the ipod as a consumer thang...
yesterday i was in rodersdorf, playing ddc with jochen. jochen stayed over at a friend, so i was on my own in the train to basel and in the tram to battwil/flueh. in the train i was listening to some music on my ipod, when a guy in the opposite compartment scrolls away on the wheel of his ipod trying to find a good tune. then when i walk out towards the tramway i see a girl with the revealing white headphones on the escalator. and to end that silly little story, the girl enters the tramway Nr 10, which i also needed to take and sits in front of me, so i was constantly surrounded by ipods on my journey :-) the ipod is actually so hip, that it starts to show up in music videos, watch 50 cent’s p.i.m.p-video over at mtv to see 30s seconds of ipod, 50 cent and ladies with white clothes (not very much clothes…). one point i’d like to make is that altough this little piece of engineering and design has a quite high geek-factor i see more and more girls walking around sporting their personal digital player. so albeit the high geekness it has, it’s also a very good music player for the masses (which is very easy to use, as opposed to other mp3-players i’ve seen bevore). the ipod’s UI is so clever even my mother could use it :-)
g5
pure envy!
uglyfootballers.com
i found the fun link of the week (while looking at the website of iguana tatau; for no apparent reason (yes, i’m thinking about a new one…) :-) natalie has it in her link section: uglyfootballers.com. and yes, the ugliest of all is there: Trifon Ivanov. Some of my blog-readers might remember it, i had Trifons Pannini-pic from some worldcup on my pen-case during a long time in the high-school!
Pictures of the EMC
the pictures i made in Millau at the Swimming Championsship are online here. PS1: my results in the pool can be found here (i’m david haberthuer by the way :-). The open-water results here (i’m not really happy with the time i swam in the lake (5.2 km in 1:43, but i had a major cramp in both legs which made me make a break for about five minutes, so it’s not too bad…) PS2: this site here has a lot of infos on the bridge you can see in my pics.. PS3: because i visited one of the caves where they produce the roquefort-cheese i’m gonna cook that tomorrow.
a warm welcome back :-)
when i came home from the european masters championship i started up my trusty ibook to read the mails which came in through the week. and was quite puzzled :-) 135 mails in one week… after skimming some of them i found out that the vast majority of them were virus-mails (the virus is sobig-f). after follwing one of the hints on osxhints.com (btw. one of the best sites for hints regarding a truly beautiful os) i only had something like 25 real emails in my inbox, which was much more what i thought it would be :-) i didn’t use the mail rule proposed in the hint, which seemed a bit harsh, but followed the last comment to that hint)
European Masters Championship
Next week i will probably not update my blog at all, because i’ll be at the European Masters Championship in Millau, France. I’m quite a keen swimmer and am going to swim some disciplines there (200m Crawl, 100m Crawl, 50m Butterfly and a 5km open water swimming in the Lake Pareloup) So don’t be mad at me if i do not update at all next week, i have no idea if i’ll have internet access at the place we’re staying (maybe this is also a good thing for me so i’ll be able to read and sleep a lot :-)
this is the weirdest thing i've seen in a long time :-)
check this out (read in partynews)
are flash mobs still cool?
yesterday there was a flash mob here in bern (and i missed it, i thought it’s today, i confused the date…) and today there was a little article in two newspapers (in the BZ and in 20min). b. and me were thinking about “organising” a flash mob some weeks ago. he pointed out a link to me about the first flashmob in manhattan. (actually we talked about it on the 18th of june, because i was just looking up the conversation we had over ICQ…) and it seemed like a really funny thing to do. as berni points out, the flash mob in bern was not a full success, but i think this leaves room for more ideas…
look ma' :-)
how do you like my new dock? a funny little app named skin a dock makes this possible. and it’s even donationware, so double the fun :-) SaD needs the application enhancer from unsanity (go check them out, they have a bunch of cool OS X apps) to run, but it takes care of downloading it, so you only need to download skinadock, the rest is a walkthrough…
a new toy
well this is amazing. i thought - now that i’m a teacher - i need something practical to carry my files from home to school instead of burning them on a cd, emailing them to myself or carrying my ibook to school. so i bought one of these USB-memorysticks with 128mb capacity. today it was in the mail and i have to say i was truly surprised how small this thingy is (good there was a little hand-leash included :-)