November 2005

There were 12 posts published in November 2005 (this is page 1 of 1).

pictures of the week 47

as in the last two years nina and me went to the polyball in zürich. it was a blast, although we couldn’t dance that much this year ’cause ninas back ached a bit after an hour of salsa :-)

the image below is one of my polyball-set on flickr. if you’d like to see some more images of us, then you should proceed over to the site of the fotostudio unartig. they made professional shots of all the attendants of the ball and supplied a photo-studio where you could make some selfportraits. the set of our self-portraits starts here and the professional shots start here.

don’t we look spiffy?

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oh, and thanks for the clothes, sabine!

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critical mass in bern

Critical Mass-1

someone [1] is organizing a critical mass in bern at the 6th of december. if you’d like to take part, come and show up on the bundesplatz at 18:00. i’ll be there, and hopefully a lot of others too (do you remember the critical mass after the suicmc04? it was so great!)

We aren’t blocking traffic; we are traffic.

[1] that’s the thing: no one really knows who did it, so no one can be blamed for it.

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keeping a promise

matthias posted “I’ll Ask You Something I’ve Always Wondered About You?” quite some time ago on his personal blog.

i just loved the thought of him saying things about me and now he finally did, read the – funny – “answers” in this post.

rule #8 of the little game says, that i must post it here, which is what i do here.

the rules are as follows: leave your name (and web-address) in a comment below and…

  • I’ll respond with something random about you.
  • I’ll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
  • I’ll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle with you in.
  • I’ll try to say something that only makes sense to you and me.
  • I’ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
  • I’ll tell you what animal you remind me of.
  • I’ll ask you something that I’ve always wondered about you.
  • If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal. You MUST.

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qr coded gloves

Dsc02420this afternoon i went to buy some gloves (it’s getting cold at work you know :-).

coming home i noticed that they have a normal label and a supplementary qr code (german) sewn into them. since i couldn’t find a decoder for os x (the java-version of the one urs [1] found doesn’t work for me), i kindly ask the blogosphere if they can decode it for me.

i’m just wondering what adidas is writing in my gloves.

additional images (and an extreme closeup) can be found on my flickr-page tagged accordingly.

[1] which has been adding a qr-code to his blog-posts since some months…

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picture of the week 44

this weekend we had the berner schwimmtage, a two-day swimming event, including the sprintnight, which was absolutely fabulous (see some more pictures here or here). chantal cavin [1] swam a new world record for disabled swimmers, a lot of swimmers swam new meeting records and even more swam new personal records [2].

besides coaching my team i also found time to shoot a quick and dirty panorama of the indoor pool hirschengraben. it’s a shot i stitched from 12 images i took freehand on the gallery of the pool, stitched with hugin and converted to a qtvr using makecubic. so, if you click on the thumbnail below you should get a 1.8mb big .mov-file in which you can zoom and pan around [3]. if you prefer a flat image, then you should step over to flickr and look at the panorama as a .jpg.

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[1] read a report of our blind swimmer here (90kb .pdf) or in the latest coop zeitung

[2] like me: i pushed my record on 100m crawl down to 1:04.44 (not too shabby for one training a week…)

[3] shift and crtl are your friends on a mac.

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swiss blog awards

there’s been cooking something for quite a long time, now everything seems to be going along really fine.

jan, nick, matthias and urs [1] fixed a date and set up a website/blog for it, so more infos will come along soon i guess!

if you’d like to add it to your calendar, then you can go here, i put it on upcoming.org.

[via chregu and matthias]

[1] they even set up a postcheque-konto, so nothing can go wrong :-) (if you can do that, then you can do everything!)

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comment feed

chregu recently mentioned that he wants a feed for every blog (actually for every blog software…)

so i’ve modified my already present comment-feed, which i’ve been using to manage my comments (e.g archive nicely, edit, despam…) into a publicly available format, for all of you to consume.

the comment feed can be accessed via this file: comments.xml.

the full code is as follows [1]:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”<$MTPublishCharset$>”?>

<rss version=”2.0″

xmlns:dc=”http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/”

xmlns:sy=”http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/”

xmlns:admin=”http://webns.net/mvcb/”

xmlns:rdf=”http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#”>

<channel>

<title><$MTBlogName remove_html=”1″ encode_xml=”1″$> Comments</title>

<link><$MTBlogURL$></link>

<description>Comments</description>

<dc:language>en-us</dc:language>

<dc:creator><MTEntries lastn=”1″><$MTEntryAuthorEmail$></MTEntries></dc:creator>

<dc:date><MTEntries lastn=”1″><$MTEntryDate format=”%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S”$><$MTBlogTimezone$></MTEntries></dc:date>

<admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource=”http://www.movabletype.org/?v=<$MTVersion$>” />

<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>

<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>

<sy:updateBase>2000-01-01T12:00+00:00</sy:updateBase>

<MTComments lastn=”15″ sort_order=”descend”><MTCommentEntry>

<item>

<title><$MTCommentAuthor encode_xml=”1″$> on ‘<$MTEntryTitle encode_xml=”1″$>'</title>

<link><$MTEntryLink encode_xml=”1″$></link>

<description>

<![CDATA[

<$MTCommentAuthor$> @ <$MTCommentDate format=”%d. %B %Y, %H:%M”$>]]><br />

(<a href=”mailto:<$MTCommentEmail$>”>mail</a>, <a href=”<$MTCommentURL$>”>URL</a>)

<br />

—<br />

<$MTCommentBody encode_xml=”1″$>

</description>

</item>

</MTCommentEntry></MTComments>

</channel>

</rss>

so, if you want to add a comment feed to your MT installation, proceed like this. go to your mt.cgi (the main admin), add a new template, give it the name you want (comments.xml works nicely) and paste the code above into the Template Body field.

[1]: didn’t code it myself, but forgot where i’ve gotten it, it’s half a century ago (or so…)

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ticket zu verschenken

ich hab ein ticket für die 10 years zimtstern-party für morgen samstag abend (5.11.2005) in der maag event hall in zürich gewonnen. leider kann ich nicht gehen (wenn ich nach den schwimmtagen noch zeit habe, geh ich höchstens noch in die reitschule).

wer es will, soll mir bis heute abend ein mail schreiben (habi ät gna punkt ch) und kriegt das ticket (am einfachsten wär halt schon, wenn du in bern wohnst…)

ich in der zeitung

hey, ich bin in der zeitung! this born hat in seiner kolumne weblog über das flickr-treffen geschrieben, und – obwohl wir uns am samstag verpasst haben – mich erwähnt [1]. wer den artikel in der bz nicht gesehen hat, kann das hier nachholen.

ich sollte meine local-feeds häufiger lesen, dann hätten wir gestern abend noch ein bisschen mehr gesprächsstoff gehabt…

english: i’m in the newspaper: this born writes a bi-weekly column in the local newspaper. he mentioned me, i’m flattered…

[1] in einem minim anderen zusammenhang, aber immerhin….

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