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2008-08-21
I think it's funny when people write "mopstly" instead of "mostly". Haha.
But then again, I'm German, you wouldn't understand ... like most Germans.
This blog is not dead, but my desire to write updates is seriously ill right now. I'm so caught up in my diploma thesis that I literally don't let myself loiter and litter this lovely luisure blog with lousy letters for little laughter. Or, I just did. Oh well.
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2008-08-01
Greeeetz from Malta
A more elaborate report follows soon!
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2008-07-14
Heal the world!
Do I hear a whiny "but I can't"? No you can't. Or do you? It has never been so easy to help fight cancer, malaria or aids. Or the climate. Or proteins and
prime-numbers. And you don't even have to get up to help. Just follow this link to The World Community Grid, install BOINC and feel smug: You make a difference.
BOINC is a very clever piece of software that divides big computation problems into small(-ish) chunks and sends the pieces all over the web to good people's machines (like yours!) to solve them. This way, the interwebs becomes a great supercomputer with computing powers exceeding easily that of "ordinary" supercomputers! So, basically, you allow your CPU, which is bored all the time anyways - just look into your task-manager, to go out and play. And you should, this wickedly fast meta-machine was set on trail to hunt down solutions, all mankind can appreciate (not dying is fun!). And no, BOINC won't trouble or annoy you in any way, if you don't want to. All you spend is CPU-power wasted anyway and a few cents for the energy your CPU eats more than usual. More energy == Climate-Killing? Then set BOINC to fight that climate!
If you have a PS3 you keep running all day just for fun or (seriously? O_o) to surf the webtubes, you can contribute, too! Just look in your CrossMenu for "Folding@Home". Actually, thanks to good programming and GPU-usage, the PS3 is a even more powerful node than your average PC.
So be good, spend CPU-cycles!
... and yes, I run BOINC. And I just spread the word. So I can feel even better than you. Win.
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2008-07-06
Anyone interested in information visualization? I just found a very beautiful visualization of your music-listen-behaviour based on the last.fm database here:
And here's a picture of such a visualization of my very own behaviour:
For an interactive version, just enter "KoMaXX" as user-name, and see, what kind of crap I like to listen to ;)
If you want something similar embarrassing, just get a last.fm-account and enter your name in the site after the link above.
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2008-07-03
French schools suck or don't do any science. Or history. Or teaching. There is no other explanation for this:
"I am French and have never heard of Kopernikus. And neither did my friends"
I mean: One dumb guy? Sure happens a lot (even you might be one - even ME! On second thought: No, not me.). But the the majority of the audience? That's a nation-wide embarrassment!
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2008-06-21
Don't you just love web-comics?
... and blasphemy?
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2008-06-19
Time for a "WTF of the day":
Dancing Spore Penis:
XD
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2008-06-12
I'm back.
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Yes, I was gone. Just look at the dates of the posts! But I have a great excuse: My DSL-modem was broken and it took my ISP until today to deliver a new one. Thea also delivered two new splitters, although the old one was alright. Funny thing is: One of the new ones is broken :D
Alright, that's a rather bad excuse considering webcafes, open w-lans, my university access... The real cause was UFO Afterlight, a really beautiful and addicting game - like all of the previous UFO games I played. Come to think of it, this UFO-series of games chewed lots of my time since the unforgotten "Enemy Unknown" and "Terror from the Deep". What can I say, I looove tactical games with RPG-elements. Not a surprise, if you look a the features of PoRoBa, right?
Even, if it was bad as an excuse, it's still true: I had to live offline for a few days.
Guess, what I missed most (besides a myriad ways to waste time)! dict.leo.org. Really! I derive from that fact two things:
- I'm totally used to and dependent on some webservices by now.
- My English still sucks (at least act surprised! Jerk.).
I already asked leo for five words only for this post. Should webservices make you feel all warm and fuzzy (leo'd ^^) inside?
Also, funny how the usual acquired reflexes don't work anymore: "Something doesn't work - let's check google what others did." ... pwnd.
There was actually quite something to brag about in the last weeks! And most probably I won't tell you in one of the next posts ;)
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2008-05-26
... nothing really new and insightful to tell, but I feel already bad, if I don't write an update for a week. Which is kind of funny and sad, since I don't have exactly a crowd waiting in angony for the next lines of poor English ...
Then: Just a really sweet video from somewhere in the web:
microwaves are handy alien breeders
Haha, that was a pun: Cell phones are called "handies" in Germany. Haha.
