tech-stuff The state of blogs There's a great write-up on The Guardian about the state of the blogosphere (I think we might be allowed to use that term unironically now). From the piece: The furore over social media and its impact on democracy has obscured the fact that the
tech-stuff Blank VHS Covers The times of the video cassettes is long gone. But what remains is the artwork on the covers of the blank ones you could buy to tape, you know, television or pirated versions of films, if you were lucky enough to have access to
tech-stuff My current feed-reader setup In which I describe how I read RSS (or ATOM) feeds. With pictures.
tech-stuff Twitter and 280 characters A few thoughts about Twitter and its 280 character limit which slowly devolves into a semi-rant.
tech-stuff Spring cleaning We're deep into spring, which was a great excuse to go ahead and do some spring cleaning on here and with all the other stuff I tend to self-host lately.
EverNote The Evernote conundrum It's the middle of July, and for everyone familiar with the progression of months, they'll be aware that August will follow suit. For me that means that my yearly Evernote
blogging New host, new platform and a whole lot of broken links The last half year or so I've slowly made my way into blogging again. One of my plans was to consolidate all the various blogs that I forked out of
blogs Slimming down the domain-portfolio It’s 2016 and this is my first blog post of the year. I’m writing it on this blog that served me so well for almost 13 years. The
featured An ode to Pocket Casts I’ve been listening to podcasts, on and off, for the better part of ten years now and while in the early days it was quite a bit cumbersome to
carousel The demise of the add-on service A few days ago users of Mailbox and Carousel, two very different services, saw e-mails in their inbox telling them about the impending sunsetting of said services. Mailbox was a
featured A rebuilt Wordpress.com I’m a big fan of self-hosted software, testament to which is a project called Self-hosted web I started a few years ago. Admittedly, I haven’t reviewed a whole
Apple Some thoughts on the Internet It’s been more than three years since I last published anything about technology (it was a post where I expressed my distaste for Instagram on Android, a notion that
Music Recurring fears Oh why is it that I’m always afraid of upgrading my WordPress version? Well, I’ll tell you. It’s because it always ends in something that’ll take me about three hours to repair and clean up. Don’t ask me why,
tech-stuff Barcamp once again And tomorrow’s time for Barcamp once again. Last time Daniel and I presented our baby Medienschelte.at, got lots of constructive feedback and engaged in more than one fruitful discussion. This time it’s going to be hosted by Microsoft, who seem to
tech-stuff Barcamp On June 10th, it’s time for BarCamp. As an “unconference”, it sounds like it’s going to be quite the bit of fun. I’ll be attending, as will my partner in crime Daniel. I’m really looking forward to it, because from
botched_computer So I was afraid of upgrading... …but I didn’t think it would turn out to be that bad. (Public service announcement: This entry is rather technical in nature, and may not be suitable for people who are not interested in Linux. It does contain human tragedy though.) See, I
american_cemetery NC Pt.VII - The Cemetery The American Cemetery near Omaha Beach is quite impressive. It’s a vast area, and every single piece of grass looks like it’s been manually trimmed. When we visited, the weather was perfect, but despite the warm sun, looking at the thousands of
computer Whoa What can I say? I’m one happy pup. Next steps: Wipe off Windows Install Kubuntu Remain in deep and everlasting gratitude to my wonderful sister who made this beast possible.
tech-stuff One becomes Two In an attempt to abuse my massive readerbase to aid me in my sinister plans for world domination, I’ve taken the next logical step: I split my blog in two. For all those of you who come here to read about my everyday
Internet Fluxiom and Box.net I’ve been wanting to write a little bit about Fluxiom, Vienna based file storage and sharing app for a few days now. I was always too busy, and now Michael Arrington from TechCrunch is stealing my thunder. Read his review and you’ll
tech-stuff Wordpress update I just updated to WordPress 2.0 and the newest revision of K2. As always there was a bit of CSS editing involved, all in all it wasn’t that bad. Of course there are still things that make me cringe, but that’s
boltfolio Waiting for Google calendar Well, I feel like a total nerd because I waited all day on the 6th, expecting a message on Digg or Slashdot that Google Calendar had launched. Sure as hell, that message never appeared. Now, I’m still waiting for this calendar thing to
