Karl Klammer

What is wrong with all the people? Not too long ago, I was forced to take a look at that horrible horrible terrible horrid Office 2007 bullshit package. It looks untidy, its toolbars are cluttering half (if not more) of my screen, its UI paradigm are totally different and weird, it was not (okay, that is not surprising at all, after all it's a genuine Microsoft product) able to open the first Powerpoint 2003 file flying around, it has this nasty shiny big button on the left hand side and it lacks the most important, cool feature of the old Office: Clippit...

...or "Karl Klammer" which is its much cooler German name that I am going to use from now. How could this happen? Actually, Karl was the reason to choose Office 2003 over any other office suite in the world. Now we can as well use LaTeX to type our one-page-letters...
By the way, why do the search expressions "Karl Klammer" and "Petition" in google not result in several sites with the attempt to bring Karl back? They only point to rant of irrelevant people how to get rid of him! Can you imagine?
Karl, you will always have a special place in my heart. Forever.

Shuffle play

I absolutely cannot find a word to describe how true this comic on xkcd regarding shuffle playing large playlists is. Can you?

Mobile phones

Telephones are the worst form of verbal human interaction. They are just horrible. End of story. The only thing that's worse are mobile phones. And that poor children are subject to mobbing these days in case they don't have a mobile phone by the time they learn to read and write is just mad. So I never found mobile phones any interesting. Until today. It seems that the OpenMoko FreeRunner can be pre-ordered now. Although that doesn't make telephone more interesting, it would be neat to have one of these devices where I can actually change things that piss me off on other crappy phones (like my own) that allow ludicrously insignificant modifications like a different fu**ing ring tone. Let's observe this in the not too distant future.

Geeky hobbies

Sometimes it is nice to actually find something cool, useful and geeky when browsing the Internet. Among the bazillions of porn pages, so-called news concerning Paris Hilton's hair colour and other waste of bandwidth, I stumbled upon some very beautiful pictures of processor dies that an engineer took on his own workbench. Respect, I say.

The inner working of a cell

Recently we came across a nice video about the inner workings of cells:
http://www.studiodaily.com/main/searchlist/6850.html
Maybe next time this is recycled by Pixar for "The mitochondria movie" that tops the box office results of "The bee movie".

Intro

Okay, finally I got my guts together and created this new blog. I hope with time some other people are going to contribute as well. I decided that the first entry should be something of epic importance. Can you remember that one: