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!
how nice!
look what mail i just got: Dugong photos are very hard to find, and yours is truly wonderful. We all love to make it available to people for a desktop. Here are some desktops donated by other photographers. http://www.earthjustice.org/supporter_center/gallery.html This would help support our work to prevent the US govt from building an airbase on top of a dugong feeding ground in Japan. Here is more about that lawsuit against the US Department of Defense. http://www.earthjustice.org/urgent/display.html?ID=154
grand raid pictures
one of the sponsors of the grand raid christalp is the fotolabo club which had lots a bunch of photographers along the track. so now you’re able to see pictures of all the riders on the online-album-page. here are the ones they took of me and renzo:
my 0.02$ to the upcoming elections in the us of a
if you haven’t seen it jet, heres a very funny flash animation (warning: 3.7mb) from the jibjab-brothers that features dubja bush and purple heart kerry telling you some more about their land. [via someones email]
pictures of the week
this week nina received the pictures we made underwater in egypt. both pictures below show a dugong we saw underwater, which was a truly amazing sight. very, very impressive!
new filewile track
deejot and 777 have released a new track: keppa go and grab it on their page under “tracks&charts;”! and you might put a tip in the jar, although the track is free for you to download.
skype for osx
after i’ve been fooling around with an unofficial beta-version today the official beta version of skype was released for os x. (and could not call anybody, because only bruni had it installed and he has troubles with his microphone…) skype is an internet-telephony software from the same people that brought you kazaa, the p2p filesharing software (and skype works in pretty much the same way, also through some p2p-trickery). so if you want to give me a call and listen to my voice, you can add “david.haberthuer” to your skype and test it out. i tried it out with b. and i must say that it works very much like intended and is absolutely hassle-free.
[update] the fate of a geek
franziska informed me that i got the job, so i’ll be featured in a campaign of postfinance. since this means some unscheduled hight tide in my wallet my technolust came up again and i thought, why not replace my trusty dsc-p9 with a new camera? and just as i surfed the web to compare the prices for the dsc-t1 (it’s not that expensive!) i found out that sony introduced some new cameras today, among other things the dsc-t3 and the dsc-l1. now i think i have to wait and see how expensive they’re gonna be when they show up here in switzerland…