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bollocks! my design is b0rked.

i’ve updated my blog to MT 3.2 [1] and now i lost all my customizations to the sidebar and stuff like that [2]. good that i documented the odds and ends, so i might be able to rebuild it rather fast. in the moment you must bear with the rather terrible view on /blog when you visit in the browser. if you access my blog through the feed, you shouldn’t notice a thing.

oh, and this is also a good opportunity to add some more plugins and bits and pieces here and there. for example, i updated the root index.html a bit [3] and deleted some unnecessary directories that were just lying around.

[1] mostly to get rid of the ever-increasing comment spam. lately not even the now deceased MT-Blacklist was able to cope with it..,

[2] i shouldn’t have “refreshed” the templates without thinking twice.

[3] no matter how you resize your browser window, the text is centered in it. done with some css-tweakery

my upcoming.org events in the sidebar

Upcoming Eventsi’m starting to really dig those social web-apps.

one the last discoveries of mine is upcoming.org [1]. upcoming. org is a social event calendar driven by people like you and me. people can manage their events there and i have a neat way of showing some of my upcoming stuff i’m planning to attend or just got in my date book.

in addition to that, i can subscribe to events for a certain city i like (as in “bern“, “zürich“, “tashkent” or “trachselwald“). or subscribe to events of a certain person, no matter city they take place. the subscription is possible as an rss-feed or as as a ical-calendar-file. so if you like, you can add the calendars of your buddies to your ical and see what events they go to and take part or start to stalk them :-)

i’ve started to add some venues and events in bern and hope this starts to catch up in my ‘hood :-)

and i also thought this might be a nice way of “collecting” the people that want to come to certain meetings. let’s see if it starts to take off a bit more. if you add yourself to upcoming.org, send me a note and we can start to share our events…

which leads me to the title of this post: “… in the sidebar” [2]. since the events can be shown to any site with the upcoming.org badge, i’ve added my next 5 events to the sidebar. with some css-tinkering it also looks like it belongs in the sidebar. so if you want to see what i plan to to in the next few weeks, then you can now peek there (but i’m not gonna tell you stuff that i plan to visit the einstein exhibit with nina this weekend, so no stalking me…).

[1] which got bought by yahoo yesterday, which made every news-site post about that, which made me tinker around with it a bit more. so it’s actually a re-discovery, i can’t remember when i first encountered it. what i know is, that i encountered it much later than b. (just look at my or his user number…).

[2] time for all you rss-feed-readers to visit my site

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abstimmen! [update]

in den bergen ist freiheit lancierte einen bergfotowettbewerb (um irgendein monopol zu brechen [1]). jetzt kann bis nächsten samstag (8.10.) abgestimmt werden, damit dann ein foto das schönste ist.

gute freunde werden mein foto erkennen, es hatte die ehre, als “es guets 2005”-karte verschickt zu werden [2].

also stimmt ab, es hat viele schöne fotos drunter (hier alle in gross.). am schönsten find ich persönlich patricks eigenes bild (nummer 1, das mit der tollen reflektion.)

[1]: wieso genau hab ich ferienweise verpasst, ich bin noch nicht durch mit allen feeds lesen…

[2]: nummer 17 in patriks liste (übrigens: 0111000001100110 = pf)

[update]: ich löli hab doch tatsächlich vergessen den link zu linken, wo mensch abstimmen kann: hier

grand challenge 05

hopefully this year’s grand challenge will be more of a success than the last one.

at least there’s hope, because a contestant is driven by max os x (albeit there could be a kernel panic on track :-)

if you forgot how the last year’s edition ended, then this boingboing-post links to a video excerpt (31mb .wmv) of the satellite-feed from the 04-edition, so you can see for yourself how craptacularly bad most of the autonomous vehicles drove.

[via tuaw.com]

share your secrets – spy on others [update]

i really forgot how i found that page, but, postsecret.blogspot.com is really daunting and impressive. people are invited to “mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard”. i just added the feed to my newsreader, so i’m not gonna miss any secrets ever again….

ps: piece, you’re gonna like this secret :-)

ps: after reading most of them, i thought this secret is the creepiest of all of ’em.

update: probably [via boingboing]

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newsfire 0.2

newsfirei 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)

how nice!

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.

moblog frenzy!

urs gehrig reports that one of the mobile phone providers here in switzerland starts with an 5 bucks “all you can download”1 GPRS-plan. i’ve been looking forward for something like this for a long time (because everywhere else on the world there are a lot of flatrate GPRS-plans (just look at phil torrones moblog for instance, he uses it massively).
let’s hope that this step starts the competition between the three mobile providers here in switzerland: sunrise (my provider) and orange and swisscom, i’d love to fill my moblog with unnecessary crap the whole day long!

oh, and did you notice the “latest moblog” in the sidebar? this is new and untested, but a nice little hint from piece saved me messing around with mt-rssfeed and other plugins for moveable type. i’ll write a little (really little) documentation on this soon.

1 watch out! the “all you can download” plan only includes:

[…] ausschliesslich das GPRS-Verbindungsvolumen, welches bei Rahmen der Benutzung der mobilen Portale von Swisscom Mobile anfällt. […]

so no email-checking and “free” moblogging anytime, just a lot of downloads from the swisscom-portal (but i guess you could use your swisscom-portal-email for moblogging, so it’s no big deal…

[via circle.ch]

handy dandy!

after submitting a comment spam to the MT-Blacklist, i stopped by at jayallens blog, and found an interesting link.
bopuc proposes a way to view all the comments on your blog as a rss feed, spruced up with all the relevant links to despam and edit the comment and info of the commenter.
here are the directions:
1. go to your MT-HQ and make a new template.
call it something you remember and insert a filename for it (e.g. something.xml)
2. paste the code below into the text field.

>
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”<$MTPublishCharset$>”?>
<rss version=”2.0″
xmlns:dc=”http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/”
xmlns:sy=”http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/”
xmlns:admin=”http://webns.net/mvcb/”
xmlns:rdf=”http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#”>
<channel>
<title><$MTBlogName remove_html=”1″ encode_xml=”1″$> Comments</title>
<link><$MTBlogURL$></link>
<description>Comments</description>
<dc:language>en-us</dc:language>
<dc:creator><MTEntries lastn=”1″><$MTEntryAuthorEmail$></MTEntries></dc:creator>
<dc:date><MTEntries lastn=”1″><$MTEntryDate format=”%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S”$><$MTBlogTimezone$></MTEntries></dc:date>
<admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource=”http://www.movabletype.org/?v=<$MTVersion$>” />
<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
<sy:updateBase>2000-01-01T12:00+00:00</sy:updateBase>

<MTComments lastn=”15″ sort_order=”descend”><MTCommentEntry>
<item>
<title><$MTEntryTitle encode_xml=”1″$> (<$MTCommentAuthor encode_xml=”1″$>)</title>
<link><$MTEntryLink encode_xml=”1″$></link>
<description>
<![CDATA[
<a href=”http://www.your-domain.com/path/to/your/mt/mt-blacklist.cgi?__mode=despam&_type=comment&id=<$MTCommentID pad=”0″$>”>DESPAM</a><br />
<a href=”http://www.your-domain.com/path/to/your/mt/mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=entry&id=<MTEntryID>&blog_id=<MTBlogID>”>Edit entry</a><br />
<a href=”http://www.your-domain.com/path/to/your/mt/mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=comment&id=<MTCommentID>&blog_id=<MTBlogID>”>Edit comment</a><br />
<a href=”http://www.your-domain.com/path/to/your/mt/mt-blacklist.cgi?__mode=search&n=50&_type=comment&matchType=ip&ip=<$MTCommentIP$>&re-search=Search”><$MTCommentIP$></a><br />
————————————<br />
<a href=”mailto:<$MTCommentEmail$>” title=”<$MTCommentEmail$>”><$MTCommentAuthor$></a><br />
<a href=”<$MTCommentURL$>”><$MTCommentURL$></a><br />
————————————<br />]]>
<$MTCommentBody encode_xml=”1″$>
<![CDATA[————————————<br />
<$MTCommentDate format=”%a, %b %d, %Y %H:%M:%S”$>]]>
</description>
</item>
</MTCommentEntry></MTComments>
</channel>
</rss>

3. rebuild your blog
4. subscribe to the *.xml-file with your favorite rss-reader
5. if you don’t like the template, edit it to your likings
6. rub your hands and smile mischievously, as this adds even more fun to stopping comment spam

the fly

instead of reading way too much rss-feeds and stuff on tha intaweb i instead watched the fly (the 1986 version, not the original or the upcoming remake).
not that it was a really good movie, but as an example of eighties trick-technique and scientific imagination and computer-trickery it was really enjoyable.
in the end it means that i now only have about 47 unwatched dvds in my treasure chest in the living room.
and to finish a busy day i’ll now make an onion-packing to relieve my aching neck. i woke up with a really stiff neck last monday morning and it still doesn’t feel better so nina suggested this remedy… (she’s studying pharmaceutics, so actually onion-packings are not her thing, she’s a bit more on the chemical side :-)

engadget

after some guy left gizmodo he founded engadget to abandon himself to his gadget fetish.

the first entries on engadget (which is a really cool domain name, why do i never get those ideas :-) look really promising to fulfill my gadge-lust.
looks like i need to watch an rss-feed more!

ego-pumping

well, that’s nice, and does pump my ego a bit (not that i actually needed it :-)
– piecoblog blogrolls to me, so now i’m on the same pieceoblog-famous-scale as etoy and monorom (monorom is part of the kaywa-team where greg also pumps out some code, the one greg which knows b., small world innit?)

– for one time i was faster than boingboing :-) today they posted the link to minimal porn, and i did that quite some time ago.

btw: i’m not at all a fan of yb, as piece thinks :-) football is not my kind of thing.

see you next year!


ps: extralineophobia is a definition by pieceoplastic.
ps: i’ve already seen lotr3, but didn’t know when i scanned the pic above, so this one is already done :-)
ps: i told b. today that i’m gonna be offline until next year, and he asked my why.
i spend much too much time on the net, reading all the various pages, and rss-feeds that interest me, but for this holiday season i want to read books, want to watch one of my more than 50 unwatched dvd’s or just lie around without spending too much time sitting in front of that little 12” glooming rectangle.
that’s why
happy 04 everyone!

comics to your door (or rss-reader)

b. pointed out a nice service to me (i wonder where he gets all that stuff he forwards to me :-).
tapestry, a service by some guy that converts (some) online comics into rss-feed so you can suck them down with whatever you like.
i’ve still not jet decided if it’s a good thing if i add comics to my daily “keep up with all your rss-subscriptions”-task.
at least i have to spend less time watching ads and other stuff to load :-)

(tapestry should add nichtlustig, the daily perscheid and other comics, too, then i could stop getting comics by mail…)

panorama software

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):