BLGMDYBRN recap

wiederum haben sich ein paar der berner alphageeks getroffen, und einer hat mit seinen wlan gadgets abgeräumt. leu, der preis für den gadgetigsten blogger geht an dich. mal schauen, was wir anderen bis zum nächsten mal auftreiben können.
dabei waren (wieder mal nur typen, und von mir aus gesehen nach rechts): rouge (darf der überhaupt noch an bloggertreffen kommen?), this (auf der suche nach einem tastentester), leu (der gadget-mann), christian (der sein monatliches blogpensum letzten sonntag abgehakt hat..), reto (dessen feed neu in meinem reader aufgenommen wird) und meine wenigkeit.

auf ein nächstes mal! wollen wir das wirklich am ersten tag im neuen jahr machen?

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BLGMNDYBRN

oh, and on monday it’s BLGMNDYBRN again. come around and meet us, we don’t bite (we will probably geek out over the newest idea of leu…)

adventskalender (picture of the week 48)

merci bella!

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füre sigi

hey sigi.
genau itz hockemer aui zäme im la bucolo und drum chunnt das foti hie grad outomatisch uf ds netz (ok, i gibes, zue, has scho geschter vorbereitet).
hoffentlech hesch fröid a dim gschänk und e gueti zit in georgie.
mir wärde di vermisse!

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some statistics

since i’ve been mentioned in the berner zeitung two weeks ago i thought it’s time to take a look at the access-statistics of my site once again [1].

since i let google get some data about my visitors, i also have a fancy-schmanzy widget, that shows me at a quick glance if something remarkable is going on (click on the left image for bigger view).
and i have to say that one could really see that quite some people came to my site in the days after the article came out [2]. one can see it much better on the following graph, when it’s not the naked numbers… on friday the 10. november the article came out and in the two following days i had around 2-3 times more people on my little website than normal (click right image for slightly bigger view). quite nice, innit?

[1] if you want to look for yourself, they’re available in un-pretty form here. (für den schwanzlängenvergleich….)
[2] btw: it’s now available as pdf here…

Technorati Tags: analytics, bz, google, nabaztag, statistics

citizen journalism [update]

vor längerer zeit wurde ich von this gefragt, ob ich mal beim tastentest mitmachen möcht.
nachdem die wii schon vergeben war und auf die schnelle (jemand ist abgesprungen) das sony gps-cs1 mit dem mac eine längere testphase bedingt hätte, hab ich für this gerne ein nabaztag getestet. drum die vielen hasen-fotos auf flickr…
morgen erscheint mein textli in der zeitung.
wer die BZ nicht abonniert hat oder eh lieber online liest, kann den artikel hier lesen: Habi und der Hase. wer die anderen gadget-tests von berner bloggern lesen will, findet unter espace.ch/tastentest alle bisher erschienen kolummnen [1].

oh, und falls sich wirklich neue leser hierhin bequemt haben: grüessech!

[1]: this, heisst das überhaupt so?

update: aufs thumbnail rechts klicken, dann kannst du die seite, wie sie in der bz erschienen ist, herunterladen (948kb .pdf)

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blgmdnbrn [update]

wieder einmal ein lustiger abend im domino:
dabei waren (in eintreffensreihenfolge):
– christian
– ich (mit zweitem vornamen christian :-)
– this
– christian
– matthias
– reto

gesprochen wurde: über hasen, demokratie, vereinsstatuten [1], bluewin-tv, altmodische projektoren, die viel bessere auflösung als dieses neumodische zeugs haben, die kommenden sbaw, wordpressMU, kaywa, panoramasoftware, themen- und katzenblogs, ueli maurer (mit offizieller svp-replik (hier, 3.5mb .mp3)) und noch viel mehr. hossa, fei chli copypaste!
willst du das nächste mal auch dabei sein? dann komm vorbei! übrigens, frauen dürfen auch vorbeischauen!

[1]: this, der beweis muss noch aufs netz!

update: hier noch der beweis von this, da es mit seinem kommentar (unten) nicht ganz geklappt hat…

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picture of the week 44

yesterday i went for a walk with nina, onto the tower of moron. only today i realized that it’s quite a funny name in english :-)
the tower was designed by mario botta, a famous swiss architect and built by swiss brickie-apprentices. the weather was absolutely stunning, so i managed to take some nice pictures. there’s one below or some more here.

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hmmmmm [update]

should i or should i not?

update: i did, and got myself 3000 superpoints while doing so…. (jan, this should answer your question…)

oh, and i’m gonna get the racletteöfeli on the right, so nina won’t be that upset :-)

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picture of the week 39

today we went for a little walk onto the niederhorn. the weather was absolutely lovely, so i was able to shoot some nice images including the one below. it was shot looking the other way than here, looking towards thun.

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suicmc06

yesterday the swiss cycle messenger championships 2006 were held in zürich, in the middle of the city.

it was really a blast! mostly because there were loads of spectators, the weather was super-nice, it was fun to meet other messengers in switzerland (i guess around 120 of ’em were there), but also, because i’m now officially the fourth-best messenger in switzerland[1], just a bit short after triple faiss and a wee bit faster than dom (both from lausanne).

my images can be found here, and maybe the tag suicmc06 is going to fill up with more pictures…

[1]: see screenshot on the left (and this might persuade me to still cycle a bit sometimes!)

die wette gilt! (europäischer aktionstag in die stadt – ohne mein auto)

am 22.9. ist wie mittlerweilen jedes jahr europäischer aktionstag “in die stadt – ohne mein auto”.

evi allemann und dori schaer wetten unter die-wette-gilt.ch, dass sie es schaffen, an diesem tag (um 17.30 auf dem waisenhausplatz) 2209 räder zu bewegen.

leider haben sich bis jetzt nur 210 räder gemeldet, das ist nicht mal 10% von dem was nötig ist, damit wir nächstes jahr an der velostation 4 elektrovelos ausleihen können.

es geht nicht so sehr um die elektrovelos, sondern mehr darum, ein zeichen gegen den zunehmenden vier-rad-ismus in unseren städten zu setzen.

ich bin dabei, du auch? (wär doch ‘ne gelegenheit, mal an einer velodemo teilzunehmen…)

picture of the week 35

after a busy evening on friday i went to the verzasca valley with the divecenter. i’m still overwhelmed with the beauty of the river from the inside. it felt like diving in a bottle of grappa. i’m gonna upload some of the images some other evening, now i need to catch up with some sleep…

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BLGMNDYBRN morgen abend

morgen abend findet mal wieder ein BLGMNDYBRN statt. je nach wetter in der milchbar oder im domino, ich werde das sein. so wie’s ausieht, einige andere auch. später mehr zu meiner woche….

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leu ertappt!

lieber herr leu.

gibt es das tshirt auch zu gewinnen, wenn man sie im dachstock der reitschule fotografiert, statt im sektor c?

gute nacht.

technorati tags: leu, paparazzi, reitschule

transform your face!

did you ever wonder how you’re gonna look in some years? or how you would look if born in another part of your world? or look when painted?

then you have to go and check out the free face transformer from the perception laboratory of the university of st. andrews! it’s really quite funny and made me laugh!

you just feed it an image of yourself, something like the image on the top left, and you get the results below (clicketyclick for bigger):

habi as a baby	as a child	as a teenager	as an old man
as a black man	as an asian man	as an apeman	as a woman
manga character	painted by boticelli	painted by modigliani

the quintessence: i need to cut my hair in general, i look quite creepy as a baby, quite valid as an asian man, extremely funny as an apeman and i need to shave if i want to impersonate a woman.

[via shannon]

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picture of the week 32

this weekend ninas brother got married to karin. they planned a big party in their garden, but unfortunately the weather was a bit more like november than august. so they had to last-minute-reschedule the whole wedding to a restaurant. in the end everything turned out really great, and the party ended quite early in the morning. a wedding to remember; congratulations karin and andi!

i didn’t take that many pictures, but if you want to look at them, you can do so here:

and i’d like to mention one of the images, mostly because nina looked really wonderful in her skirt. see for yourself here:

oh, and this shot is also quite nice (although i might be biased :-)

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mash sf

and here’s another one of those short blurbs (i’m a bit in a hurry):

if you don’t dare to look at road-rashes, cannot stand snotty music and have not the tiniest bit of love for messengers in your heart, then do NOT go and see the preview clips of the upcoming movie MASHSF.

but if you ride a fixie, are a messenger or something like that (tip to the hat to lausanne), the DO it!

oh, and btw, i had some problems playing the first clip with quicktime, but luckily, its mirrored over at youtube.

[via my referers]

technorati tags: fixedgear, mashsf, messenger

ventimiglia video

since i haven’t sifted through all the images i cannot upload all the images from italy, but i can show you a little video i shot over at youtube.

the video was shot in the hanbury gardens.

technorati tags: italy, peschi, ventimiglia, wolf

do not hotlink! [update]

i’ve had a quick look at my referers today.

they are mostly chock-full of referer-spam, so i don’t really look at them too often.

but today, i noticed quite a bit of hits from a page on hattrik.org. because some of my friends are quite fanactic hattrickers i thought someone linked to me and wanted to check back.

so i ended up on the site of the sc hooligen. at first i couldn’t see a link to me, but a quick glance at the sourcecode revealed that the manager of said team hotlinked to an image i shot at the gurtenfestival 2004. i know that as soon as you release your images on the web it’s extremely hard to track abuse of them [1], but hotlinking to a file is definitely a no-go!

so i thought, i’d do a little prank with the site, and replaced the image to something else.

i wonder how long it stays like that.

before on the left and after on the right.

it says in german: the manager of this team is a jerk, ’cause he steals pictures from other servers to pimp his profile.
[1] that’s why pretty much everything i release is under an attribution license (see also here :-) )

update: everything is fine now, keep walking on, no need to stare.

but i hoped that he’d at least write me an email :-) and because i couldn’t find one on the page that hosts the image now i’ll just leave it here…