about: things
on me and coding and some things

not really a blog post but the very first entry after the total collapse of my work of rebuilding the antic collection of old stuff fundamentally drowned together with its broken mainboard. gone,

this is now Linux uks 2.6.24-gentoo-r7 #1 SMP Thu Aug 21 14:53:10 CEST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7200 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
talking.

And as you might see, it took me 55 days before i made a post:

~: uptime
09:12:21 up 55 days, 12:48,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.0
~:

and now, back to business, and hopefully more posts about some hot stuff in the future here.

puh, das war nen hartes stück arbeit. meine alter linux hobel wird wohl dank meiner guten pflege bald mal seine 10 Jahresjubiläum feiern aber ansonsten fällt er so langsam deutlich ausseinander. Nachdem nun diese unfreiwillige Ansammlung antiker Software, frei von feature und security updates, mal wieder seinen geist aufgegeben hat und nicht mehr auf die beine kam musste ich nun endlich auf aktuelle versionen umgestellen.

alles nicht so einfach, da das package wartungssystem schon vor jahren seinen geist aufgegeben hat muss man den kram in guter alter weise von hand zusammenkompilen. und schon geht das los mit den dependencies. apache will nicht wg. libxml2, mod_php fehlt, wordpress kann dann nicht mit dem neuen php, und so diverse kleine utilities libs spaeter ist dann mal schnell ein tag weg.

aber wie sagt wordpress doch so schoen:

Consider rewarding yourself with a blog post about the upgrade,

ein neues mysql musste ich mir auch noch hinbasteln und das die Datenbank wohl schon seit jahren auf port 3306 offen war und der “root” account auch ohne password ist beweisst einmal mehr wieviel sicherer doch unix als windows ist.

Who hasn’t took the chance to go there, by now is pretty late. “Vom Funken zum Pixel” media art exhibition is closing today. The Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin  in Berlin was staging it for approx 2-3 months now. You might still catch it, when you run, it’s closing at 20:00.

Why i bother telling you ask? After closing, I will go there gearing down, because I had the pleasure and honor of having “The Invisible Shape of Things past” being exhibited there. This installation/work/sculpture/prints are a work i did together with Joachim Sauter over 10 years ago. Since then it was exhibited(and evolved) just a handful of times

What remains now, is to put it back into boxes. And to look forward to the next exhibition. coming soon.


Technorati Tags: mediaart, ishapes, art, exhibition

ok, after this very short twitteruption this afternoon of the premium xings i sat down tonight at home and thought, hmm? getting rid of advertising on xing.com isn’t really worth a premium membership. A short look onto the pagesource with firebug revealed the pretty simple html schema.

so even me personally was able to sketch a simplistic greasemonkey script to erase ad iframes from the xing page like follows:

UPDATE: fixed the script and updated pastie link(thx henrik)



eeeeasy, download from pastie download (old) (no guarantees, you know, script might eat your backups and such)

For those who don’t know, Greasemonkey is a firefox extension to add custom javascript to any website. And this means, you can do whatever you want with the content. There are greasemonkey scripts which are adding links to the amazon site linking to sites with better prices for example. not fair, but thats life. in the web20 world.

have fun

p.s.: they paypal/aws/whatever payment sponsor button to fork 1 euro from your saved premium account money i will  code next week – hope to welcome you back on payday.





Technorati Tags: xing, greasemonkey, adbuster, twitter

Have you ever wondered how the world around you would look like for ‘The man with the X-Ray eyes‘? Look no further. from the Touch design project emerged a set of beautiful visualization of the strange electro-magnatic creatures around us.

Another example on how the world changes for the ones with eyes to see,

have fun,
be scared,



Technorati Tags: rfid, design, art, visualization

amazon goes full circle with their webservices. After filesystem storage(S3) and raw computing power(EC2) with SimpleDB Amazons AWS now delivers the last missing piece for any web app you may want to build.

Again like the other AWS before SimpleDB is build on a simple concept and implements the pay as you go payment model. With no upfront money you get access to their clustered, monitored HA database system.

Lots of people where already anticipating this because a database solution were so obiously missing. What is more surprising, is that SimpleDB seems to be build on Erlang. I don’t know whether or not this will re-fuel the Erlang hype which kind of dwindled a bit since the pragmatics released joe armstrongs Erlang book earlier this year(note to self: should have posted my bookreview months ago).

Erlang, a kind of ugly/ancient language but full of beautiful concepts for scalable, reliable, distributed applications and this might get me moving again.




Technorati Tags: AWS, erlang

go read the valleywag on “Apple tracks which stocks you follow on your iPhone” to find out how apple shows interesst in what you’re doing. Oh what lucky bastards we all are. At least Google take care of us all and does not exploit our privacy.

“All mobile devices possess a unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number, and as the screenshot below indicates, the iPhone sends its user’s unique IMEI to an Apple server each time the widgets perform a query. The data includes which stock ticker was queried.”

just imagine.

and have fun


Technorati Tags: apple, orwell, 1984, bigbrother

It will not stay this way and i really like the tumble log format but won’t keep up with a daily rythm. Maybe 1.37 times a week on average. Second, i will find another place for this but it must be fully automatic and i have stuff to on my day job, so, i will be cut-and-paste from my tumple notes onto this blog for another while:

Extending “Object.prototype kills kittens”, and other insights from John Resig(of jQuery fame) in his one hour Google TechTalk on “Best Practices in Javascript Library Design”. Very worthwhile viewing.

“This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job.”, says Ronald Reagan about George W. Busch.

Marvel Superheros always win because they are better connected. Huh? At least that’s what they found in a social-web study ot the fictional Marvel Universe.

watch the video to see 5,000 Web apps in 3 1/2 minutes, but don’t blink. You will miss 4 start-ups with a single eye blink, hmm, not a bad rate though.

find a getaway on the map of internet black holes, maledives included. (via vallewag)

deconstructive SL architecture against the usual boredom on China Tracy’s blog. Watch out for falling debris!

flight404 does not get lost in bad taste and continues to put up cool videos.

this is not a blog post! it’s been ages since i’ve blogged. at least it feels like. and more things happend, then i can possible blog about. i crashed my disk, i switched my laptop(two events, not one), and i went on holidays, twice.

of course there’s always lots of planning of things to come on my side, but just to not loose those things in rain, i try chris’ tumblelog format and just dump my unsorted eclectic mix of random samplings onto you, hopefully for your viewing pleasure. be my guest, have fun.

got asked by my CEO about our .NET experience but didn’t dare to send her this.

Flickr opens up to even more flashy crossdomain scripting with new crossdomain.xml file (http://static.flickr.com/crossdomain.xml)

Erlang-Facebook bridge code is now open for use, sounds like a bizarre marriage though.

Go off limits in Second Life, camera-wise at least. Use Opt-Ctrl-D(or Ctrl-Alt-D on PC) to show/enable the client menu entry and than Disable Camera Constraints(Cmd-Opt-C)

da is was dran: You don’t need a plan, you need skills and a problem. 1. Don’t start out with big plans. 2. Work on skills. 3. Apply your skills to a problem. Most plans are rubbish. Business plans are fake.

What a weird programming can that be that allows you to say things like: COSA is inherently non-algorithmic?

The video dress he developed for Hussein Chalayan was made of a few thousands chips all powered with a battery whose life lasted 2 minutes, like, where to go when you have no limits.

”I’m more interested in simply having a better eavesdropping experience on Twitter”. YEAH! proposing a twitter ad-hoc grouping schema.

After years of waiting the Havoc Physics Engine upgrade for Seconde Life is in reach. Good news, but having Mono replacing the LSL script execution? dubious.

Generate Quantum random a bits to produce random numbers at a rate of 36 million per second. For those who needs it.

Implement binary search in erlang and learn that doing the right thing in the wrong language turns out to be totally inefficient.

2008 SXSW Interactive Panel Picker, so at least i can browse the panel proposal of the SXSW festival. I would love to go there.

Susan Wu got it all right on social media and twitter where: We’re now ..moving into a client agnostic(Flash, Ajax, Facebook-centric, or MySpace-centric) era, where clients … are marketing channels… ..creating standards around specific user behaviors .. is the key asset ..A client should be an interpretation of a user group’s needs within a specific context(by ‘context’, I mean the 14-18 year old females on Facebook have a different community ethos than the 14-18 year old females on MySpace…).

In July, Scientific American crowned Mattel’s BarbieGirls.com the “fastest-growing virtual world ever”. Are we living in a barbie world?

Now playing: Zolotu – ess01__Zolotu__Two_Years_of_ElectroSound_mix.mp3 via FoxyTunes

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Originally uploaded by joe.sixpack.

this image from a posting about wierd animals. see the full list @

http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/worlds-weirdest-animals-and-creatures/offbeat-news