picture of the week
as cranes seem to be popular at the moment, my picture of the week also features a crane. as you might know, i was in winterthur last weekend, on the sulzerareal. the picture below shows a crane on the area, the right one has a carrying capacity of 25 tons, impressive, isn’t it?
kraftwerk
in case anyone of you didn’t go to the kraftwerk-concert 1 last wednesday or thursday in the reithalle or didn’t see the pictures of it in the blog-o-hood, then here are the ones i made: as i told reto the day after, it was not really a concert, more a performance, because the visuals actually blasted me away, the music was pretty the same as on their records. as piece notes, a video of the show would be amazing (he links to two smallish videos in his post) ↩︎
handy dandy!
after submitting a comment spam to the MT-Blacklist, i stopped by at jayallens blog, and found an interesting link. bopuc proposes a way to view all the comments on your blog as a rss feed, spruced up with all the relevant links to despam and edit the comment and info of the commenter. here are the directions: go to your MT-HQ and make a new template. call it something you remember and insert a filename for it (e.g. something.xml) paste the code below into the text field.
funny link of today
this slideshow here is especially for my sister. you know why :-) anyone other than my sister might not think it’s funny. sorry. [via boingboing]
SubEthaEdit 2.0
SubEthaEdit made the jump to version 2.0. As fsck-log notes, even if you don’t need it, it has to be on every mac, one of the most amazing pieces of software, and extremely fast and helpful for writing down stuff (even simultaneously together and alike). oh, and after looking at the screenshots, i’ll even use SubEthaEdit to code that occasional latex-file i write… [via mactechnews.de]
my new precious
it’s here. it’s amazing. it’s mine. nuff said!
picture of the week
yesterday, urs, simu and me went to winterthur, because the guys from staffel x made an alleycat. this is what it looks like if you cram three guys with their bikes and baggage in a twingo: oh, and by the way, i’ve won that alleycat. pity for me that i didn’t go to the last alleycat in basel, because there i could have won a bikeframe, this time the winner got a cap (not even from the staffel x, but from veloexpress) and a beer (and i don’t like beer, so i could change that to a bottle of coke) :-(
folding your t-shirt [update]
this is amazing! i had to watch that movie (1.4mb .wmv) at least five times to get it. but from now on i’ll fold all my t-shirts that way, my mom will be jealous, if i show that to her. i’m gonna be the faster t-shirt-folder than her :-) [via boingboing] update: for those of you, who rely on more standard-respecting video files, urs points out to a mpeg-file of the same video
grand prix
last weekend i ran the grand prix of bern. i’m not really a big runner, nonetheless i managed to run the ten most beautiful miles on earth in a time of 1h, 9min and 27 seconds. not too bad for that my training consisted of going for a run three times prior to the race :-) if you want to see how i’ve been doing after those 16.023 km, then you can click here and see my finish (courtesy of finisherclip.de). i’m the guy in the pale blue shirt on the left finishing just seconds after the guy in the yellow tank-top and black shirt finishes. (and i love the woman shouting: “super schampu” afterwards :-)
suicmc04.ch
during the first weekend of next october the Suisse Cycle Messenger Championships 04 will take place here in bern. if you want to take a sneak-peak at the website of the SUICMC04, then you might want to click here. everything is up and running, just “hidden” from the general public until all quirks are sorted out. yesterday, michel and abu spent the whole day designing and putting the page online, and i spent a part of the morning with abu to design and implement the registration-database. everything is live now, so if you want to register yourself on a messenger-event, then you can do it now, i’ll flush the MYSQL-db before the site goes online for real.