Chiperoni ku Basel

Category: General

  • Weekend snaps

    turn this lever here

    a couple of water drops catch a ride

  • open source morality


    The benevolent dictator model

    This article has been linked to from lots of WordPress sites, but I was just struck by the use of language… software is getting more religious and political comparisons.

  • crumbled

    Here’s a simple and rustique family recipe to make crumble:

    Cover the bottom of a heat-resistant dish with slices of fruit such as apples, pears, or plums.

    Stir up some crumbles for the topping (you can use the same recipe for the topping as in Streuselkuchen, but i’d leave out the cinnamon and use brown sugar instead)

    Add nuts and put into the oven for about 40 to 45 minutes until slightly brown.

    zwetschgen

    zwetschgen

    ze result before baking

  • Like this

    website, especially the little icons…

  • Introducing social software into corporations

    for future reference:
    An adoption strategy for social software in enterprise.

    Though the first comment makes me wonder a bit… why would you force somebody to go to a wiki to get a text. Surely using a tool is about making things easier.

  • Bah bah black sheep

    I’m thinking of getting this

  • Search phrases

    Dear regular readers of Chiperoni.ch,

    On Sunday I continued reading the “New PR” book and i’ve got 3 pages of wild notes waiting to be blogged… but I’m too tired for PR just now. Oh no, i hope it’s not blogging fatigue 😉

    Search phrases that led people to my blog today:

    • i want to listen to capital fm malawi – Well, here’s the link to my blog entry on Capital FM’s daily internet show. I listened to today’s version about the increase in fuel prices. Apparently MW minibus fares are increasing by 20%.
    • 2007 pictures blantyre malawi africa – Best place to view lots of Malawi pics is the Malawi Flickr group.
    • hiking basel mountain – Sorry, no mountains in Basel. Unless you’re from northern Germany, then Chrischona might qualify. But the Jura and the Alps are close enough and extremely beautiful. Here are all of my posts labeled hiking.

    Other half-geek news:

    I’ve been reading about the new Canon 40D.

    And if I ever run out of things to do, there’s a new version of WordPress to install and explore…

  • My kind of blue



  • Reflection

    Today’s fave…

  • z’Basel am Rhy

    Today’s favorite find!

  • Different

    Stumbled across this 5 mins ago:
    group94

  • Motion sickness

    Text snippet:
    Interestingly, susceptibility to motion sickness increases with fitness.

  • Lego face

    Seen in Martin Gyger’s Flickr stream:

    These lego faces are fun!

    Just like web icons… you can see the pixels when you zoom in.

  • USA Stats

    A lot less monolingual than you think it is:

    Percent of People 5 Years and Over Who Speak a Language Other Than English at Home: 19.7%

    via
    USA erklaert

  • Too much



    I don’t usually write about politics, but this poster campaign crosses a line. In my humble opinion it’s racist and backward.

    I don’t understand why so many Swiss people are ignoring it. Some say it’s just the usual pre-election noise.

    As suggested here, I’m going to send back all of the brochures clogging up my mailbox.

    See also this BBC article

  • Flickriver

    Scrolling Ad Infinitum:

    I discovered a new Flickr tool called Flickriver…
    It loads all images into one long html page, i.e. you simply scroll down to view all pictures for a tag or group:

    My contacts

    My faves

    Malawi group

    Canon ImageBrowser to FlickrUploadr:

    BTW, I’ve found a shortcut how to add photos from Canon ImageBrowser to Flickr Uploadr. In the ImageBrowser, open Preferences and add Flickr Uploadr to the list of external editing applications. Once you’ve added it, you can send images to Flickr Uploadr while in preview mode using Edit > Edit with Registered Application > Flickr Uploadr.

    Alternative to Satellite:

    I stumbled across lumis Gallery. The concept is similar to Satellite, i.e. you can host photos on Flickr and reload them on your own server within your own layout. It seems to have more features…. It requires PHP 5 and a Flickr account.

    Today’s personal faves:

    helmet required

    Bernoulli-Silo

    bridge detail

    schoggi-kuchen mit lychee glace

  • MAMP or pre-installed Apache

    For local WordPress fun, I might install this package:
    MAMP

    Although Apache is already available.

    The pre-installed Apache can be accessed like this:

    • Go to System Preferences > Internet and Network > Sharing
    • Select Personal Web Sharing or click Start.
    • Copy & paste the URL listed in the lower part of the dialog box into a browser. The corresponding HTML and image files are located in Sites.

  • Installing Tomcat on a MacBook

    Today I installed Tomcat on my MacBook. In order to run a website with Java servlets locally.

    Here are my non-developer notes, for my own future reference.

    To check if Java is installed, open Terminal and type:
    javac -version

    In a previous session, I had already installed the Apple developer tools, which includes JDK 1.5.

    Note: you’ll need to list the location where Java can be found:
    export JAVA_HOME=/usr

    Download and unpack the Tomcat zip files to a directory.
    Open conf/tomcat-users.xml and change the user and password settings.

    Go to your Tomcat directory and type ./bin/startup.sh

    Open a browser and type http://localhost:8080 to see a Tomcat welcome screen.

    In the final step, I modified conf/server.xml. Luckily I had my Windows setup to refer back to, or I would have been really lost at this stage…

    tomcat

  • close up of my running shoes



  • Bush League

    Interesting read:

    Cy on his Malawi experiences

    The contrast between rural and urban areas in Malawi is huge. I remember an article I read (probably The Nation or The Daily Times) during my last stay, on how people in a remote village in the northern region near Rumphi can get reception for their mobile phones if they climb a certain ant hill. There was a photo of a group of people with a solar panel. And somebody was quoted as saying how this is improving communication with family members all over the world.

    (BTW, if anybody in Malawi remembers this article and has access to the archives, I’d appreciate a digital copy. Should be an issue in Feb or March 2007… i’m asking for the impossible)

  • Chiperoni.ch on MacBook



    when it was still new and pristine…

  • Running blues

    sportiva

    Running didn’t go well today. I was totally demotivated. Although I’ve been training regularly all summer, I was slow and running behind the group. After about 45 or 50 minutes I slumped in a deep dark “not motivated” hole. And knowing the route didn’t help much either, ‘cos it demotivated me even further.

  • GIMP and GraphicConverter and more

    The newness of my MacBook is decreasing rapidly. I’ve installed GIMP (works nice and zippy), GraphicConverter (useful for quick resizing of images), TextWrangler (an editor), MS Office 2004 (although I’m considering to install NeoOffice and use MS Office via Parallels only).

    I had a look at the websites of Scribus and Inkscape, but I think I’ll wait before installing them.

    I’ve installed the Subversion command line client and a little plugin (aargh, can’t remember the name) that allows you to upload and commit files from the finder. I didn’t like SvnX much.

    I like the size of my MacBook. Much easier to lug around. Quicksilver is very useful.

    (update) The SVN plugin is called SCPlugin.

  • Content drives action

    reading

    I started reading “The new rules of Marketing and PR” yesterday, and I like it. I’m at Chapter 3, and so far it’s a good summary of things I’ve discovered. Reinforcing experiences which I’ve been calling Low Budget Internet Marketing.

    A couple of notes:

    • Today’s search engine setup means you can reach buyers directly.
    • One-way interruption advertising is over.
    • Good content will help buyers decide. There’s people like you and me that do their own research and consider a decision over a period of time before buying.
    • There’s a “long tail” effect for news announcements as well.
    • The lines between PR and marketing are blurry.

    Meerman’s right about the way consumers and buyers do their own research, ignoring the advertising to a large extent. And evaluating on their own. Take me as an example: I’m in the marketplace looking for an entry-level DSLR and I’m reading review sites, asking questions, watching the news and prices.

    (Yes. My evaluation process is long. And I overdo it sometimes. But then I’ve been working in IT for the past 9-10 years. 6 months minimum.)

    The Learning Effect of Blogging:
    There’s one effect I’d like to highlight: by setting up my own blog, posting short tumble blog-like entries, and keeping track of a couple of marketing bloggers, the new rules aren’t that new to me. Blogging is a great way to learn. Instead of watching from the sidelines, my advice is to dive in.

    I’ll try to post a summary as I go along… Mlle. A. is reading the same book. Between the two of us, we’ll get some two-way discussion going. Feel free to join us.

  • Ipernity Q and A

    Via Flickr mail I asked somebody who seems to be on the Ipernity payroll:

    Thanks for leaving a comment in my photostream.
    I was wondering if you could answer my question regarding Ipernity’s funding.

    Who are the investors?
    Is it independent? Is it funded by venture capital? Or does it belong to another company?

    See my blog post: The most interesting pictures

    Here’s the answer I received via Flickr mail:

    ipernity is french company totally independent and self-funded.

    Well. I still think it looks a bit like Sixapart’s Vox.