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.
Category: General
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tired
i am tired… too tired to write an entry.
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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…
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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.
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Pixels to Print
useful:
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in between
The weather turned out much better than forecast. I took this snapshot while sitting in the sun at Barfüsserplatz.
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pêle-mêle
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 TenBei 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.
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meteo update
it’s official: September 2006 was (a lot) warmer than August 2006.
For the full comparison see:
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morning sky
taken yesterday morning on my way to work.
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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?
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How to Make SIM Card Earrings – WikiHow
My personalized Google start page includes random links from wikiHOW. Some are hilarious and make me lol.
Today’s suggestion:
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meaningful work
via gapingvoid’s post on meaningful work:
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off the beaten track
This guy has got some very nice WordPress themes:
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Pantone Matching
If you run out of things to do…
There’s always pantone matching
source: SwissMiss
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Customizing Vanilla
for future reference:
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youtube videos
A couple of Youtube videos I’d like to share:
- Real estate agent, Three non blondes – I’ve been laughing at this video all week. I love the accent.
- My animated world – a bit long but funny
buon weekend,
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glass pane, shattered
Today’s snapshot.
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blu
Here’s a snapshot I took last Sunday on Lake Brienz.
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August
for the record:
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scrolling infinitely
Scoble says:
It’s my thesis that people will scroll almost infinitely. Just give them high-quality stuff. At Microsoft they did research and found most people won’t click on the “next” button. But, they will scroll. You’ll notice that the search engine at live.com doesn’t ever end. If I remember the research right they are finding that people look at something like five times more information if it just keeps scrolling than if they have to click next.
There goes one of my arguments…
Source: Scoble himself
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well-intentioned, but…
stumbled across this well-intentioned attempt to increase the salary of Malawi’s health personnel in Joanne’s blog:
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Donizetti
This week in Riehen: Opernfestival
I listened into the rehearsal this afternoon. Great voices. And the stage is some kind of catwalk.
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About the inhabitants of JavaPolis
Linguistic nit-picking on a Friday afternoon:
I noticed this phrase over at the JavaPolis 06 website (a login is required):17 299 JavaPolians registered
And I started wondering why JavaPolian, why not JavaPolitans?
After all, people living in a metropolis are metropolitans or have metropolitan characteristics.
The same applies for people from Minneapolis.
Maybe the ending for metropolis is different in French or Flemish…
And what about the inhabitants of Atlantis, what are they called?As you can see, the benefits of a linguistics degree are endless.
More linguistic nit-picking available here.
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mouse potato
Main Entry: mouse potato
Function: noun
Etymology: after couch potato
slang : a person who spends a great deal of time using a computerSource: Definition of mouse potato – Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
