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2008-02-21
taromda (you were just hitting keys for that nick, right?) seems to be right: I'm doing something wrong at Basketball: I got injured again.
>_<
This time it's just a little rip in my upper lip - but, what the hell? In ten times playd at least five times my blood was flowing. That's nearly 75 % - and that's close to every single time! But, well, until the moment of ouch it's always fun - so I'll keep playing. And next time, somebody else wil suffer. Muahahaahahahaa.
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2008-02-18
Today's blog entry is a story of a hero. And (embrace yourself, this may come as a shock) it's not about me. Well, it is about me (after all, this is my blog), but I'm not doing the heroing.
Last Thursday a good friend and I went snowboarding at "Axamer Lizum" in Austria. Good snow, fine weather and my - in comparison to my friend's - superior boarding sk1llz made it a real fun day. Until we got back to the car (imagine some dark ambient notes here).
There, exhausted but happy, I unlocked my car, opened the door on the passenger's side, put the key to the center console for later and went to the hatchback - to find it locked. WTF? I turn around to see that I already closed the passenger's door. Which was locked, too, with the key smiling gleefully from inside the car. A actually managed to lock myself out from my own car. D'ho.
Well, the cellphones had a good time with the key in the car, so we had to persuade people in the surrounding establishments to call the automobile club for us. Well, that finally worked (just so much: The people at the "Olympia"-hotel were very friendly. The owners of the neighbouring restaurant not. Not at least. And, judging by the looks of their kitchen, I would only eat there, when I felt adventurous) and one and a half hours later a car from the ÖAMTC stopped next to my car on the by now deserted parking lot. At this point, the hero of this story enters the stage, so imagine golden light from a spot and fanfares playing.
And his heroing begins as proper heroing begins: He is struck with awe by the grandness of his challenge, so his first words are: "Den krieg ich nicht auf!" ("I won't get that one open"). But he doesn't hesitate and despair, but collects his wits and bravery and rushes to work. Mere seconds later the door is opened a little, just enough to squeeze a wire into the car. With this wire, the door opener is pulled. Once. Twice. But the door won't open!
Don't be afraid, that wasn't the last trick up our hero's sleeve. Seconds later, the engine hood is opened by another genius quick twitch of the wand wire. The grand hero opens the fuse box and manages to magick some juice from the battery into some currents with a wiry-wandy-device. And suddenly, with no sound whatsoever (which proves the environment's lack of dramatic sense), the interior of the car has power again! Big deal? Yes, because now the almighty wire just needs to press the "open"-button in the car - and the task was complete - a little even to the surprise of the hero! I can't remember the last time when I was relieved like that!
To my shame, I didn't even ask the hero's name. But I thanked him effusively and I want to do it here again, even though he won't most likely ever read these lines:
Thank you very much! I won't forget this effort!
By the way: I wanted to add the ÖAMTC-logo to this entry with a big "thumbs-up", but didn't get the allowance. Well, the true heroes there ride in the cars. As it should be.
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2008-02-16
PhotoPolis will be available on the next c't-magazin issue for macs!
Had I known, how much resonance and feedback this program would cause, I would have spent a little more time finishing it! To be honest, I'm a little ashamed of the final quality. I mean, sure, it works and proves the concept, but doesn't actually satisfy my own quality standards :/ It was just a hack to finish an university course, after all.
Oh well, I hope all you users enjoy it anyway. If you don't, rest assured: I can do better!
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2008-02-11
Well, you've most probably noticed already, that the index/news page doesn't load all news-posts anymore, but gives the user the power to select just a part of it. This reduces the size (and thus the loading time) of this page monstrously :)
However, the "Recently changed"-box is bad as ever: These pages are actually loaded. Completely. I'll have to figure out, how to change that.
By the way, this site is completely php by now. Every page, as the navigation bar, is created from database-entries every time a page is queried. And yes, I am quite proud of this ;)
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2008-02-11
Have you heard of "Art Lebedev"? No? You're sure? Remember that insanely awesome keyboard that had little displays instead of regular buttons? That's from them (and they haven't stopped developing there!). Actually, that's one of their sane ideas. I mean, what's in their vodka to come up with something like this:
Image-copyright: Art Lebedev Studio
Seriously, this company is definitely on my top-four list of employers!!
In other news: As the WTF of the day, I recommend today: Office Space. It's Dilbert times 1000 as a movie. This flic is unbelievably absurd ... and most probably not that far from reality.
Oh, and DrCox is in it, too =)
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2008-02-08
Time for a conclusion after one season of playing basketball at my university:
... but worth it =)
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2008-02-06
Wheeeee, we have a pet =)
She is a girl bug. And her name is bughira. She's a little hard to walk, but playing catch with her is just adorable. No other bug looks so excited when you throw a stick for it!
... well, as said, back to goofy.
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2008-02-02
This little fun-page becomes a little political today. I never intended to do that, but this topic really bothers me.
Image from AK Vorrat (thx!)
This poster is targeted at German audiences, but the problem is global. Terrorists scare people - that's what the term "terror" means. I don't say you shouldn't be scared, but the chance that you are going to be harmed during an act of terrorism is almost negative - at least in most western countries in the world ... so, I take it back: I do say, that you shouldn't be scared. But actually, I don't care much ;)
However, our politicians are scared, too. And their fear makes them see terrorists everywhere. And here it gets dangerous. The politicians, and thus: the state, don't trust the civilians anymore and perhaps never did. So, the state begins to protect itself against the people! That's what current security-laws do: They make sure, that citizens obey they law. You would anyways, but now you are forced. How could you be upright and honest, when any misstep causes immediate punishment? You can't. Thus, spying and control take the place of moral values. When that happens, when you're only "good", because there is no other way and not because you want to, the system will fail: No tyranny can persist very long. But it's not going to be pretty.
Oh, and the terrorists? They are not threatened by the new laws. It's still easy enough to hide communication, if you really want to. And of what use are detailed email and online information or surveillance footage after a suicide-bombing? It seems sometimes to me as if terrorism is the biggest ally of power hungry politicians, like Schäuble in Germany.
What can we do? Fight against immoderate security-laws with your vote. Don't be afraid. Enjoy your freedom, while you still have it. There might come a day, when you think twice before emailing a non-political-correct joke to a friend, because it might look bad in your file.
Oh, one more thing: Avoid anyone who uses phrases like "you have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide". People like these think privacy and crime are the same thing.
... phew, that was quite a rant. Back to goofy stuff ;)
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2008-02-01
I've finally found the solution to one of the most hotly discussed topics of our time: Evolution or Intelligent Design. And *dang*, I was wrong: The Intelligent design guys were right (who would have thought - judging by their discussion culture)! You ask, why I am so sure about that? Because, I've found the tool God designed the earth with: It's here: God's world maker. It leaked out and Nintendo found it - and puts it to bad for creating just fantasy worlds (or, wait ... gnaa, I'm real! ?). However it's the real deal, and the guys at Nintendo know that. They tried to hide it, but revealed them-self: right in the middle Intelligent[es] Design. Nice try. And now, I'm gonna get The Tool and tweak the world a little. Expect weird news from your tv!
*muahahaaahaaahha*
