Numerological disappointment
I am pretty sure that a “Pizza Diabolo” should have article number 666. In today’s lunch order it turned out to be aricle number 444, which was sort of anticlimatic.
Author: Michael Keukert
Latest video now online
We just put the last video I worked on on YouTube. The video shows our print-workflow solution “reprocontrol” in action, outlining how it saves time compared to traditional approaches. The video is based on a PowerPoint presentation I made almost 3 years ago. In a first step, we illustrated the content of the presentation with … [Read more…]
Google Apps and Google Alerts
Some months ago I moved my mail-domain to Google Apps Standard Edition, which provided a neat way to manage my email boxes “in the cloud”. Soon it showed that while Google Apps indeed provided some great service, the integration into the regular Google account system was not really there. I still needed a “normal” Google … [Read more…]
What is missing here?
It is day 3 after the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano in Iceland brought the European air traffic down. My friend Lorna from Scotland was the first to report about it, and she told me about the chaos on British airports. Now the choas spreads slowly across the rest of Europe, with our own chancellor stranded in Lisboa. … [Read more…]
75.917 spam comments in the queue
So this blog was not touched since July 2007, and in those 17 months there were 75k successfully intercepted spam comments. Bandwidth is far too cheap it seems.
German actor Ulrich Mühe passed away
Danke! Ulrich Mühe on Wikipedia
Reliability of digital cameras
BoingBoing has a post on the person who photographed the new Harry Potter book. The person obviously forgot to manipulate/erase the EXIF metadata, so the camera type and serial number is known. The real dynamite (at least for me) lies in the quote of a Canon official: “From what we know, the device is one … [Read more…]
Major blogroll cleanup
I’m sorry for the ones that dropped out (except for those whose last update was in January or even December), congratulations for those who stayed in. Soem of the dropouts I deleted, a few were sent to purgatory (invisibility) with the chance of resurrection. The otherrs: keep up the good work!
My first guitar lesson
At the age of 16 I taught myself a little guitar. Ever since then, I played – sometimes more, sometimes less, but at a certain point all autodidactic efforts came to a stop. For my last birthday, friends and family gave me some money to get professional guitar lessons. And in about 30 minutes I … [Read more…]
Next Fiddler's Green concert
Just to show off – I’m probably the first person to have a ticket for the show in November 🙂