today i was again at a photo-shooting. a customer of the velokurier was looking for a model which was willing to show his ass to two old ladies (really!)
the idea is that the ewb, the energy and water supplier of bern is providing everyone with energy here in bern (their slogan is “we pass on our energy”). the setup was like this: a messenger fills his water-bottle at one of the fountains in bern. two elderly ladies pass and watch his nice butt. since we all have nice butts they were looking for one of us who had time tonight.
since the ad-agency preferred me to urs and renzo (urs has the wrong length of hair and they didn’t see renzos butt or the would have chosen him :-) i will be on that ad which comes out sometimes in november/december this year. it was quite annoying to stand there in full autumn-gear while the sun is shining down pretty strong. and both ladies were only marginally funny while they tried to make jokes about my butt so they would loosen up a bit for the pictures. we’ll see how the poster will turn out.

but with the money i got from that shooting and the last one i’ll finally be able to replace my broken chair! (the perfect birthday gift from me to myself…)

i can hardly remember the last time i blogged about new software i installed on my trusty ibook. now newsfire 0.2 (!) gets the honor to be featured here.
since i discovered the beauty and simpleness of reading most of the web via rss i’ve been using netnewswire lite for all my rss-needs.
(btw: xeni jardin (of boingboing-fame) explains the whole rss-thing it nicely in her article for WIRED 12.04).

since two of my fafourite mac-blogs (fscklog and powerbook-blogger) seem to like it, i thought i’d give it a go and installed that impressive piece of software. i can hardly believe that the version number is 0.2!

the pure simplicity got me really hooked, all you need to read all your feeds is the spacebar and the enter key. all your feeds are organized in the left column and the post you’re reading is in the right frame. no third pane needed. (which only now strikes me as completely useless anyway :-) as you read a post you press enter to visit the post on the web or press the spacebar to read the next unread feed. simple and easy.
and there’s even some ichatesque eye-candy included, which means you should definitely give it a go!

ps: oh, and newsfire’s (nifty) icon doesn’t sport an “unread message” count as netnewswire’s onde does, which means some more productive time on my hands, because i won’t notice if there’s only one of all the feeds on my list which is updated and i have to go and check to see if it’s worth reading that post. give it a go! it’s well worth it.

(and sorry, only and purely availiable on os x)

look what mail i just got:

Would you like to donate your picture of the dugong
https://habi.gna.ch/blog/images/Image009_8.jpg to a good cause?

Dugong photos are very hard to find, and yours is truly wonderful.

We all love to make it available to people for a desktop. Here are some desktops donated by other photographers.
http://www.earthjustice.org/supporter_center/gallery.html

This would help support our work to prevent the US govt from building an airbase on top of a dugong feeding ground in Japan.

Here is more about that lawsuit against the US Department of Defense.
http://www.earthjustice.org/urgent/display.html?ID=154

Look forward to hearing from you. If you are willing, we would need the largest pixel version you have. Send to me.

Tell us how to credit the photo.

Thanks,

Brian Smith
Western/International Press Secretary
Earthjustice
426 17th Street 6th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612-2820
PHONE: 510.550.6714
FAX: 510.550.6740
donotspambrianhemustbeaveryniceguy at earthjustice.org (edited by me :-)
www.earthjustice.org

that’s quite nice. i think i’ll hand them over the three pics i took of the dugong.
if brian is a really nice guy he can send me something from my amazon wishlist or just say thank you, and credit my work correctly. everything here is released under a creative commons license anyway (creative commons is by the way one of the winners of a golden nica at the ars eletronica in linz which just finished yesterday or so…).
if you want to read some more about the AEC and get a good insight of the things that happened there, then piece has some good coverage on on what he did there.

one of the sponsors of the grand raid christalp is the fotolabo club which had lots a bunch of photographers along the track.
so now you’re able to see pictures of all the riders on the online-album-page. here are the ones they took of me and renzo:

if you haven’t seen it jet, heres a very funny flash animation (warning: 3.7mb) from the jibjab-brothers that features dubja bush and purple heart kerry telling you some more about their land.

[via someones email]

after i’ve been fooling around with an unofficial beta-version today the official beta version of skype was released for os x. (and could not call anybody, because only bruni had it installed and he has troubles with his microphone…)
skype is an internet-telephony software from the same people that brought you kazaa, the p2p filesharing software (and skype works in pretty much the same way, also through some p2p-trickery).

so if you want to give me a call and listen to my voice, you can add “david.haberthuer” to your skype and test it out.
i tried it out with b. and i must say that it works very much like intended and is absolutely hassle-free.

[via e.g. macminute]

the past weekend i spent in italy. a good friend of mine had his wedding in the hometown of his girlfriend, now wife. i met kim seven (!) years ago, when we both made a kind of student exchange in australia and we both managed to keep in touch through all these years, amazing!
the wedding was the most spectacular wedding i’ve ever attended (it was my third ever by the way :-) and was held in the beautiful town of villasanta, near monza (the town famous for their formula1-race-track).

the first row of pictures show kim and samantha kissing during the huge diner they held, the newly-wed just before the firework and the firework that was held for them. the second row shows a panorama i made. it features the church of villasanta, where the ceremony was held (512kb .mov file)

kim, if you ever read this, i wish you and samantha all the luck in the world and would like to thank you very much for inviting me to your wedding it was “marvellous, splendid and amazing!!!” (little inside-joke)

if my new model-career is not gonna pay off i can still start working in the oil-business:

this is at least what the berufskompass suggested after i (quickly) answered 75 questions…

(if you wonder, “singer” and “inspizient” are both listed last. which is kinda weird, because i also work in a theater (but only at the bar…)

[via berner gazette] where some people also note that the job-compass might not be worth that much…

phil torrone has a much cooler belt buckle than i have.

the grand-raid was really exhausting. renzo and me underestimated how hard it can get to ride 76 km on a tandem.
the picture below shows the profile of the race (which we finished as tenth of eleven tandems). we started from Heremence and drove to Grimentz.

update: datasport has put the results of the grand-raid online. click here to see how renzo and me finished (look for CTan in the lower part of the page). 10 hours and 12 minutes and a mean velocity of 7.5 km/h, how pathetic :-)

from the 6th september on you might be able to see pictures of our effort online at the fotolaboclub. i have no idea how it’s gonna work. in any case, we’ve been riding with the number 7005, this might help to search for pictures…

tomorrow renzo and me have a new project with his tandem: we’re gonna ride the grand raid christalp (76km mostly up and down :-).
i’ll keep you updated on how we manage to compete with the other ten teams.
and now i think i’ll just go to bed, cause we got to catch an early train tomorrow morning. maybe i can tell you something about the (surprisingly good) movie i just saw later on.
for now i just wish you a good night.

i’m back home, it was wonderful.
more on that later on.
now i start have to sift through all the mail i got. (i think about 800 mails are actually spam, mostly comment spam on this blog)

rachel from the velokurier bern has won the european messenger championships in poland.
yesterday she returned and then was superbusy instantly, because she had to give quite some interviews.
today she was in some newspapers:
– 20Minuten, complete with link to the suicmc04
– Bund
– BZ
and on friday there will be coming a telebärn-crew to make an interview with her, so she’ll be busy all week long.

congratulations rachel!