just read florian jensen’s blog entry on “AOL adopting XMPP aka Jabber” — interesting! interesting for two reasons:
nice …
SyntaxHighlighter is quite a nice wordpress plugin that provides syntax highlighting for a range of programming languages (among them my favorites python & C#). the problem is, in its original unadulterated form it doesn’t play with my favorite markup plugin php markdown extra at all :-(
after quite a bit of …
yesterday i updated the wordpress plugins on our d2h.net and xyzzyxyzzy.net blogs. once done, both blogs would not work anymore…duh! the updated geopress plugin was borked :-( — or so it seemed…
…it turned out that i had added code to the earlier version of geopress to do pretty …
while looking at the 24C3 hack list of the currently ongoing 24C3 hack conf, i found this howto detailing the procedure to create fake fingerprints — all you need are:
while reading through the newsletter from ship of fools this morning — current chance of rapture is at 70.7% you’ll be, no doubt, interested to learn — i had to take a look at the 12 days of kitschmas section and came not only across the thongs of praise (available …
having mucked around a bit more with QR codes i found the excellent QR wordpress plugin from anthony wong — which works really well together with yeo’s wordpress lightbox plugin: if you click on the QR code for this entry link in the header of a blog entry you’ll …
one of the projects i’m currently working on is the VU*gate system that allows us to write scripts or applications to control an avatar in virtual worlds. VU*gate consists of a gateway daemon “talking” on one side the virtual world network protocol towards the virtual world grid …
swiss post is issuing a rather special stamp these days — no, not the einsiedeln stamp, though that is special as well (and i need to get a couple of those if just for the christmas post ;-), no, it’s a stamp with a beetagg on it: turns out that swiss …
i was just reading pranab’s interesting blog entry about “user generated content — how important is it?”, in which he looks at how user generated content is perceived by the corporate dudes & dudettes, and he remarks
Also at the same time, I feel that UGC is very important, and unlike …
walt mossberg has a very nice writeup of what’s wrong with the current mobile phone software model (though, it seems to be less of a lock-in here in old europe than in the “colonies” ;-):
Suppose you own a Dell computer, and you decide to replace it with a Sony …
just been looking at the definitive mobile phone project, the one to rule them all :-) and came across the following youtube clip:
not much to add…except:
a bit tired today after a longer than usual train ride from .ch to .de: took the scenic route from einsiedeln to st. gallen to munich to erlangen because of the strike of the german train drivers…
also, it seems, even though i thought i was sound asleep the last …
one of my partners in crime, sifu moraga, just twittered about an entry on tony walsh’s clickable culture blog relating the news that IBM & SecondLife are going to cooperate on the development of the “3D Internet”.
among the points listed is:
Open standards for interoperability with the current Web …
xyzzyxyzzy.net is running the latest wordpress release (2.3) which has a completely revamped tag system — breaking, unfortunately christine davis’s ultimate tag warrior plugin that i had been using on my wordpress blog(s) so far. while checking her blog for updates i noticed a trackback to the …
just back from our tent at the european researchers night demoing together with mike once more and again the IBM m-health toolkit aka IBM Personal Care Connect. contrary to what i had assumed it was not one large tent with booths inside — nope, each project had its own little tent …
while i’ve been using knetworkmanager and its side-kick kicker applet rather successfully on our private laptops (all running kubuntu now), it’s never been an option for my IBM laptop (both meanings of the words apply here :-) as we are using the IEEE8021X variant (with X.509 certificates) for …
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