Pythoneer

It’s really cool. No it’s freezing cold! This morning on the radio they said that the warmest city in Bavaria was Würzburg with -10°C (10 degrees Celcius below zero!).

A happy new year and all the best for you reading here.
Welcome back this year, the few who stay tuned. After spending christmas and new years eve in Berlin and Valencia I am back in Munich, finally. Family matters settled :-).
I have just come back from having a beer with Stefan from Frischlink (quite a cool name I think). We had planned to generate ideas and to come up with something cool. We refreshed one of my older ideas and polished it up a bit, so this year there will be something coming at you, just be careful and watch!
Currently my time horizont is pretty relaxed. In February we will go and have a look at Dubai and after that I want to know for sure what this year shall bring for me. Currently the idea we just have woke up will probably take up most of my time and hopefully within three months see the light of earth. Besides that I am happy to take on jobs as a freelancer, as I have been doing about the last five years. So if there is someone interested in my skills don’t hesitate to contact me and order my help. Lately I got to dive deeply into Python, before that I have been spending all of my time consulting and implementing solutions all around PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and all that goes with it.
Again a happy new year and stay tuned…

After reading about the Nixie watch on engadget.com I recalled that my christmas present will be much cooler! It will be even more geeky! The Nixie watch seems very clumsy and easily breakable and not that fashioned. I think retro is not yet in again.

What makes a gadget really geeky and what will really make the chics hang on your every word is something that looks familiar and needs explanation! And the A-24II is this kind of thing! It looks stylish and like a watch. But once you look at the display you think it is something else. Mmmmh, may be a game? Just come up to me chics, I will tell you :-).

I am pretty sure the new Nokia N80 will be my next cell phone. My first Nokia. It should have Python on it since it is a Series 60. That finally makes the things possible that I want, a portable input device that temporarily stores and provides the data that I actually have on my computer.

I see the mobile phone only as a temporary storage device, it just has no proper means for inputting and providing all kinds of data, as a real computer has. It just has no properly useable keyboard, the display is way too small. I really miss my old Psion, that was a great device! If they would release a new version of it I would buy it right away, the keyboard was just perfect and it all fit in my pocket.

Now with Python on board of the N80 it will be easy to realize the input device for my private finance software, that currently lacks that it still requires my brain for temporary storage and my brain’s software has quite some memory leaks.

Finally I will hopefully start to synchronize my calendar, address book, etc. with my mobile phone. Currently I am doing that manually. Actuall just because I had tried it one, synching my still-in-use-T60 with my Mac, but that really failed big time. It worked but it didn’t do it as I wanted. I gave up very quickly. I hope Nokia will do a better job here.

Christian Hackert was writing me an e-mail about an old article I had once written for the PHP magazin. From my todays point of view, I am not very proud of the article, but the world keeps turning. Thanks Charo.
I actually just wanted to say that I really love the design this guy has created for his website. Very simple and very clear, especially that the image on top changes depending on the page you are on. Ok, it doesn’t need to change on every click, which it doesn’t, but when you are changing the category/topic. I also like the embedded navigation up there, so the space is not only wasted. And those very clean and simple pictures. Great. I might copy that

Update 6-Nov 2005:
This page of the Firefox icon creator looks very neat and alike too. Especially the navigation up there with the items inside and the changing image, I start to like that more and more. But somehow not as clean and easy to follow, too many rounded corners, difficult to stay focused IMHO. A bit to playful.

A while ago, I was confronted with the question if chatting really disturbes while working. I am in multiple chats all day long and I have to say I really appreciate the quick way of getting answers (e.g. in #python on irc.efnet.org) and learning stuff by reading, discussing and also answering questions. In the following I try to summarize what I think makes the chat worth being a tool a programmer needs in his toolbox. Of course we are talking about work-related chats here.
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Synergy is just awesome, I am using it already for quite a while, thanks to powerbook.blogger.
Now that I have to use a Windows laptop besides my Powerbook I really appreciate the tool. The only thing is that sometimes when the mouse had set the focus onto the other computer and I start typing nothing happens, until I move the mouse back … but I will figure that out too.

From cain.supersized.org I moved home. I just missed a couple of features for my blog and I just wanted to move my blog home one day … Now (someday) I can design it the way I want, I simply want to be able to have all the power over it.