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Tweakfest takes places in “Museum fur Gestaltung” in Zurich. Interestingly enough, at a conference that is about “visions of the digital lifestyle”, there is neither electricity for the audience, nor wireless LAN. So there won’t be a backchannel, collaborative note-taking, heckling, background checking of the speakers or all the other fun stuff that would be possible. Could it be, that “reality of modern conferences” haven’t arrived in Zurich yet? **Update: **Just before I left, there was a WLAN available. Unfortunately, it seemed that it did not allow connections to the internet. Maybe tomorrow will be better ...

Today, Tweakfest starts in Zurich. It’s a conference about “visions of digital lifestyle”. The program reads like a mixture of really boring (“Die Kreativwirtschaft als strategischer Erfolgsfaktor”) to the political interesting (“Totale Überwachung: im Namen der Sicherheit?” - featuring Matthias Leisi on the panel ) to the one I’m looking forward to (“From Science Fiction to Science Facts” by Bruce Sterling ) and then a lot of other presentations that might or might not be of interest ( the new digital home, future of the mobile phone, dancing robots, etc, etc) ...

Laurent Haug of ballpark.ch is organizing a conference called Lift06 in Genva in the beginning of February. The roster of speakers looks promising, the price (CHF 295) looks right and Geneva is only a train ride away. I think I’ll be there (Laurent still needs a Ruby on Rails demo) Technorati Tags: conference, lift06, refactoring, geneva, ballpark

After a couple of weeks of having FolderShare installed on a variety of Windows and Macintosh Computers, I decided to upgrade to the paid, professional version of their service. Foldershare allows you to keep multiple folders in sync across multiple computers. It works beautifully and flawless. Today I wanted to put it on my Mac Mini which I got back from repairs (it’s harddisk had died) to sync back files from my Mac Laptop. ...

Neulich im Postausgang: Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren ich habe mir die Un-CD “thelonius monk quartet with john coltrane at carnegie hall” gekauft. Diese ist zwar per “copy contol” geschutzt, aber laut Hulle kompatibel zu Mac OSX. Nachdem ich die Un-CD in mein Apple 15" Powerbook eingelegt habe, ist die Un-CD nicht erkannt worden. Es ist mir auch nicht moglich die Un-CD wieder auszuwerfen. (Mac muss dazu neu gestartet werden) ...

Stupid! I needed a 200 MB database file to do some work with it. I had been doing design changes to the database which were deployed to the productive system late in the evening. Then the last changes were done later in the evening by the content owner. The system admin who did the deployment staied so long and then copied the file to his USB stick. We had agreed to meet this morning at 06:55 in Zurich main-station for the transfer of the data. ...