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

how nice!
now everyday i step out of my house, i see myself cheating :-)

The campaign for Swiss Meat which i modeled started again.
As Bärni pointed out, i’m a vegetarian (strict since about four years, loose one since longer time), but i look like a happy meat eater on these pictures.
So if you see one of these ads, then you know that it’s just an ad and not a true situation :-)

By the way, check out some other works by Franziska Frutiger, the photographer which made these pics, she sports some pretty nice pictures on her website (you might recognize some other shots from ads (swisscom and a campaign for the chemical industry in switzerland).

PS: I’m the one in the orange jumper…

room clearance status: successful

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Azure-test

1. one
2. two

Update:

this was a test i made with Bärni to see if Azure works.
Because we found out that none of the versions of Blogplanet worked….
Today B. also bought the T610 wich led to a one-hour fire-conversation about themes, bluetooth, midi-files, and mms-settings :-)
–> Ubergeeks unite!

if you’re able to speak chinese, check out this page, ’cause i would like to know what that guy is talking about.
i’d love to know the reason he links to my moblog (the last link in the second paragraph).

:-)

does someone of my fellow blog readers know a good panorama stitching software for OS X?
i’m currently using LM Stitch, which is a software which just keeps working in demo mode (as opposed to the Stitcher EZ from Realviz which refuses to work after 30 days).
But the problem with LM Stitch is that the UI is really awkward and not very useable.
Any suggestions are more than welcome. I would really like to use the Pano-Tools, but Adobe Photoshop is just too much for my wallet!

The image below is just a 3 minutes hack of a little panorama from images i made this past weekend in silvaplana (b/w because of the demo-version):

yesterday it was so hot here in switzerland, that the swiss railways had to close some tracks because the tracks were bent through the heat!
(here’s the link to the follow-up article)

• silvaplana was so great, that bruni bought a kite and a board from a guy that was up there.
• todays fun link is sponsored by the friends of folk music. (i saw a sticker with that link on the back of some guys motorcycle today…)
• azure works only a little bit. i managed to post while on the train, but not while on the camping in silvaplana and on the beach at the lake. so still some work to do to get a 1.0 version…

This is the test. I’m in the train to the mountains and blogging away on my mobile.
So azure seems to work :-)

i’m gonna be in silvaplana at the lake this weekend.

Bruno () is there on the camping since monday and i’m going there later this afternoon.
We’re gonna try out that fancy thing called kite surfing (or kite sailing).

ETA back in Bern is on Monday so expect no news until then (unless i manage to get Azure working on my mobile…)

i want this!

I’m gonna go and see Akua from “Karls Kühne Gassenschau” with Nina.

PS: hopefully she will not read my blog until we meet (in 40 minutes or so), because it’s a surprise for her (for our third anniversary – which was some days ago, but couldn’t be celebrated properly, ’cause she had a lot of exams)

Update: The show was really cool! The Stunts the Girls and Guys of Karls Kühne Gassenschau pull off are amazing.
If you’ve got the chance to go and see them, do it! They just prolonged until the end of september and there are still some tickets available on their website.

i think most of these () hits are from myself….

while i had a break today at work (it’s summer holidays here, so a lot of our clients do not work thus we sometimes get a break…) a guy came chatting me up.
this bloke started to talk about crop-cirlces and pyramid-energy (where razorblades get sharp again when put under a small pyramid) and stuff like that. then he gave me this piece of paper with lots of links on it. one of these links was energy4u (sorry, only in german).

i just had to post this link as the fun link of today, go check it out!
(they also have a really funky disclaimer where they write that their products can also have NO effect, how pathetic…)