Closing time – once again :)

Posted by on January 13, 2011 No comments

I’ll finally do it. I’ll move this blog to m@rk’s great spaces platform! I’ve explained the reasons for this in (I think) great detail here. Boom! There it is.

That said, let me wrap this up by saying THANK YOU! Thank you for following this blog, thank you for your comments, thank you for all advice on how to improve this blog, thank you for your feedback. I really hope you continue to enjoy my posts, the funny stuff I found in the depths of the WWW, my restaurant reviews (will-be-coming-soon™), my thoughts about programming, code poetry and web technologies and what ever I’ll be posting 😀

During the next few days/weeks, I’ll be merging all posts and comments from this blog to the new one, so don’t be surprised when you found lots of old crap over there. I don’t want to launch a new blog but instead really move and transform this one.

Oh. Almost forgot: Please update your bookmarks!

The “new” blog can be found here: http://spaces.nordblog.net/defaude/
The RSS feed is: http://spaces.nordblog.net/defaude/feed/

Umami

Posted by on January 8, 2011 1 comment

I need it so much, I even eat Japanese food while watching a 3D movie in a theatre 😀

Christmas 2010

Posted by on December 26, 2010 2 comments
  • Get some sleep
  • Eat great food
  • Eat lots of great food
  • Tidy up my own computer
  • Tidy up my sister’s computer
  • Finish the (hopefully) final boss in Infinity Blade
  • Play with my beloved niece
  • Eat even more great food
  • Find a meaningful question that can be answered with ’42’
  • … more to come

… a good Christmas season so far.

Random bullshit before christmas

Posted by on December 19, 2010 No comments

First of all: I love this cap: http://www.engrish.com/2010/12/extra-chuuse-pleuse/

Then: I also loved this windbag:

And finally: I really love it when I – eventually – get in the mood for the holidays! Merry Christmas to all of you (wow, this sounds so cheesy…)!

The atom…

Posted by on November 28, 2010 2 comments

Amazing: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20101105a1.html

Google Docs, Bob Ross and sunshine

Posted by on October 31, 2010 4 comments

Yay, it’s a long weekend due to a holiday on Monday and the sun is shining! And I finally found the time to sort out the appartment’s budget with my flatmate. And I saw “Bob Ross and the joy of painting”. This is a very, very good day!

Mandelbrot

Posted by on October 21, 2010 3 comments

One of the greatest minds of our time died this week – but his work (especially the famous Mandelbrot set) will live on. This great zoom video shows how beautiful and amazing (and mind-twisting, too) maths can be.

Kudos to Christian for showing me this video 🙂

Oh what a night!

Posted by on October 12, 2010 3 comments

roughly 7 p.m. Returning to my hotel after the first day at the WebTech. Trying to get some sleep, but it just won’t work. I’ll never be able to fall asleep before midnight, I guess…

11:30 p.m. Getting up again, taking a shower, preparing myself for the night.

00:30 a.m. Taxi ride from Mainz to Darmstadt, where the headquarters of the “Deutsche Telekom” are. The taxi driver is a little weird and stinky, but friendly in general.

01:00 – 06:00 a.m. Assisting with the launch of the software platform my company has been working on for the past few months.

06:00 – 06:30 a.m. Taxi ride back to Mainz – Friendly, but weird and stinky driver…

07:00 a.m. Taking a shower and trying to fall asleep as fast as possible.

08:00 a.m. Getting up again after not having slept at all.

08:27 a.m. Rushing down to grab something to eat before the bus back to the conference comes.

08:38 a.m. Leaving the breakfast lounge / Running to the bus station.

…

09.00 a.m. Already at the first talk of the day 🙂

WebTech 2010

Posted by on October 11, 2010 5 comments

I’m attending the WebTech 2010 in Mainz – it’s a hybrid conference together with the international PHP conference taking place in the nice Rheingoldhalle right next to the Rhein river. Oh my… So many geeks in one place! And almost no women here! (and those few that are here… well, you know…)

Anyways, I’m looking forward to another two and a half days of interesting talks and new insights to technology and the software industry in general.

PS: I did not forget about the pics of my appartment, it’s just that I couldn’t find the time by now… (and, to be honest, not so much progress has been made since my last post on that topic…)

Nice quote

Posted by on October 5, 2010 4 comments

Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

– from “Code for the Maintainer”