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reboot 9.0 is happening on May 31st and June 1st this year. I attended both reboot 7.0 and reboot 8.0 and both have been wonderful experiences (reboot 7 being the proverbial “kick in the ass”). reboot 9.0 has a wonderful feature on it’s website: After registering, participants are asked to tag themselves with up to 10 keywords. Later they can relate to other people, talks, ideas that share those keywords. ...

Trotz aller Politikmudigkeit und “die Politiker kummern sich nicht ums Volk”…. Die Zeiten andern sich. Bundesrat Moritz Leuenberger blogt! Bravo Moritz, das gibt mir ein klein wenig mehr das Gefuhl, dass es Politiker gibt, die mich tatsachlich reprasentieren. Weiterhin viel Erfolg und gutes Gelingen! Technorati Tags: moritzleuenberger, politik, bundesrat

We use Joyent (affiliate link) for our mail (born out of Textdrive). Last weekend, the Joyfolks updated the application to a new version (and had quite a few problems in the process). One of the new features is Strongspace integration. Strongspace is a secure storage on the Net (accessible through SFTP, SCP and the like) that I have used for online backups for quite a while. At first I didn’t think much of the integration, but then it dawned on me, that I could sync our companies shared folder (which lives on a Samba server) to Joyent to get access to all our data when not in the office. Turns out, that this is really easy to do: ...

Just 9 people met this time for the SwissRug meeting, but we had some really interesting demos and discussions…. Florian Hanke started of by showing a little application he had thrown together to get his computer to speak to him (a childhood dream). It’s called “James” and based on the speech recognition and synthesis of Mac OS X, couple with the ruby cocoa bridge. In just a couple of lines of Ruby. He’s planning to build an extensible open source application for interacting with the Mac. In his demo, he was able to get a time table for the train through the SBB website. Impressive! ...

What happens if you play Beethovens 9th Symphony, strech it to last 24 hours (instead of the one hour it usually takes to perform it)? You get 9 Beet Stretch. Interesting music! Technorati Tags: music, beethoven

This day has been good to me: Morning: Afternoon: Technorati Tags: pentax, k10d