October 31st 2005 Posted at General
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It’s October 31, at 8:36 in the evening. Outside temperature is 19 degrees Centigrade (66 degrees Farenheit). The golden leaves are falling in a gentle breeze. Riding to work with my bicycle was great this morning. During lunchtime, I went outside only wearing a T-Shirt and the sun felt great at some 25C/77F. Since we switched back from Daylight Saving this weekend, I had to ride home in darkness. It was still pretty warm, but already pitch black. And the golden leaves fell.
Weather report says it’s going to get nasty tomorrow. So this day today was really enchanted. Tomorrow is a Public Holiday, so many people took a day off today. The streets were pretty empty, the sun was golden, and the leaves fell. It very much reminded me of Rivendell, the place of eternal autumn.
I hope that winter arrives fast. That we don’t face endless weeks of sleet and fog. I want it crisp cold and clear. Farewell October.
October 28th 2005 Posted at General
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Today is actress Julia Roberts birthday. And so is mine. It’s not only the same day, it’s the EXACT same day and year. This means Julia Roberts turns 38 today. So do I. I wonder how she feels today, and whether she is happy.
Though I knew about the birthday sharing with Julia Roberts for some time, I had to rely on the IMDB to see if other celebrities share my birthday. Check out the list for October 28 – at least for 1967 there’s not another person I know. I haven’t checked the full list yet.
October 26th 2005 Posted at General
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While working in Wikipedia (you know how it goes: you edit an article, then you need to change the cross reference, then the cross references cross reference, etc.) I came accross this hilarious link:
Titanic in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies
Enjoy!
October 19th 2005 Posted at Internet
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So I got an Orkut invite. Thanks Mark! Hope you do not get spammed with requests for them. Well, hope I do not get spammed with requests 
However the system has a bad hair day today – but they get 100 points for originality in their error messages. 
Give me a couple of days, then I will compile a bit which compares social networks. Guess this will be interesting.
October 18th 2005 Posted at Internet
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So, this guy samy hacked MySpace.com with a rather simple Ajax script, wasn’t aware of the exponential rate at which his worm grew, and pulled the plug. It’s a rather funny story to read, and the interview he gave to Google Blogoscoped is pretty funny too. What no-one pointed out so far is how crappy MySpace.com must have been programmed that something like this could have happened…
Well, though samy is not my hero, he nevertheless made me register with MySpace.com. This is the third social network I’m subscribed to (still waiting for an invite to Orkut), and they are all but similar to each other. If I find the time I will do a short comparison.
So far, MySpace.com seems to be the most fun, OpenBC was the most useful for business, and LinkedIn is the most boring and complicated one.
Stay tuned!
October 10th 2005 Posted at General
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The new Terry Pratchett novel “Going Postal” just arrived as paperback. I was lucky since I had a 5 EUR voucher from amazon so I only paid 1.09 EUR for it. I haven’t started reading yet, but probably will later tonight. Since Night Watch, Pratchett’s style has changed considerably and the novels got more intense, the characters more finely tuned.
On a sidenote: the way I got the 5€ voucher was rather funny. I got it from an Amazon poll regarding Harry Potter a few months ago. I have to admit that I am not overly keen regarding Harry Potter. I only saw the first movie a few days ago and never read one of the books. But – hey – why not taking the survey. So the first question came up regarding why I like Harry Potter. None of the options applied, but the last option was “I’m not really interested in Harry Potter”. It was a bit bizarre for a poll but I selected it since it was the truth. The next question was how I would prefer to order the new Harry Potter. Again none of the options applied, but the last read “As I said before I’m not a fan of Harry Potter”. And so every single one of the questions had a more or less funny phrased option saying that I’m not interested in Harry Potter. I finished the survey and got my 5€ voucher.
October 5th 2005 Posted at General
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I was visiting the “InterGEO” tradeshow today, and came across a stunning company name:
I couldn’t believe they actually use this as their company name. I wonder if they came up with it by their own or if they were counseled in any way. If so, I would try to make the counselor liable.
If anyone likes to see where their experience has gone, go and look at http://www.gon.de
