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OpenBC IPO

just stumbled across this news item at GigaOM:
First Web 2.0 IPO, Xing?

Does anyone have more details?

13 November, 2006

TL;DR

I can confirm this. If you want to hide something, hide it in a long text.

5 November, 2006

Event Calendar Plugin

WordPress plugin du jour – for future reference:

Event Calendar Version 3.1.0

P.S. Has anyone tried it out yet? Is it better than integrating Google Calendar?

5 November, 2006

Jeff Wall interpretation (kind of)

This Lisbon street scene reminded me of the Jeff Wall show I saw at the Schaulager some time ago…
http://www.schaulager.org/de/popup.php?pfad=archiv/jeff_wall/intro

Only that in my case it’s a snapshot…. instead of a careful composition.

4 November, 2006

How to start a presentation, book, or article

for future reference:

Creating Passionate Users: Better Beginnings: how to start a presentation, book, article…

29 October, 2006

Ekiden Marathon in Basel

Tomorrow in Riehen/Basel:

Ekiden-Marathon

I’m a substitute for one of the Lauftreff teams. For the 4.9 km distance. My very first race.

See also this Wikipedia article on Ekiden races

28 October, 2006

Just got back from a beautiful, long weekend in Lisbon. It was great. Fairly warm. Although everybody was talking about “mau tempo”. It rained a lot on Sunday, but no problem for this northern light: I had all of my rain gear with me. Plus this kind of weather was great for a city trip. I spent a lot of time walking around with my gadget arm in click-ready mode. I’ll post one or two pics in the next couple of days.

24 October, 2006

tired

i am tired… too tired to write an entry.

17 October, 2006

get moving

I agree with this gapingvoid post:

“So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this — the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.”

Publishing has just gotten faster, delete all the buzz words, and ignore the same old blogging discussions, and get moving…

11 October, 2006

GooTube

Om Malik was wrong and the rumors were right:
Google purchases Youtube for 1.65 bn $.

Somehow I felt Google wouldn’t be put off by the copyright nightmare.

What’s next?

P.S. GooTube is already taken.

10 October, 2006

Pixels to Print

useful:
Megapixels Chart – although sizes in cm and DIN would be more helpful for Europe.

10 October, 2006

in between

The weather turned out much better than forecast. I took this snapshot while sitting in the sun at Barfüsserplatz.

7 October, 2006

pÃªle-mÃªle

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything personal in my blog. Mostly because this isn’t a confessional blog. A couple of weeks ago I read thu all entries here at chiperoni.ch. And I like the nice side-effect that I can hold onto a fleeting moment by documenting it in words (even if it’s just a link to the plug-in du jour). Time is flying so fast. And we need to spend our time savouring the moment.

Usually I just skim thru the weekly Duden email newsletter. Not today. Here’s a quote from today’s newsletter regarding the spelling of foreign (usually English) loan words in German:

Neue Rechtschreibung 2006 – Zusammengesetzte Fremdwörter

Zusammengesetzte Fremdwörter werden zusammengeschrieben. Besteht die Zusammensetzung aus Substantiven, kann zur besseren Lesbarkeit ein Bindestrich gesetzt werden:
– Desktoppublishing (auch: Desktop-Publishing)
– Airconditioning (auch: Air-Conditioning)
– Sciencefiction (auch: Science Fiction)
– Midlifecrisis (auch: Midlife-Crisis)

Ist der erste Bestandteil ein Adjektiv, kann zusammengeschrieben werden, wenn die gemeinsame Hauptbetonung auf dem ersten Bestandteil liegt. Andernfalls gilt nur Getrenntschreibung:
– Longdrink oder Long Drink
– Hotspot oder Hot Spot
– Aber nur: High Fidelity, Electronic Commerce, Top Ten

Bei Substantivierungen aus dem Englischen, die auf eine Verbindung aus Verb und Partikel (Adverb) zurückgehen, setzt man gewöhnlich einen Bindestrich; daneben ist auch Zusammenschreibung möglich:
– Black-out (auch: Blackout)
– Count-down (auch: Countdown)
– Kick-off (auch: Kickoff)

Weird. Anyway, who cares about spelling on a Friday evening…

A couple of links that crossed my paths this week:

Indian Recipes – Chicken Curry
Study on the number of unpaid parking tickets incurred by UN diplomats
find code snippets (and passwords!) with Google Code Search

Buon weekend.

6 October, 2006

meteo update

it’s official: September 2006 was (a lot) warmer than August 2006.
For the full comparison see:
SF METEO

1 October, 2006

morning sky

taken yesterday morning on my way to work.

30 September, 2006

Weekend break

I’m going to Lisbon for a long weekend. Can anyone recommend a hotel, or bed and breakfast, or “clean and tidy” youth hostel somewhere in the downtown area? Things to do?

Wikitravel on Lisbon

30 September, 2006