does someone of my fellow blog readers know a good panorama stitching software for OS X?
i’m currently using LM Stitch, which is a software which just keeps working in demo mode (as opposed to the Stitcher EZ from Realviz which refuses to work after 30 days).
But the problem with LM Stitch is that the UI is really awkward and not very useable.
Any suggestions are more than welcome. I would really like to use the Pano-Tools, but Adobe Photoshop is just too much for my wallet!

The image below is just a 3 minutes hack of a little panorama from images i made this past weekend in silvaplana (b/w because of the demo-version):

yesterday it was so hot here in switzerland, that the swiss railways had to close some tracks because the tracks were bent through the heat!
(here’s the link to the follow-up article)

• silvaplana was so great, that bruni bought a kite and a board from a guy that was up there.
• todays fun link is sponsored by the friends of folk music. (i saw a sticker with that link on the back of some guys motorcycle today…)
• azure works only a little bit. i managed to post while on the train, but not while on the camping in silvaplana and on the beach at the lake. so still some work to do to get a 1.0 version…

This is the test. I’m in the train to the mountains and blogging away on my mobile.
So azure seems to work :-)

i’m gonna be in silvaplana at the lake this weekend.

Bruno () is there on the camping since monday and i’m going there later this afternoon.
We’re gonna try out that fancy thing called kite surfing (or kite sailing).

ETA back in Bern is on Monday so expect no news until then (unless i manage to get Azure working on my mobile…)

i want this!

I’m gonna go and see Akua from “Karls Kühne Gassenschau” with Nina.

PS: hopefully she will not read my blog until we meet (in 40 minutes or so), because it’s a surprise for her (for our third anniversary – which was some days ago, but couldn’t be celebrated properly, ’cause she had a lot of exams)

Update: The show was really cool! The Stunts the Girls and Guys of Karls Kühne Gassenschau pull off are amazing.
If you’ve got the chance to go and see them, do it! They just prolonged until the end of september and there are still some tickets available on their website.

i think most of these () hits are from myself….

while i had a break today at work (it’s summer holidays here, so a lot of our clients do not work thus we sometimes get a break…) a guy came chatting me up.
this bloke started to talk about crop-cirlces and pyramid-energy (where razorblades get sharp again when put under a small pyramid) and stuff like that. then he gave me this piece of paper with lots of links on it. one of these links was energy4u (sorry, only in german).

i just had to post this link as the fun link of today, go check it out!
(they also have a really funky disclaimer where they write that their products can also have NO effect, how pathetic…)

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…

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?

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).

some new pictures are online. those from Anna’s “Birthday”-Party in the Eichholz.
check them out here:

below is one picture from those: me making an unbelievable silly face:

I’m now officially a superstar!

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?

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 equipment (perhaps to make some money for his upcoming trip to the remote parts of our world :-)

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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