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This long weekend comes to an end. I haven’t done a whole lot, but enjoyed lots of laughter with my kids and wife. Today we even went for a 29km bike ride - cold, but at least no snow. No other intelligent communications from me today I am sorry to say.

My kids love their iPhones (My daughter even bought herself an iPhone 5 for x-mas). While I (and my wife) do have some reservations about the quite high usage those phones get, it is none the less fascinating to see, how todays kids are using technology. Instead of them learning from me, I start to learn from them. I still have some geek cred with them, because as a long time online user, I know most of the acronyms they use. ...

Just a quick note of outrage. I was planning to send EUR 150 to Germany for some guitar gear. As this wasn’t a commercial transaction, I choose to foot the bill in terms of commissions. PayPal wanted to take EUR 7.70 (or a bit over 5%) for this transfer. 5% - that is outrageously expensive… Time for someone to step up to the plate and provide an alternative… Oh - wait…

The weather being what it is, what better to do, than to rent a bunch of movies from the friendly neighborhood video rental (highly recommend if you are in Zurich, we have been customers for around 15 years and Lillian who runs Filmriss is just a wonderful nice person, with a huge film knowledge and a selection of movies that strays from main stream). Today we watched To Rome with Love, by Woody Allen. ...

This post has to do with rabbits (in a way) and is therefore the perfect start to a long easter weekend… I have been investigating message queues in quite a bit detail lately. We have switched away from Resque in Mobino a couple of months ago (mostly to problems with the resque processes loosing their connection to the Redis backend) and switched to a simple work queue implementation with RabbitMQ. This has been working rock solid for the last couple of months and we are very happy with that choice). ...

Thanks to my presentation on BitCoin, I have been invited by one of the German Pirate parties to mumble about my take on BitCoins in one of the following weeks. This is going to be interesting and I will keep you posted.