yesterday i was in rodersdorf, playing ddc with jochen.
jochen stayed over at a friend, so i was on my own in the train to basel and in the tram to bättwil/flüeh.
in the train i was listening to some music on my ipod, when a guy in the opposite compartment scrolls away on the wheel of his ipod trying to find a good tune. then when i walk out towards the tramway i see a girl with the revealing white headphones on the escalator. and to end that silly little story, the girl enters the tramway Nr 10, which i also needed to take and sits in front of me, so i was constantly surrounded by ipods on my journey :-)
the ipod is actually so hip, that it starts to show up in music videos, watch 50 cent’s p.i.m.p-video over at mtv to see 30s seconds of ipod, 50 cent and ladies with white clothes (not very much clothes…).
one point i’d like to make is that altough this little piece of engineering and design has a quite high geek-factor i see more and more girls walking around sporting their personal digital player. so albeit the high geekness it has, it’s also a very good music player for the masses (which is very easy to use, as opposed to other mp3-players i’ve seen bevore. the ipod’s UI is so clever even my mother could use it :-)

ps: if you want to see some action-shots of how ddc looks like, then you find some photos on my pic-page or on damons excellent ddc-page.

ps2: after jochen and me came second at that tournament, i’ll probably have a better ranking on the world ddc rankings than 245th soon :-)

pure envy!

i found the fun link of the week (while looking at the website of iguana tatau; for no apparent reason (yes, i’m thinking about a new one…) :-)
natalie has it in her link section: uglyfootballers.com.

and yes, the ugliest of all is there: Trifon Ivanov.
Some of my blog–readers might remember it, i had Trifons Pannini-pic from some worldcup on my pen-case during a long time in the high-school!

the pictures i made in Millau at the Swimming Championsship are online here.

PS1: my results in the pool can be found here (i’m david haberthuer by the way :-). The open-water results here (i’m not really happy with the time i swam in the lake (5.2 km in 1:43, but i had a major cramp in both legs which made me make a break for about five minutes, so it’s not too bad…)
PS2: this site here has a lot of infos on the bridge you can see in my pics..
PS3: because i visited one of the caves where they produce the roquefort-cheese i’m gonna cook that tomorrow.

when i came home from the european masters championship i started up my trusty ibook to read the mails which came in through the week.
and was quite puzzled :-) 135 mails in one week…

after skimming some of them i found out that the vast majority of them were virus-mails (the virus is sobig-f).
after follwing one of the hints on osxhints.com (btw. one of the best sites for hints regarding a truly beautiful os) i only had something like 25 real emails in my inbox, which was much more what i thought it would be :-)
i didn’t use the mail rule proposed in the hint, which seemed a bit harsh, but followed the last comment to that hint)

some pictures and other stuff from the championship are coming soon, now i need to go to bed, because i only slept for four hours the last night and have to teach some kids physics in about eight hours… looking forward to my bed!

Next week i will probably not update my blog at all, because i’ll be at the European Masters Championship in Millau, France.
I’m quite a keen swimmer and am going to swim some disciplines there (200m Crawl, 100m Crawl, 50m Butterfly and a 5km open water swimming in the Lake Pareloup)
So don’t be mad at me if i do not update at all next week, i have no idea if i’ll have internet access at the place we’re staying (maybe this is also a good thing for me so i’ll be able to read and sleep a lot :-)

cheerio!

check this out (read in partynews)

yesterday there was a flash mob here in bern (and i missed it, i thought it’s today, i confused the date…)
and today there was a little article in two newspapers (in the BZ and in 20min).
b. and me were thinking about “organising” a flash mob some weeks ago. he pointed out a link to me about the first flashmob in manhattan. (actually we talked about it on the 18th of june, because i was just looking up the conversation we had over ICQ…) and it seemed like a really funny thing to do. as berni points out, the flash mob in bern was not a full success, but i think this leaves room for more ideas…

how do you like my new dock?

a funny little app named skin a dock makes this possible. and it’s even donationware, so double the fun :-)
SaD needs the application enhancer from unsanity (go check them out, they have a bunch of cool OS X apps) to run, but it takes care of downloading it, so you only need to download skinadock, the rest is a walkthrough…

well this is amazing.
i thought – now that i’m a teacher – i need something practical to carry my files from home to school instead of burning them on a cd, emailing them to myself or carrying my ibook to school.
so i bought one of these USB-memorysticks with 128mb capacity.

today it was in the mail and i have to say i was truly surprised how small this thingy is (good there was a little hand-leash included :-)

it’s about the size of my pinkie .

PS: and don’t be surprised that it says USB 2.0 on it. it was the cheapest one on ricardo.ch and it works like a charm on my oldfashioned vanilla-flavoured USB-port :-)

the pictures from the alleycat last friday night are online:

the results were:

1 Michel – 41::2320
2 Ismu – 43:50
3 Urs – 48:36
4 Mischu – 48:38
5 Mättu – 49:24
5 Elia – 49:24
7 Päscu – 52:49
8 Rachel (1st woman) 56
8 Reto – 56:23
10 Michu – 1.08:58
11 Dewi – 1.11:15
11 Renzo 1.11:15
DNF Hämme & Simu

the manifest can be found here (38kb .pdf) and the list of all the posts can be found here (40kb .pdf)

i’m not shure if these guys make fun of themself, but their page is quite useful, if you’re looking for some little experiments for school (which is what i’m doing extensively at the moment :)

they also have a little part which is a bit more esoteric…

if you see some freaks on bikes driving around bern like mad on friday night, then you know it’s an alleycat¹ organised by bene and me :-)
so, if you see one of the messengers (sometimes after 10pm) then cheer and shout and watch your back for more reckless drivers!

¹ Alleycat: not on a closed course held race in a city, organized by bikemessengers. Usually with several checkpoints and not caring about traffic rules. As far as known, the first alleycats known as such took place in toronto, Canada.

…if you haven’t been at the lerbermatt-gymer :-) (probably all my blog-readers exept B., Miklos and Arni)
as you might have heard, i’m the substitution teacher of hans kammer (MC of Physics!) at that high school we all were.
and this morning was the teacher conference to the start of the semester. when i walk towards the building, guess who’s watching out of the window: Ändee Jöhl and Dieter Gilgen. They both look a bit puzzled and then. start. to. wave. their. hands. oh joy :-)
this is gonna be a fun semester.

i only say:
stuwi chäschüechli w
schul-hans-werker
seehung
nikkelti
sirup …
willi ä
hc-senn

aaaaah, those were the days…

for those of you which have no idea what i’m talking abuut: i’m a substitute teacher at the high-school where i went to school 7 years ago, and most of the teachers that i had lessos with are still there, which amounts to a serious funkyness…

8 years ago this week, Microsoft launched the war between the browsers (was there any other than netscape back then) with the release of the first version of the Internet Explorer.

guess who won the war?
but there are still some fighters left (at least on windows-platforms)

• mozilla, also with its firebird
• opera
• netscape (does this still count?)

on os x microsoft stopped the development of IE, because they had to admit, that apple has a more advanced product: safari (mostly because they knew how to tie it into the OS :-)

i’m really happy i stayed at home and didn’t go to the streetparade, and went for a swim instead :-)

i was actually looking for a pic of the pair wich was in the sonntagszeitung today (page 6 for those who have it at hand), but couldn’t find it online, so i finally made a pic of the newspaper with my digicam.

the guy with the adilettens is abso-f***ing-lutely funny!!!
(i had a little conversation with jacky in the eichholz today, that adiletten are a no-go out of showers, wardrobes and toilets…)

REMARK: I have absolutely nothing against people which get a kick out of cross-dressing or wearing fetish-wear or stuff like that. i just can’t get it that so many people have to completely freak out once a year and then live on with their 5 days a week, 9 to 5-lives – boring like it was and like it will ever be without that parade.
–> make your whole life fun, not only that one day!!!

the editorial of the august NZZ Folio is an absolutely wonderful piece of imagination.
i wish i had ideas like this…

the article is in german, so beware you english-readers.

i’ve just seen the new alien ant farm-video on viva: these days. (alien ant farm are known for a punked up version of michael jacksons smooth criminal).
it’s extremely cool. those guys hijacked the audience on the “Black Entertainment”-Awards, amazing all the people there (lil kim, 50 cent, snoop dogg, etc. etc.). they performed their new single on the rooftop of a house across the entrance to the BET. they managed to play their song three times before the police made it to the roof and arrested all of them.
the quality of the video is not extremely good, but i really like the anarchistic idea behind it, to not care about anything to make a funny video -> guerillia style :-)

some links
– coverage on MTV-News with Pictures
– read the story on gotrock.ch (in German). On gotrock.ch you can also stream the video…
– some more coverage on netscape.com