On April 3rd, a flashmob event took place at the Marienplatz in Munich. I was showing the city to Freddy and Shiho who visited me at that time and we just managed to be there at the right time. Well, we’ve been roughly ten minutes too late, technically, but the start of the flashmob got delayed somehow so in the end, we arrived at the Marienplatz at the very moment the polonaise started π
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It’s getting worse…
Posted by defaude
on January 25, 2010
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… seriously, get me out of here! π
I might be a little geeky, actually…
Posted by defaude
on January 15, 2010
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My workplace looks like this at the moment:
I have a desktop PC running Ubuntu Linux. On that machine, I have a Windows XP virtual machine (to be seen on the 30-inch monitor) and on the very right, there’s my Mac. Hmm. I’m seriously working with 3 OSes at the same time π―
Cereals’n’Java
Posted by defaude
on December 7, 2009
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Hello, world! I’ve been quite busy working here in England at a 14/6 pace and just didn’t find the time for blogging… Ok, that sounds worse than it actually is:
- I’m coding together with my cousin Booka which is always fun
- The project is really interesting and challenging
- I finally get to use Java and not just study it in theory
- We go climbing every now and then
- We live in this fancy palace-like house
- Everything’s taken care of: cooking, laundry, shopping, etc.
To be honest, it’s really cool here. I like working together with Bookie in this environment where everything’s tuned for maximum efficiency and creativity at the same time. The only problem is: We have three four-hour slots of work per day which drives your feeling of time totally bananas. At the end of one day, events from the very same day’s morning feel like as if they’ve happened two or three days in the past because one’s usually not adjusted to three half work days per day π
But because it’s the Booka and he’s the biggest climbing-nerd I know, we often go bouldering or climbing and it’s awesome! Finally, I get to train that crap properly π My very personal problem is: I’m too heavy for my forearms! Damn, gotta slim…
Alright, gotta start working. Here are two random pics:
London – A first summary
Posted by defaude
on November 20, 2009
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Hey! I’ve been here for a few days already and still no post? Sorry ’bout that, but I’ve just been busy coding with Booka! π And even though this post and the one mentioning my flight here are called something with “London” I am not in London, actually… The house we’re living in is in a relatively small village near Sutton and it’s a blast! Huge rooms, too many bathrooms, extremely quiet etc. so we really can focus on the programming we’re supposed to do here.
Today finally, we had some free time and Booka, Wolle and me could stroll around in London, take some pictures and have a good time, of course 
We rode the train to Victoria station (yeah, that’s the one that’s to be seen in almost every Harry Potter movie as “King’s Cross” because Mrs. Rowling mistook it for the latter, by the way) and took a walk from there. We passed by Buckingham Palace where by coincidence some ceremony was going on and we were forced to wait until it’s over π After that, we crossed Green Park and finally arrived at Picadilly Circus. Haaah, finally. I’ve been here before and even though it’s like one of the no. 1 tourist-spots in the city, it’s actually quite lame and cool at the same time π It feels like a tiny version of the Shibuya crossing, doesn’t it? Anyways, we had lunch and continued our trip in the direction to Trafalgar square and Chinatown and finally headed down to the Thames where we “met” Downing Street, Big Ben and The Eye.
After that we entered The Tube at Waterloo station and went to Tottenham Court Road where we took a long walk down Oxford Street, had some Starbuck’s coffee (which sucked, by the way) and went back to Leicester Square to have dinner. Eventually, Miri joined us and after having drinks at a nice bar, we finally cruised back home. And London traffic is hell – seriously. 9:30 p.m. and all roads are still packed with cars? Seriously folks, where do you all wanna go? Why don’t you ride your beloved Tube?
Update: I just had to step up to that DDR machine… Just like the good ol’ times with my English class from school when we were in London back then! π
My demotivator
Posted by defaude
on November 10, 2009
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Since I love demotivators, I just had to create my very first own one. I’ve been having this picture on my drive for several years now after having taken that screenshot
Jailbreak
Posted by defaude
on October 5, 2009
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Because my warranty will only last until 11 days from now and because I always wanted to have cheaper SMS with the great biteSMS application (which is up to now only available using Cydia on a jailbroken iPhone), I finally tried to jailbreak my phone… Unfortunately, I already installed the 3.1 OS version because I never cared about jailbreaking etc. which makes things a little complicated.
My first attempt failed and I was afraid I turned my phone into a useless brick at times… But eventually, I managed to revive it and it’s now installing the original un-jailbroken version of the OS. Will keep on tryin’ though π
Update: Jeah, it worked π My iPhone finally displays the amount of characters used by my SMS π
My mom and typesetting programs
Posted by defaude
on August 29, 2009
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Hey mom, look at this! I’m so totally cool and write my thesis with LaTeX!
Oh! So you’re wearing those strange gloves when you’re typing on your computer?
Love you, mom π