Archive for December, 2005

Off to Hamburg

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Now I’m leaving to Hamburg to go to the Revolver Club party.

22C3: Summary

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Again just a short list of the lectures I attended.
#3 day:

Private investigations in searching - Have a look at the creative search string optimizations to find everything for free. This guy was entertaining. But I definitly prefer to look for creative commons content.

Open Source, EU funding and Agile Methods - Both talks from the PyPy [...]

22C3: #2 day

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Just a short list of the talks I saw yesterday:

PyPy - Python implementation in Python (lecture)
Search Engines - Oracles of the Information Society
Podcasting Explained
Digital Identity and the Ghost in the Machine
Literarisches Code-Quartett

And I met Action Felix from Plazes and we had just a short talk about the new symbian client. Whoohoo, it’s coming closer [...]

22C3: #1 day

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

A short summary of my first day at 22c3:
libavg is a python library for easy media system development. Nice alternative not to use flash or director. It’’s already capable of video and 3d sound. Image editing will come soon…
I also watched three interesting talks about p2p algorithms, intelligent search engines and applied machine learning.
At [...]

Collaborative Editing

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Have a look at http://22c3.ito.com/. Joi set up SynchroEdit, a live document editor. Looks similar to SubEthaEdit but it’s optimized for firefox.
Everything else about 22c3 is in the wiki and of course at technorati and flickr.

Off to Berlin

Monday, December 26th, 2005

See you at 22c3…

Where is Santa Claus?

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Kai has made a new documentary about why Santa Claus is missing christmas this year.
Watch it at youtube

Linus the troll

Monday, December 19th, 2005

I can’t believe, what I’ve just read. This post from Linus Torvalds on the gnome mailing list. What’s going on? It’s such a flame-bait.
My Gnome/Ubuntu desktop is very productive and I don’t miss a thing. Ubuntu’s success is based on the approach to keep things simple and usable which is very similar to what the [...]

ICQ morons

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

A friend of mine is having problems with her ICQ lately. Strange people contact her all the time. Some German most of them Turkish. She doesn’t why this is happening, but those people are not going away. I found two other blog posts about it, seems there is something weird going on with icq. If [...]

Live web

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

By the way technoratis new feature ‘View in mini’ is a nice way to follow urgent topics besides subscribing interesting topics with your feed reader. Watch any tag or search in a small window being updated every minute. Where is the widget?