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.
packing
sometimes - especially when packing for a weekend away or so - i really wish my room had an F9 or F11 button.
googles dock [update]
if you cannot be without the dock magnification effect, then you abolutely must start to use google X from now on. quite nifty! [via google blog] update: the site is gone. it was a nifty dhtml-emulation of the dock magnification effect on google which made it “easy” to switch between the different parts of google (imgages.google.com, video.google.com, groups.google.com, etc.)
18° and rising.
if this ain’t the nicest start into the spring, i don’t know what else could be it… (btw: from left to right: bluephoneelite, meteorologist, os x’ bluetooth status, os x’ eject, os x’ airport (off), menu meters cpu, menu meters network, os x’ clock).
more pictures
yesterday evening there was the 6th antifa walk here in bern. despite all the babble and heated discussion going on in the apron the demonstration went really well. good for the cause, and also good for the plausibility of the demonstrators. if you’d like to take part a bit, then you can take a look at my antifa 05-photoset over at flickr, or read more on indymedia.ch.
picture of the week 10
the past friday was absolutely amazing at work. as you might know (or not…) the swiss messengers have a collective product: swissconnect. hence, if a customer wants to send a parcel to any other town in switzerland, he just gives us a call, and we do the rest. pick it up at his door, drive to the train station, put it on a train, and another partner grabs it from that train and delivers the parcel. anything goes. passports from lausanne, movie rolls from ostermundigen to zurich.
new filewile track on the web
once again deejot and dustbowl released a brand spanking new track on their website. go and grab swim_phul while it’s hot!
i want one of those new powerbooks [update]
the newest revision of apples powerbooks features an accelerometer, that detects if you drop the powerbook and parks the hard disc heads (a thing already found on older ibm-machines). now a guy figured out how to tap into the accelerometer and use it to display all kind of funky stuff (e.g. a window is fixed in space, while the powerbook rotates). this led another guy to program a python script whith which you can control itunes. just give your powerbook a mild slap on the head and it switches to the next song. i see some really funky stuff coming up for those powerbooks….
stöckchenwerfen
folgendes stöckchen wurde mir von rage zugeworfen: 1. wieviel gigantische bytes an musik sind auf meinem computer? 10.06 gb verteilt auf 2387 songs. knapp die hälfte davon findet auf meinem ipod platz. viel elektronik, viel handgemachtes, altes und neues und dazu noch ein grosser schuss schweizer musik.