picture of the week 14
finally i got some time to sort through the pile of pictures i took on vacation in london. it’ amazing how many pictures you take, when you don’t have to care about any restrictions. the one below was taken in the tate modern, a very impressive old power-station converted by Herzog & de Meuron, two swiss architects. the main hall (see a panorama here) serves as the “main floor” for exhibitions and was only filled with some loudspeakers (by bruce naumann) (that exhibition was about as good as the link is…). nonetheless i was able to get quite a good shot of the eerie afternoon glow outside.
a bunch of new feeds
i just returned from the matt blogg+birthday meet which was really nice and interesting. it was really nice connecting the faces to the bits and bites, talking about tagging vs. keywords, map orientations and stuff like that. i actually suspected to stay around an hour or so, but in the end i turned out to be home around ten at night. guys and gals, it was really interesting to meet all of you, and i’m surely gonna add some more feeds to my news-reader.
k700i and isync (or k700i & isync :-)
yesterday i went to prolong my contract with my mobile phone provider, so i was able to cheaply get a new mobile phone. after looking at the different mobiles compatible with isync i decided (mostly for monetary reasons) to get the Sony Ericsson K700i. after trying to sync it with my computer i nearly gave up, because isync always crashed on me in the middle of the syncing process. after countless tries, deleting preference files, rewriting some preinstalled bundles and stuff like that isync notified me of a “duplication warning” with one contact i have in my address-book: the godfather of my sister is in my address book as: Renner Prename & Prename Wife.
rfid implant
you might have seen that flickr photoset which was linked from boingboing last week. a guy implanted a rfid chip in his hand to do different stuff with it, like opening a door lock, or starting his car. sounds crazy? it is, but it’s that kind of stuff i like. just imagine how cool it would be to touch the handlebar of your bike and it’s unlocked in that very same moment. no fiddling with keys and anything.
picture of the week 13
summer started, it’s true.
movie of the week 12
i spent the weekend in london with nina (just like other people did…) and didn’t have time to sort through all the pictures i took. can you remember the times when you took something like ten pictures on a whole weekend? ah, the good old analog times. but nonetheless i got a kick out of that little movie i quickly hacked together in imovie. it’s the tower bridge (not the london bridge!) opening for a ship to go through, with a little squeaky door effect i added. and if you recognize the song from which i took the opening riff, i’ll pay you a beer, the next time we meet! (tip: the song title contains london…)
b. in the news
the migros magazin - the magazine of a big grocery store here in switzerland - just had an article about search.ch including pictures of b. and rudi r�ber. you can read the article here or grab a pdf (316 kb) here. b.: you need new shoes!
mixed tape 06
mercedes released the sixth mixed tape for you to download. if you’d like to get 92.2 mb of fresh music, then you must click yourself through the flash-interface at mercedes.com/mixedtape. over at the powebook blog there’s a complete track-list if you want to take a look before you download (or just want do grab a selection).
new badge [update]
i’ve added a new badge to the collection on the lower left: if you click on the badge, your browser is taken to the geourl-page, where you can see all my neighbors in meatspace (i just love that expression!). hello b., hello urs, hello guido not hello fsp! update: i stumbled over the link on the bottom of arnis blog (which seems to be dead), that’s how i noticed that geourl relaunched, it’s more a coincidence than investigative bloggin…
picture of the week 11
i again spent a weekend on the slopes. this time i spent it with some folk from work. the image below is a crop from an image from the bunch i shot this weekend, hence it’s quite grainy (keep in mind, it’s shot with a puny dsc-u20), but still i like it, mostly because the cable cuts nicely through the image. and it makes a nice desktop background. if you’d like to see the rest of the images, then head over to the /pics section.