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. To set the
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 subscription will renew.
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 this one back
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 domain, which I
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 get your latest
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 rather innovative approach
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 lot of new
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 persists to this
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Internet N.A.D.D. Uh oh, after reading this article on 43 Folders, I think I may be suffering from N.A.D.D. Not good, not good.
digital_camera On digital cameras Well, here’s some sound advice, worthy of at least a mention in Lifehacker, maybe even a whole series featuring me elaborating on my advice: If you ever own a digital camera, make
hype Microsoft's live.com Sometime last week, Microsoft presented live.com. It’s basically their try to latch onto what they perceive as the whole Web 2.0 movement. Until a few days ago, there was no
Internet What's in a name? When I checked my website stats yesterday, I stumbled upon this gem of network nomenclature: I had to resize the image, otherwise it wouldn’t have fit on this very page. Click to
creativity The printer predicament If I had had to visualize my mood during most of the day today, it would have looked like that: Why would my mood have looked like a makeshift ashtray? Because I was
network What's in a day? Here’s a little quiz for you: If you are supposed to work on a presentation due on Friday, is it a good idea to go out on a Wednesday morning and buy
database_service Google Base Google apparently launched a quick test of a new service called Google Base (which at the time of writing is down). From what I gathered, it’s supposed to be some kind of