this week the pictures i took underwater in sharm el sheik arrived. i will update the sharm-gallery with them soon.
the picture below is the best of the bunch and shows steffen, our guide during the early morning dive pointing out a huge anemone with a big bunch of clown-fishes on it.
in case you need some nice music to get into the x-mas mood you must listen to the border brass – tijuana christmas! just perfect to light some candles and sing along (the .mp3’s are tagged very bad, but if you burn them on a disc no-one will notice :-)
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it’s good that i’ve never been much of a gamer, or else i couldn’t resist in going and buying the psp after reading this review on engadget…
[via engadget]
update: whoa! the psp works very nice with the mac and wifi. must. resist. must. resist.
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the pic below shows splint hidden behind some flowers in the excellent restaurant we’ve been yesterday night.
the rest of the pictures of our christmasdiner can be found here.
want to listen to some cool tunes, including funk, cool hip-hop and other more than delicious tunes? then wefunkradio.com is perfect for you. like xeni noted, it’s a brillinat mixture of tunes and very hard to turn off, once you tuned in into it’s live-stream.
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my mother recently gave me schotts sammelsurium, a very funny book.
in case you want to be a brilliant conversation-partner at your next diner party i recommend that you get that book. it’s a overly extensive list of things one should know. things to know like: the thickness of ice needed to carry you, a car or a lorry, how to tie a sari, a list of european cities with metro, some shakespearean curses, the longest word in english and other stuff to know. it’s a fabulous reading and you should get is asap :-)
oh, and there is also an english version…
ps: ecto now has a nice amazon-search included (and can be yours for 30% less until christmas)
if you liked “my” address book plugin, then you might dig this script posted on osxhints.com.
it enables you do do a quick google-lookup of any person in your address book, with a single click on the phonenumber of the desired person. (and can easily be adapted for other search engines, which might in the end enable me to throw together a “look-up-person-on-tel.search.ch-and-merge-info-with-already-in-addressbook”-script. but that’s another story for another day.
good night.
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shannon has posted a small article on a very creative use of a bridge piercing. if you’re mildly interested in piercings and also like a wee bit of “industrial design” then you should give it a go and read it here.
[via shannon’s blog]
in case you think my pictures don’t deserve your time, then point you browser to casey kelbaughs slideshow (7.7mb .mov-file) of the pictures he took on a trip to brazil. those are really nice!
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the pictures from my vacation on sharm el sheik last week are now online in the pictures-section. those available are the ones i shot above sealevel, the ones below are old-fashioned analog ones, so they will take some time go come. (i cannot wait to see the ones i shot on the thistlegorm, this was the most amazing dive in my short diving career!)
filewile (dustbowl/777 and deejot) have released a new track called “camping_helsinki”.
go and grab it via their site.
i’m going to spend another week diving and will return on december 12th late in the evening.
don’t expect any update until then, but have a very nice week.
the first official screening of “SUICMC04 – The Movie” will be held on friday, the 17th december in the bar splendid palace from 7pm to 11pm or so. we will show the movie twice, once around 7.30pm and around 21.30pm.
you’re kindly invited to come, the event is open for all, you don’t have to be a messenger or have helped at the SUICMC04 to show up!
(click on the image to watch the trailer…)
since the upgrade of my MT-installation the integration of kungtunes an my blog was a bit flaky, i got an email whenever my itunes changed a song. this was just too much.
i’ve been looking for another solution to post my playlist on the web, but couldn’t find a good one, until i stumbled over this picture on the (excellent) command-shift-3-group on flickr. in the extensive list of programs mentioned was the itunes watcher. after a bit of googling i found the site and installed it (it’ s bit quirky, since it’s a script which needs to be configured and compiled).
so you can again spy on my musical taste, this time database-driven and quite nice. because the script works fully independent of any blog installation i made a new directory on my part of the server: /music
if you’d like to see what music i listen to, you can watch the 6 last played songs in the sidebar (click on the album to get more info) or just spy on the aforementioned subdirectory.
now i need to go an buy a new backpack.
update: i’ve just seen that the album covers are not displayed with firefox, but work perfectly with safari and IE on windows (my girlfriend uses it.) i will look into this and try to work it out…
if you’d like to see me in a suit, then you might want to check out my polyball foto set on flickr. but be warned, there are some really cheesy pictures in that set…
röme finished the movie of the suicmc04, and if you haven’t seen it already, you might want to take a look at the trailer (5.3mb .mpeg-file). we will try to organize a screening for all the helpers and other interested people, i’ll inform everybody when things become more precise.
i didn’t win that million this saturday, but it was a nice afternoon.
the picture below was taken at the shore of the lake of zurich, near the kongresshaus (oh, how would i love geotagged pictures, but that is a completely different story….).
just a short blurb to inform you: i didn’t win a million, it was someone else.
everything will stay as it is (or so…)
but at least i was on stage with mona vetsch, which is not far away from winning a million.
the client i use to post pretty much all the post here is now an official member of the pieces of software that i actually bought.
i’m more than happy with it and forked over those 18$ to adriaan to help him to go on with the development of this magnificent piece of software. i’ve been using kung-log for a long time, but ecto is just ways better. hence my blog also features a new button on the far bottom:
pretty much everybody is giving them away, but in case you still need an invitation to sign up with gmail (google’s 1gb-email service) i’ve got six five three no invitations to give away. they’re all gone, maybe i’ve got some more to give away soon, i’ll post it here…
