :-). now apple sent me a rebate coupon code which i can redeem for my next purchase at the apple store. it’s 45 bucks off a purchase of 449 or more CHF. since i don’t plan to use it (it expires at the 15. september) i put it up for grabs here. are you interested? then leave a comment and i’ll gladly pass it over to you.
hardcoded blogroll
i was annoyed that my sidebar loaded extremely slow. now i finally found some time to fix this. i hardcoded the blogroll[1] into the template, so there are no external files loaded anymore. i used blogrolling.com for that service, so it was a bit of a chore to get that data off their site. i exported my blogroll into an opml-file. then i opened that file in my favorite text-editor, subethaedit and “search & replace"d until i could just paste the resulting code into my template. so now you have a much spiffier sidebar on my blog (if you visit it and don’t just pull the posts via rss…)
kinder eggs are a scam!
past saturday i went to the migros to buy some stuff for my weekend. and just because we had acute chocolate craving, nina and me bought two kinder eggs at the checkout. when i opened mine back home, i was quite stunned that there was a little car in it (which is not really stunning per se). the car was a smart forfour which consisted of four parts, so it was not even a challenge to put the thing together. since when do they put advertisement into chocolate?
productivity tips for avid blog readers
i forgot where i found the Productivity Tips For Avid Blog Readers, cause it got stuck in my NetNewsWire-Tabs somehow, but nonetheless it’s a good read (and made me check my list of blogs and unsubscribe one or two of ’em.) Technorati Tags: gtd
new pictures are online
i’ve spent a wonderful afternoon at the villa mettlen celebrating brunis birthday, the whole set of pictures is now online here.
leaf
leaf this morning after swimming.
dustbowl
dustbowl andi is trying new ways of listening to his ipod and it really works!
mixed tape 08 and a new filewile tracks are online
mercedes again gives you 15 nice tracks to download. go to mixed-tape.com and download the 102 mb .zip-file including the artwork (annoying flash navigation, so no direct link). and also go to filewile.com and grab dejots and dustbowls new track shlenco (5.3 mb .mp3), very groovy! Technorati Tags: filewile, mercedes, mixed-tape, music
blogger bräteln
my pictures from yesterday are online now, you can see (and comment them) on flickr. and now i’m off to munich for a job interview at the epo, so wish me luck.
grand challenge 05
hopefully this year’s grand challenge will be more of a success than the last one. at least there’s hope, because a contestant is driven by max os x (albeit there could be a kernel panic on track :-) if you forgot how the last year’s edition ended, then this boingboing-post links to a video excerpt (31mb .wmv) of the satellite-feed from the 04-edition, so you can see for yourself how craptacularly bad most of the autonomous vehicles drove.