mobile blogging

June 11th, 2006

…also works on the baltic sea, somewhere near the coast of denmark.


some freighter ship


parts of the crew (but not me)

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skatepod.de gestartet

May 22nd, 2006

als regelmaessiger teilnehmer der berliner skate night ist mir der mangel an begleitender musik schon eine weile ein dorn im auge. (abgesehen von der klaeglichen beschallung eines berliner radiosenders im start- und zielbereich.) einziger lichtblick war bisher ein mir unbekannter skater, der ein anscheinend selbstgebautes beschallungsgeraet auf dem ruecken traegt um seine unmittelbaren skatenachbarn mit musik zu versorgen. nur ist einer auf 10.000 leider viel zu wenig. es muss also was groesseres her, und es muss natuerlich auch irgendwie web 2.0 sein und mit communitybeteiligung und so. daher:

Skatepod.de - music for the skate people.

auf der seite werden spenden gesammelt, um davon iPods sowie iPod HIfis zu kaufen. diese werden sich dann gleich dem vorbild auf den ruecken geschnallt und dann auf zur skate night. jeder, der spendet, darf sich musik wuenschen. und die muss natuerlich frei sein, GEMA zahl ich jedenfalls nicht. spenden kann man auf 2 wegen: entweder paypal oder ein t-shirt/aufkleber etc. im eigenen shop kaufen - spreadshirt macht’s moeglich. und als kleine spendenmotivation: am ende der saison werden die gekauften geraete unter allen spendern verlost.

spread the word.

(wir brauchen noch t-shirt/logo/flyer designs, anyone?)

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online banking 2.0

May 18th, 2006

why hasn’t anyone implemented this?: a simple (maybe xml, or better yaml or …. ) data format for storing bank transfer instruction. i want the people on ebay that i buy stuff from send me a little text snippet that i can copy&paste into my online banking site. my bank can then parse it and present me with a filled out bank transfer form that i just have to confirm - instead of me copying every piece of information - account number, name, branch number, amount etc - into all those fields manually.

some banking IT person please read this and do it.

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reading pdf documents on a mac laptop

May 6th, 2006
powerbook as is in book

apple’s preview has a feature that comes in very handy when reading larger documents on the screen: you can rotate any file in steps of 90 degrees by pressing [apple]+[r]/[l]. just rotate 90 degrees left, turn your laptop right and you can hold it like a book, having a screen that easily displays an entire A4 page without scrolling. for even better reading: turn on fullscreen - [apple]-[shift]-[f].

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show movies in clubs

May 6th, 2006

business idea for later in case things don’t work out: show movies that have star destroyers or other things exploding in them in a club, where people sit 3m from the 20.000W sound system, directly in front of the subwoofers.

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new photos: bike tour / oderbruch

May 3rd, 2006

photo album

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photo album

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a mountain bike tour going up the brocken and down again:

high water at the oder:

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google code jam 2006

May 2nd, 2006

the next google code jam europe is coming up….

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customizing trac

April 25th, 2006

trac is a lightweight, web based (software) project management tool. it includes a wiki, a ticketing/bug tracking system and a subversion browser.

i’m using trac for several projects, and am pretty happy with it. just one thing has always bothered me: after creating a new ticket, i usually want to get back to my favourite tickets report (in my case show active tickets grouped by priority). in the standard trac configuration, i have to click on view tickets in the main menu and then click on the correct report - way too much work after you’ve done it 1000 times.

so here is how to add your favourite ticket report to trac’s main menu:

  • locate a file called header.cs, you can find it in trac’s template folder. on debian this is /usr/share/trac/templates/
  • find out the id of the report you want to link to, it’s the number in the report url. in this example http://domain.com/trac/report/2 the report id is 2
  • copy it to <your trac instance>/templates
  • open it and look for <div id="mainnav">
  • this div contains all the links in the main menu
  • add the following code where you want your report link to appear:
    call:navlink("My Ticket Report", trac.href.report+"/2", ticket_view, trac.acl.REPORT_VIEW, "") ?>
  • replace 2 with your report id
  • that’s it.

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monome

April 17th, 2006

monome is simply a 8×8 or 16×16 button panel. you can connect it to any computer using usb. well, and then you can start doing all sorts of stuf: see the video

(via de:bug)

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firefox ads

April 13th, 2006

firefoxflicks.com is collecting suggestions for creating a 30s tv ad for firefox. there are a couple of videos on display already. this one’s *so funny*:


oh and this one by pete macomber is so cool:

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