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half marathon is over

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

micha, me, nico, arne

i scored ~4518th place (out of ~13500 finishers (males)) with 1:54:20h at the 2006 berlin half marathon (~21 km). let’s see about the marathon in september (anyone wanna join? leave a comment) and oh right, what about the iron man? :)

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deutsche bahn - full service travel

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

“deutsche bahn - our night trains to east europe” - apparently, night train service to east european countries now includes east european girls… ;)

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neukoelln has a fon wifi hotspot

Monday, February 27th, 2006

as of today, i am an active member of the fon community (a fonero), which means i have set up a wifi hotspot that gives free internet access to any other fonero around my house.

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getting things done (gtd)

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

somehwere on the gtd blog over at 43folders i recently read of a simple way to improve your productivity: set your email client to check for new emails only every hour or even couple of hours (assuming you have set it to something like 10 minutes as i did). it sounds like a very simple thing but it really works. you simply don’t get distracted that often. this then allows you to reach a state referred to as flow, which means you can concentrate on your work much better.

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iTunes U

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Stanford University has opened their own iTunes store, where people can download lectures and speeches for free. http://itunes.stanford.edu/

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Zeit Podcast follow up

Friday, December 9th, 2005

How cool is that? Today i got an email from the actual webmaster of the zeit.de web site. he likes my Zeit podcast tool mentioned in an earlier post. looks like we are going to get an official Zeit podcast soon.

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i’m rich

Monday, November 28th, 2005


My blog is worth $564.54.
How much is your blog worth?

too bad it doesn’t say where to get the money…

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secret service tracks printouts

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

as the EFF has revealed now, color laser printers, by request of the U.S. secret service, mark every printout with the date of the print and the serial number of the device(!).

that way, secret service can track the origin of every prinout made.

the eff team had found tiny yellow dots on the pages and has now manged to decrypt those.

big brother is watching.

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Die Zeit unofficial Podcast

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

i got bored of work today, plus, i got the first issue of my ‘Die Zeit’ subscription today - well, there had to be something to do about it. there was :)

having a Zeit subscription also gives me access to the audio version of many articles on their web site - unfortunately, there is no podcast available so i could have the articles downloaded to my ipod automatically. well, there was none.

i spent the afternoon writing a little java app that searches the zeit.de site for new audio articles and presents the results as a podcast. it therefore runs a little web server on the local computer, so one can just point iTunes or whatever podcasting client at localhost and that’s it. of course, you still need a Zeit subscription or premium account to access the files. anyone who’s interested can download the little app including sources from here. feedback welcome.

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germish

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

germish […] describes language based on the German grammar that includes a jumble of English and pseudo-English idioms, or vice versa. (wikipedia)

so far to the ‘official’ definition, but there’s more to it. something that’s even more fun (pain), and that’s germans trying to pronounce english… here’s my list, compiled from a couple of weeks of IT lectures, 3 days of conference talks and a bit of everyday life in germany:

IT genglish

view - few
j2ee - g2ee
servlet - servley (kinda french)
applet - appley (french again)
jboss - gboss (the letter j is a hard one for a lot of people)
cisco - shisco (italian?!)
mime - mimee (after too much talking about apcheee)
tier - tyre (quote: “it’s english, so it’s prononced tyre” after the person had pronounced it correctly)
ejb - egb (nasty j again)
configure - confidgure
host - hosst (also a favourite of many)
ethernet - etternet
meta model - meeta model
thread - fred (”and then you kill the fred”)

everyday germish

push - pash
bidirectional - bedirectional
dynamics - denamics
verdict - werdict (noone ever explained the difference between the english ‘v’ and ‘w’ at school)
provide - prowide (same)
integrate - integuate
with - wiss (ouch, ‘th’ is another favourite)
three - will - vill
occur - oquor
three - swee, tree, free (”how much is that? free dollars”)
legacy - ledgacy
of course - of curse (my favourite)
module - model
create - crate
height - hate
content (as in the content of a web site) - content (as in happy)

additions welcome :)

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