this is just too cool!

When i get an SMS on my mobile phone while it’s paired over bluetooth to my trusty little ibook i get a window like this:

this is just too frigging nifty!
(for those without german…..
BOAH: this is even cooler!
while i was typing this entry, Gäbu Palacios (on the left, getting the score while I play Gäbu-Pong) called me, and voilà I get this window!

Does any PC offer the same functionality (Call me a proselyted Switcher)
OK, here’s the translation for those of you non-german-readers:

  • The first window is titled “incoming SMS” and the buttons offer the ability to save the SMS as a note, answer or aknowledge with ok (duh!)
  • The second window is titled “incoming call and says that the phone rang four times. I’m offered to answer via SMS, to direct Gäbu to my voice mail or to get the call.

PS: Thank God i know the Keyboard-Shortcuts for a Screenshot by heart (Apple+Shift+3 for the whole screen and Apple+Shift+4 for a selection) :-)

and i almost forgot: The incoming call does also mute my ibook and unmute it when i hang up…

good thinking bad man!

The US Code Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 8 (g) says:

The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.

But George W. Bush — who’s been pushing through laws that would institute stiff penalties for defacing the flag — has been doing that himself… At a recent speech to defense contractors (his biggest contributors), he was handing out signed American flags (link to the AP photo):

Yeah, well, what else is there to say?

React on SPAM!

The Sonntagszeitung (the sunday paper here in Switzerland) of today had a funny article on the SPAM i get quite a lot lately…

You might know it, it’s one of these mails where it goes along those lines:

[snip]
I am Mr. Jeff Obed, Provincial Manager DBSA Bank of South Africa,
Capetown, Branch.
I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for
you.
On June 6, 1999, a foreign mining consultant/contractor with the South
Africa Mining Corporation, Mr. Richard Moss made a numbered time (Fixed)
Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$12,500,000.00 (Twelve million,
Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a
routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.

[/snip]

(The article is in german, for those of you with a good sense of humor there’s an english translation by babelfish here).

Canyoning

Today i went Canyoning into the Canyon called “chli Schlieren” with Nina, Jacky, Claudsche, Peschi and Sigi!
It was unbelievable cool. It’s so nice to be in the river, slide and jump down the rocks into pools and stuff like that.

Mänu and Lüku were both great guides (i know both of them from school).

If you’re in switzerland, and have nothing else to do, go to Interlaken and do that!

The picture here shows the view from the base of Outdoor Interlaken to the Jungrau Region.

Comment for some other Blog-readers (B. and Miklos): We drove from Interlaken over the Brünig and passed through Lungern, how funky is that?

some other blogs near my epicentre

ok, i thought it’s about time to jump the bandwagon and list some friends with a blog:

  • Bärni, an old classmate and also a mate at university (Which seems farther away from day to day…). He “seduced” me to install a movable type blog here on habi.gna.ch (actually he installed it for me:-)
    Bärni is the CTO of [search.ch] and has an unbelievable insight into the inner workings of any computer and programming language
  • Miklos, also an old classmate of mine, and a good friend through all those long DVD-Nights :-)
    He is the chief of the steadicenter and one of the web-masters of golfplayer.ch. The other one has no blog (yet).
  • Bärnis Brother Arni just started a blog too.
    He’s a very good drummer, but does actually sell his whole equipement (perhaps to make some money for his upcoming trip to the remote parts of our world :-)

I.AM

ok.
hello.
erm. this entry is here to get you to know me a bit better (if you already don’t, what you probably do…)

the image on the left shows me with glasses, which i really don’t wear that often, and the one on the right shows me having fun with my mobile, the sonyericsson T610 (which is by the way the first mobile i own).
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filewile.com

I went to see filewile.com tonight in the city.
they rocked the Baerenplatz :-)
go to their site and download some music and put a tip in the jar..

and see some more pictures in /pics

update: by the way, they were filmed by a crew of the swiss television. the clip/show/info will be aired tomorrow night in schweiz aktuell.

update2: it was not aired tonight, but will be soon, if you’re interested, then go and see on the schweiz-aktuell site. they provide all the shows in real-player-format.

some test

i am testing a program to update my blog from my mac without logging into movable type on my server.

it’s called kung-log and is availiable on versiontracker

and it has a funky feature: it will post what you listen to at the moment…
i’am listening to: En-Sof from the album “Lingo” by Almamegretta