this blog is now without /blog

in the last few weeks movable type stressed the server more and more. after reading a bit into it, i found out, that wordpress is much fancier and much less resource-hungry as a blog platform.
and after trying out an install wordpress on habi.gna.ch, which really took less than five minutes, i was sold. now wordpress is powering habi.gna.ch and the blog is going to migrate to the root directory. everything else (pics, cv, my calendars and such) is still gonna stay where it is, and maybe be integrated into wordpress (which works quite well as a CMS) sometimes.
i’m still tinkering with the way of redirectong the old movable type archives to the imported posts, but this still has time.
if you’d like, you can change your feed addresses, but i will install a redirect-rule and leave everyting where it is.
after some time, when google and co. picked up everything, i’m gonna delete or inactivate /blog…

for your convenience [1] here are the new feed addresses:
for the posts: https://habi.gna.ch/feed/ and for the comments: https://habi.gna.ch/comments/feed/

[1] i also really like the URIs which are generated by wordpress. nice and clean (see the archives, for example…)

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About me

my real name is david haberthür, nearly everyone calls me habi
i worked as a messenger and will always be one in my heart, now i’m a ph.d.-student at the university of bern

i studied physics and got my masters degree.
i’m a geek.
i live in the breitenrain (bern, switzerland).

i have lots of email-addresses.
i like to type in only small letters.

suicmc06

Suicmc06yesterday 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!)

eighties flashback! [update]

Simonextremedo you remember simon (update: or senso, like neopren-sigi [1] points out)?

i remember playing it for hours. i actually remember it so good, that i couldn’t help but having a biiiiig smile after downloading simon extreme, the port of the game to os x. it even has alternate sound sets like heavy metal and hip-hop. and lickable eye-candy, like most software on osx…

[via freemacware]

[1] just for clarification: this is neopren-sigi, and this is schnee-sigi

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update: comments are down up and runnig again

oh, and just a quick note: the comments are down for some mysterious reason. i’m on it.

thanks sigi for noticing (oh, and what happened to your content?)

Tinyturingupdate: the comments-script nearly took down existenz.gna.ch (again), so someone chmodded it to 000. i’m nearly ready to switch to wordpress, if this goes on, i don’t want to stress the server that much [1]. for the moment i implemented the tinyturing-test from staggernation. so all commenters must now enter a random letter into the field when they want to post a comment, as seen in the image on the right.

i personally hate that kind of test (also captchas!), but it seems, it’s necessary to take some strain away from the server…

[1]: as far as i understood, wp is much easier on the resources it uses from the server…

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…)

diving in the verzasca

as mentioned before i’ve been diving in the verzasca this weekend. now i’m uploading all the images to flickr. you can see the images in this set here.

the two videos below are videos i shot and uploaded to youtube, the first one shows ändu blowing some bubbles. while shooting the second one i nearly peed in my divesuit ’cause the thing that swam through scared me quite a bit, but see for yourself…




the future of interfaces

jeff han [1] is a researcher at the new york university. he gave a talk at the ted-conference. if you’re a bit interested in the – possible – future of interface design, you have to watch the ~9 minute-long video below. it nearly blew my socks of, when i imagined how i could swipe through my 7000+ images on my hd like that. handling of big chunks of date seems to be really fun with that kind of interface.

and i also found mr. han quite entertaining. he has to talk really fast to get all the ideas and thoughts out quick enough, or his brain is gonna explode (pun intended…)

[1] bummer: while searching for his homepage, i found out, that i’ve already blogged him with with the same project… yeah well, talk about short attention span. but if you want, you can watch some other talks here.

[via democracys del.icio.us-video-feed]

picture of the week 34

as you might have seen in my flickr-stream, i’ve been to the robbie

williams-concert this week. for me it was the first time i’ve been

inside the wankdorf/stade de suisse, so i thought i’d make a

panorama-picture. it shows the arena just before the start of the orson-concert.

it still needs some work, but is not too bad for the moment.

this is also a test with flock…

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transform your face!

Habi.Normldid 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.Baby
habi as a baby		 Habi.Child
as a child		 Habi.Teenage
as a teenager		 Habi.Old
as an old man
Habi.Black
as a black man		 Habi.Eastasian
as an asian man		 Habi.Apeman
as an apeman		 Habi.Female
as a woman
Habi.Manga
manga character		 Habi.Boticelli
painted by
boticelli		 Habi.Modigliani
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:

nina

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

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