Just visited FH Heidelberg for some hours. Got very impressed by the nice, new campus. There is a new open flair by using glass as room frame. Each floor is bordered by glass barriers, i.e. you can watch in all offices and training rooms. Very interesting feeling. Although the mensa is quite small for the [...]
Have a look at the brilliant new version of MS Paint, but remember: “Future is in the past!”. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxx2KcPWWZg]
Either, I am to old or blogging becomes out-aged. It turns out, that I am not able to write regularly interesting stuff here. This might be a result of my heavy work load or my old-aged style. Nevertheless, I decided to bring in some color and filled a really old flickr (non-pro) account with some [...]
Read this Spiegel article and think about it! I just had the same impression for last months and now I’ll try to change my daily life: Set precise priorities for incoming tasks Use a time schedule, split your day in time slices for single tasks Learn routine jobs, because they help to be efficient Stop [...]
A special German (hessisch) version of summer wine can be found here — funny!
Mac’s beautiful. I think almost everyone knows that beautiful interpreation of James Blunt’s song. Nevertheless, I have to _bookmark_ it [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsqi2QHXaFI]
New risk: Tidy up, otherwise you may hurt yourself or others [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az0_2pGnOAA]
The routing feature of google maps is brilliant. I’ve been searching for the route from Palo Alto to Walldorf. The estimated returned trip time is about 31 days, thus I was confused and I started to read the detailled steps. With step 29 I got stuck. It says: “Swim through the Atlantic Ocean — 3.462 [...]
In contrast to the US not any forename is allowed in Germany. A valid forename has to follow some rules, e.g. the cumulative number of forenames per person is limited to five! The mother’s attempt to give its son twelve curious forenames failed Read more about it here.
Taken from: Jim Rymarczyk, Chief Virtualization Technologist, IBM Fellow, Systems and Technology Group, Virtualization Technology Outlook, First International Conference, November 2006.