nice to meet you
today i met pieceoplastic while i was having a break and he was going for groceries. as an avid moblogger that meeting just had to end up on his moblg.net. we’ve “known” each other for quite a long time online, have been reading each others blog, live about 700m apart, but have never met IRL. weird. now the weirdness is over and we’ve met and can both put another puzzle part to the person we think to know. nice.
my mom and my sister
this is my mom and my sister. as you can see i’ve been fiddling around with flickr. it is quite cool. more on that later, now i must go to bed!
Flickr
This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.
pimp-watch
i think i need a watch to fit with my belt buckle!
CocoaMySQL
since i’ve been doing a lot o database maintenance lately (you won’t believe how many errors can be produced when 84 persons register themself…) i was looking for an easy way to do it. The whole registration process for the suicmc04 runs on a MySQL database on the gna-server (thanks b. and chris for hosting us!). Äbu, who did all the backend programming for us installed phpMyAdmin on the server, which is quite a good way to tinker with the database, but i didn’t like it that much. so i was looking for another way to get to the data. dbSuite Admin Tool is a well renowned Software to connect to your database which i used up to now. But yesterday evening i found the best tool up to now!
picture of the week 38
i spent the past weekend in italy with my family. we went to the region called barbaresco in the piemont in the northern part of italy. the region is well renowned for it’s viniculture so we spent quite some time at trying different wines (exept me, i don’t drink) and walking through different cities and villages in the region. it was really relaxing and really nice to spend a weekend with the extended family (nina, my girlfriend and bjorn, my sisters boyfriend came with us).
tetris
in the past times when i used to play tetris on my gameboy i once had a dream where i was nearly squashed by those falling blocks. i managed to finish the game multiple times in the hardest setting (which was rewarded with a starting space-shuttle). this bloke does an absolute fabulous job at playing tetris! (12.7mb .mpeg-file) [via powerbook_blog] oh, and there’s also a nice tetris-clone for os x: quinn. the funny thing is, that quinn has a network feature, you can play a game over the net. if anyone wants to give it a go with a network-match just send me a quick note, i’ll be happy to try out a match :-)
bluetooth headset
i always wanted a bluetooth headset (only to be nerdy, not that i actually had a use for it). maybe i should make me my own, like this bloke did. [via engadget]
photo-shooting again
today i was again at a photo-shooting. a customer of the velokurier was looking for a model which was willing to show his ass to two old ladies (really!) the idea is that the ewb, the energy and water supplier of bern is providing everyone with energy here in bern (their slogan is “we pass on our energy”). the setup was like this: a messenger fills his water-bottle at one of the fountains in bern. two elderly ladies pass and watch his nice butt. since we all have nice butts they were looking for one of us who had time tonight. since the ad-agency preferred me to urs and renzo (urs has the wrong length of hair and they didn’t see renzos butt or the would have chosen him :-) i will be on that ad which comes out sometimes in november/december this year. it was quite annoying to stand there in full autumn-gear while the sun is shining down pretty strong. and both ladies were only marginally funny while they tried to make jokes about my butt so they would loosen up a bit for the pictures. we’ll see how the poster will turn out.
newsfire 0.2
i can hardly remember the last time i blogged about new software i installed on my trusty ibook. now newsfire 0.2 (!) gets the honor to be featured here. since i discovered the beauty and simpleness of reading most of the web via rss i’ve been using netnewswire lite for all my rss-needs. (btw: xeni jardin (of boingboing-fame) explains the whole rss-thing it nicely in her article for WIRED 12.04). since two of my fafourite mac-blogs (fscklog and powerbook-blogger) seem to like it, i thought i’d give it a go and installed that impressive piece of software. i can hardly believe that the version number is 0.2!