^(almost) murphy.de

My homepage was about:blank for over a year now. I was sick of slow-loading start pages, and I just don’t have any site I really frequent so much that I want to look at it every time I open a new browser window.

But today, TPUTH became my Home Page in Firefox. It’s a metablog about “tech and design”.

What got me? The whole digital yellow-press newspaper style combined with Socialist party medals of geek gods, a Cyrillic-looking title that you can’t pronounce (try it!)…it’s just cute, and funny, and stylish. It has daily funny pictures, and only features ironic headlines that link straight into the blogosphere.

Ever needed a or a ?

Here’s a nice generator by the French team Country and Kath. It produces animated GIFs for a style and background color you select. You can download them, and they are Public Domain (at least that’s how I understand totally free for use).

I know I’m contradicting myself here:

Seriously, drop animated GIFs. They stink.

AJAX loading indicators may be the only valid excuse for using an animated GIF.

In January, I wrote about my thoughts on the iPad:

Somehow, I’d like to code on that thing! TextMate 2 for iPad?

Some weeks later, I realized that this might have been a stupid idea. Isn’t the iPad a media viewer, with editing capabilities for visual things like presentations at most?

On third thought…

Well, now Matt Gemmell writes about iPad Application Design. The first line that got me was:

Look like a viewer, and behave like an editor.

Wow, what a statement :) Isn’t that what TextMate is all about?

If something has more than, say, 5 parameters, it should be divided into components that have less.

• iMac – 4 variants
• Keyboard options in German Apple store: 12
• Windows 7 – 10+ versions (32/64 bit)
• CreateWindowEx – 12 parameters
• script.aculo.us’ Ajax.InPlaceEditor – 24 options
• RDoc – 40+ parameters

Less is more. Hierarchies, if sensibly applied, can manage complexity.

Think LEGO.

1 puts, p, print

2 require

3 raise, throw, warn

4 new

5 to_s, to_i, to_f, to_sym

6 private, protected

7 class

Why did I name my blog “(almost) murphy.de”? Two reasons:

• My internet nickname is murphy, and I’m German. However, murphy.de was taken. I thought I could use that as an idea for the name.
• I’m an incomplete being. There’s a great Blues Brothers song called Almost (original by Downchild) which gave me the idea. I think “almost” is a nice word, too.

So, this is my explanation :) What about your blog’s name?

Here’s a good article about the recent discussion about finally allowing gays (and lesbians) to serve openly in the US military. I hope Obama and the Admirals get this through.

And what about you, Turkey? Serbia? Greece? Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar? North and South Korea? Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan? Western Asia (except Israel)? Venezuela, Chile? Cuba? And, for god’s sake: Jamaica.

Or, the original version:

They do. As do Germans, Spaniards, Californians, Czechs, Polish, Indians, and propably some Japanese. I think that’s cool :)

This has got to be one of the ugliest logo images of a professional project ever:

But it’s used on their official website! This is embarrassing for “The Industry’s Foundation for High Performance Graphics”, as they call themselves. Seriously, drop animated GIFs. They stink.

Website Copyright 1997 – 2010 Khronos Group. A-ha. How about updating it to today’s web standards? At least make it valid!

I hope they make a WebGL website in the future ;)

Well, my prediction was wrong. After all these years, rumors have become reality: The iPad exists.

So, here are my thoughts about it:

• The name is silly.
• The lack of multitasking (they would have mentioned it if it was allowed) is definitely a problem. I don’t mind this limitation on the iPhone, but I can’t see anybody doing office work without being able to switch to email, browser, calendar, and messaging applications. I’m sure Apple knows that, and has come up with some solution.
  • Maybe apps really save their state always, and are starting up so quick that it doesn’t really matter if an app is running or not, the springboard just mimics an Exposé.
• The A4 is running at 1GHz and has a graphics chip built in. I think this is interesting; Apple may become CPU/GPU-independent in the future. A4 in the 4th-gen iPhone?
• Nobody seems to know about the RAM. But I guess it’s not fast enough for tasks like video editing or compiling.
• Somehow, I’d like to code on that thing! TextMate 2 for iPad?
• The user interface seems strange to me…a crossover of the iPhone OS full-screen, one-app-at-a-time interface on a traditional Mac OS X desktop?
• Why in the world did they put in a compass and a microphone?
• The keyboard is “almost to scale” – what’s that supposed to mean? How am I to type on this thing? Do I always need a chair? (They really needed that armchair for the presentation.)
• Price: $499 is cool, but why is it so much more expensive with 3G or more storage? But I guess 64GB would be enough for almost every task, for now.
• GPS seems to be limited to the 3G model.
• No camera…so, I take a camera with me and…how to get the photos on the iPad?
• No ports. No USB, no micro display, no nothing. I want to be able to plug in USB sticks! They didn’t even put in one of those SD card slots that recently popped up in MacBooks and iMacs. The answer to this is Accessories. Some of those cost extra; I don’t know if the SD/USB dongles are included.
• Apparently the 3G model uses Micro SIM. That may be a problem, even if it’s unlocked.
• 10 hours battery are nice, but expected.

All in all, it seems I would still need a laptop to perform day-to-day tasks. In its current form, the iPad is no replacement for a MacBook, not even the Air. It will be compared to the Kindle and other tablets, and the price will surely be a major con.

But as Mel Martin says, I’m sure Apple improves it over the next years.

Ruby 1.8.6

…defines the following constants:

Two weeks ago, I demonstrated how to draw text on a WebGL texture. Eric Shepherd is even rendering video [warning: with sound]. Today, I’m rendering web content – that’s to say, a HTML page.

Again, I’m using the canvas 2d context to draw the content before using its data for the texture. The example is also based on Giles’ WebGL Lesson 7.

Mozilla’s Firefox has a unique feature called drawWindow. It’s not secure and thus you have to ask the user for explicit permission. So, it’s not ready for general usage, but it’s a nice demonstration.

Note: Before the example works, you have to enable the signed.applets.codebase_principal_support option in about:config. Disable it afterwards!

I also use an IFrame. So, this is about as evil as it gets.

You need a WebGL-enabled Firefox to see this.

Here’s the code:

The world expects a “tablet/slate/unicorn/whatever”…as James Higgs puts it.

My prediction, and I go out on a limb with this, is:

There is no f*cking tablet!

Update: Oh wait, now they’re even dismissing a non-existing product!

Apropos…why not posting some more images of unicorns :)

Kirk Haines just stated:

If superior execution time is only achieved by offloading extra work
to an idle core, then that really isn’t a gain.

Agreed. Just because we have multiple cores now, that doesn’t mean we have to spawn threads for everything. In my opinion, achieving great single thread performance with good algorithms and clever optimization is still the best way of programming fast applications.

I compiled a pie graph of times needed for CodeRay scanner tests. More test data for a language means more time to run the tests.

As you can see, I have a lot of tests for Ruby (60,000 lines of code) and C (70,000), and less for Delphi (11,000). The combined “other” languages are C++, the CodeRay debug format, diff, ERB and Nitro HTML templates, Scheme, and XML.

I used the excellent Gruff graph library.

Here’s the code:

WebGL has no text rendering functions. But it’s pretty easy to create a texture with text using canvas 2D context:

You need a WebGL-enabled browser to see this.

The interesting code:

When cp -r takes a lot of time, I want to have an estimate how long it will take. My first approach was based on checking the size of the copied data repeatedly with du -sh.

This is obviously now very clean. Marco (a fellow student) told me that cp reacts to the SIGINFO signal by printing the progress to stdout. The manpage says:

If cp receives a SIGINFO (see the status argument for stty(1)) signal, the current input and output file and the percentage complete will be written to the standard output.

This is what the output looks like:

$ cp3 large.file large.file.copy 
large.file -> large.file.copy  42%
large.file -> large.file.copy  88%

Here’s the code:

I’m trying out a new scanner/encoder concept for CodeRay that would (hopefully) make highlighting even faster while improving the code at the same time.

Basically, it’s about bypassing the Tokens representation altogether.

The tests can be seen at Odd-eyed code.

Here are my results so far:

(1..100).select { |n| p n if ('1' * n) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/ }

Basically, the /^(11+?)\1+$/ part checks if the 1-string can be factorized. See Avinash Meetoo.

I use TextMate for everything that is text. Programming, organizing, shell-foo, writing for studies, protocolling, writing songs or guitar tabs, looking at patches and code, organizing, learning. And I have given up some great editors for it – Delphi, RDE, VIM, Weaverslave…actually, I switched to Mac in 2006 because of this software.

I just found out that I am [one of] the 129th most busy Rails Contributor[s], for my work on 7 patches back in 2006 and 2007.

Actually, I’m even #97 because 3 tickets for murphy where counted separately. Yay! I’m one of the top 100 Rails contributers. Now that’s something to brag about :D [Update: Xavier Noria added the alias. Great!]

Funny: Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Ola Bini, Sam Ruby, _why (the lucky stiff) and Zed Shaw come in last with only 1 commit. Even JEG2 has only worked on 3 tickets.

Also funny: There are currently excatly 1337 contributors listed!

devtail.com, a new site about developers’ lifes and works by Ian Stewart, is using my CodeRay syntax highlighter :) Nice.

Quote from his mail to me:

*Such* a great gem!

But it’s more due to Perl being so unpopular lately. Ruby stagnates; maybe Ruby 1.9.2, Rails 3, JRuby, MacRuby and Gemcutter can make Ruby more interesting in the future.

Update: It seems my prediction was wrong. But I wait another month before I take it back :)

Update: Epic fail. I was totally wrong; instead, Ruby is out of the Top 10 (Delphi took its place again). Every Top 10 language except C and Perl seems to weaken because of the advent of Objective-C and Google Go (the so-called company languages).

A cool feature of JavaScript 1.6 is called E4X:

var xhtml = <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
        <head>
                <title>Embedded SVG demo</title>
        </head>
        <body>
                <h1>Embedded SVG demo</h1>
                <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" 
                        viewBox="0 0 100 100">
                        <circle cx="50"
                                cy="50"
                                r="20"
                                stroke="orange"
                                stroke-width="2px"
                                fill="yellow" />
                </svg>
        </body>
</html>;
 
alert(xhtml.name().localName); // Alerts "html"
alert(xhtml.name().uri); // Alerts "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

I’m trying to highlight this syntax with CodeRay, but it’s a bit more complicated than I thought.

The last weeks I have been experimenting with WebGL, the upcoming 3D extension to the HTML 5 Canvas element. It is supported by the latest WebKit and Firefox nightly builds (read about getting WebGL to run on your system).

Now, here’s a rotating 500 4000 about 4900 polygon semi-transparent 3D sphere complete with a texture and lightning, animated via OpenGL by your graphics card – no Flash plugin needed (click the image):

If you want to stay updated about this developing technology, you can subscribe to the Planet WebGL meta-blog feed.

I can also recommend Giles’ step-by-step tutorials on learningwebgl.com, which I based my sphere example on.

This is just the beginning :) Some people are already creating games, demoscenes, and Viewers for 3D models with WebGL.

Update: Much faster mesh generation, more polygons. Always use Array.push instead of Array.concat.

Update 2: The Mesh library is now a separate file. Fixed some bugs with mesh generation.

In my tests, Ruby 1.8.7 runs simple benchmarks about 3-8% faster than 1.8.6 – that’s nice!

But Ruby 1.9.1 is far more fast, with speedups up to 2x for some real-life cases, and a reliable speedup around 10-20%.

JRuby performs better than 1.8, sometimes even better than 1.9, but only for longer tasks. For short benchmarks and day-to-day tasks, it’s often 2 or 3 times slower than any C-Ruby. The startup time is around 1 second, and thus JRuby is not the right tool for scripting tasks. It runs best on Java 6.

Draw here!

Draw the symbol you want to TeX in a HTML 5 Canvas, and it (mostly) gives you the command. Wow :)

I updated my Ruby 1.8 vs. 1.9 benchmark.

It seems they continue to speed up Ruby in the latest 1.9 trunk, eliminating some slowness and stabilizing the new VM.

For the projects I am programming lately, namely Fukubukuro (a JavaScript interpreter in Ruby) and EPIC/EVIL (a secret project ;), Ruby 1.9 turns out to be about twice as fast as Ruby 1.8.6. I also profit from faster testing, spec-checking and RDoc generation.

uptime says my MacBook with Leopard (OS X 10.5.7) has been running for over 21 days now without reboot, and with lots of sleep phases:

9:55  up 21 days, 20:55, 3 users, load averages: 0.47 0.36 0.35

A Chess simulation with JavaScript and HTML 5 Canvas.

It is to be played by two human players. I’m planning a computer opponent.

• shows board and pieces (as letters)
• shows possible moves
• move pieces: click on piece, then click on target square
  • all move rules except check, castling, en passant, draw game rules
• tested with Safari 4.0.2, Firefox 3.5.1, Opera 9.64, and iPhone OS 3.0
  • No shadows on Opera :-(
• graphical pieces, thanks to Cburnett from Wikipedia
  • I actually extended the Shapes library to interpret SVG paths!

I managed to build a readable QR Code (a 2D barcode) with my Lego blocks:

The encoded content is the URL of this blog, http://murfy.de. As you can see, I had not enough black pieces, and improvised with blue. I had to fill the background with white pieces to make it readable.

I saw this one in my Finder sidebar on Wednesday.

Nice new campaign from Microsoft.

Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X, is scheduled for September, a month before Windows 7. It will be almost completely 64 bit, Intel-only, and cost $29€ for Leopard users. Apple first announced that Snow Leopard would merely include speedups and core improvements, but now they added a lot of new features as well – not all of which get the publicity they deserve.

Ever wanted to know how much longer your cp -r needs? This little Ruby script might help you.

$ cp2 coderay coderay-0.8
From: 307M	coderay
To:   154M	coderay-0.8

The second line updates every second while copying. It’s fast enough on OS X, but I’m sure it can be optimized.

Here’s the code:

Today, President Barack Obama released plans to create a new government office dedicated to Cybersecurity. In his announcement, he stated:

Let me also be clear about what we will not do. Our pursuit of cybersecurity will not – I repeat, will not include – monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic. We will preserve and protect the personal privacy and civil liberties that we cherish as Americans. Indeed, I remain firmly committed to net neutrality so we can keep the Internet as it should be — open and free.

I love this movie.

Here’s another experiment with canvas: a simple map editor (click on the image).

You need Firefox, Opera, or Safari to see this; preferably one of the current beta versions (Safari 4 runs fastest, Firefox 3.5 is okay).

I’ve always been a fan of steampunk. This one is a nice calculator for the iPhone. It was made by Halle Winkler, a programmer in Berlin – and I haven’t found out yet whether this is a female name o_O

TeX is much to complicated for me, especially when it comes to simple text – I prefer the simplicity of Textile. But when it comes to typesetting formulas, there’s no real alternative.

So I’m trying to combine them, with this little Ruby script which runs on Leopard and uses latex2png:

Another great article about programming is the quite short piece Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years from Peter Norvig, written 2001. The title should be enough to stir your interest :)

According to this article, I’m some years and a few programming languages away from becoming a “master”. Yay me!

Please don’t vote now.

Actually, I think blog polls are statistically ridiculous.

One of the best articles I’ve read about general programming language topics is Jonathan Amsterdam’s Java’s new Considered Harmful (click on “Print” for a less ad-cluttered version.) He criticizes the use of the new Constructor(...) statement in Java on a functional level, concluding that “…for statically typed languages, it may not be possible to do better…”.

If you are interested in the never-ending discussion about static versus dynamic typing, I encourage you to read it. If you’re not, well, do something else.

Amsterdam also mentions Ruby’s approach to object creation, stating that it fixes a problematic behaviour of Smalltalk. Still, according to him, one problem remains:

A second drawback with […] Ruby is that initialize, being an ordinary method, does not chain: You must remember to begin your initialize methods with a call to the superclass’s initialize method.

1 Ruby

2 Python

3 JavaScript

4 C

5 QBasic

6 LOLCODE

7 Java

↓ Sarah Palin

↓ Guido Westerwelle

↓ Andrea Ypsilanti

↓ Franz Josef Jung

↓ Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

↓ Hartmut Mehdorn

↓ The Pope

-7 TeX – hate it, can’t find a replacement

-6 MSN Messenger, ICQ Client – I hate ads

-5 TWiki – the ulcer of Web 2.0

-4 coderay executable – ugly, cryptic, incomplete – needs a rewrite

-3 RDoc – hopelessly bad

-2 chatcity.de – so buggy that it hurts

-1 Internet Explorer 6 – it’s the devil

The Sky Crawlers, the latest movie from Mamuro Oshii, the director of the Ghost in the Shell movies. A quiet, poetic, philosophic, dramatic, sad movie. With lots of silence, CG airfight, cigarettes, children, a mother, a father, and a dog. And to your enjoyment, it’s two hours long.

I’ll just re-post my message to Frostii here:

It’s final. I fell in love with JavaScript.

I still love Ruby, but she can’t do this:

Your browser sucks.

(Essentially the clock from the Mozilla Canvas tutorial, a little tweaked.)

No GIF, no Flash, no Silverlight, no SVG, no ugly hacks – just HTML and JavaScript. As an added bonus, it doesn’t work in Internet Exploder.

…or a meta version of them. Hard stuff.

And someone once wrote my CodeRay website was ugly!

But nothing is as cool as Zombo.com.
Hey, their favicon resembles the CodeRay one o_O

Another variation of Ruby-chan for the CodeRay website.

Zugreifen!

• harakiri-training.{net,com,org,de} – ceremonial suicide for perfectionists
• son[-]schmar[r]n.de – So’n Schmarrn!
• mylleimer.de – nicht M. Ülleimer
• staats-sicherheit.de – Homepage des Dr. Schäuble
• sql-fu.de – master your SQL
• perfect[-]cheese.com – Der perfekte Käse.
• mieznozeros.de – ein Rhinozeros, das “Miau!” macht
• chillkroeten.de – Ey, Dude!
• abc[-]bombe.de – Buam!
• curling-action.de – Die spannendste Sportart der Welt!
• mycollapse.de – Manage your insolvency online for FREE!
• oddeyedcat.{net,org,de} – strangely beautiful
• this-is-sparta.de – *kick*
• rmfb.de – Read My Fucking Blog!

Waldkitas sind langweilig!

• kitawald.de
• wallkita.de
• wildkita.de
• gewaltkita.de
• kita-gewalt.de

(This is an open list, add your ideas in the comments.)

Nobody can solve a big problem. But some people are good at dividing big problems into smaller problems that everybody can solve.

Those people are called programmers; their skill is division.

This was 4 years ago. I assume they are still computing the image of the 2006 map.

github commit comments

There’s a form for comments, but if you try to send it, you’re redirected to the login page! If you don’t know how to fight spam, at least don’t let me type my shit into the trash bin. I allow anonymous comments on my blog, and if you don’t, you stink.

nVidia Forums

Your captchas are so stinkin’ unreadable that I had to try at least a dozen times ! I’m not blind you know? And if you validate my email adress anyway, why bug me with captchas? And then, I couldn’t log in! After trying a dozillion times, I found out that you have to give your email and password, instead of the nickname you had to choose. Try reading some interface guidelines! Finally:

Sorry, your account has been locked due to an excessive number of failed login attempts within a defined period. Your account will automatically be unlocked in 14 minutes

SOB!

Ever wondered where a deep symlink points to? Try tracelink.

13:59:48 ~ $ tl foo2
foo2 --> foo (relative)
foo --> bla (relative)
bla: empty
14:00:27 ~ $ tl `which tl`
/usr/local/bin/tl --> /usr/local/bin/tracelink (absolute)
/usr/local/bin/tracelink: a ruby script text executable
14:00:34 ~ $ cat `which tl`

Did you know?

Every time you run the Ruby 1.9 test suite, a child dies :(

I wrote a simple version of the UNIX directory disk usage tool du (disk usage). Its output should be exactly the same as du -sh. Call it with the name of a file or folder.

Update: This is the second version, using a better method for the bytesize output and guessing the system’s blocksize.

I find this incredible (needs Flash). And this, too (needs Java).

All Episodes of Road Runner, on YouTube.

Teaching Rails more languages is now as simple as:

• downloading example locales,
• putting them in your config/locales folder, and
• adding a method to ApplicationController that detects the user’s language:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  before_filter :set_locale
  def set_locale
    I18n.locale = request.env.fetch('HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE', '')[/(?:,|^)(de|en)\b/, 1]
  end
end

You have to adjust the regexp to allow automatic recognition of more languages; I haven’t found out yet how to get a list of all available locales without using I18n.load_path, but maybe the community helps me out.

It’s cool that changes to the locale files are applied instantly in development mode! A great improvement :D

I just love Sinfest.

heise.

So far, ever stinking attack from the McCain/Palin campaign against Obama has turned out to be false, misleading, or groundless. But Obama’s connection to ACORN in the past and today (see this McCain Web Ad) could be problematic, since ACORN is a left-wing organization that has tolerated, supported or lead criminal activities, namely voter registration fraud.

Maybe it’s that simple – Gallup finds that John McCain is too old.

Actually, 23/6 were the first to understand this.

(Barack Obama is 47, while John McCain is 72 years old. Michelle Obama is 44, while Cindy McCain is 54. Joe Biden is 65, while Sarah Palin is 44, and younger than Michelle. Together, they are 326 years old.)

My father took that photo in 2004 in Miami:

Well, I’m not sure if this is possible, but then, everything’s possible. Can’t be worse than Palin.

(Thanks to my brother for sending me the picture.)

Question: Right now a recent study says and the polls reflect that Barack Obama is gaining ever since this crisis has landed in everyone’s kitchen table, why is that?

McCain: Because life isn’t fair.

(Fox & Friends)

They say they love being underdogs. Well, let them be.

Angry, elderly men are missed by election polls

Is Murphy’s Law the way the universe protects itself from destruction?

In addition to delivering such wonderful thoughts, Megan McArdle’s blog reports about things happening in the US and is really worth a read.

(German translation on Ruby-Mine.)

Now, I’m about to write the Java Scanner for CodeRay (ticket #42 btw), and I thought it would be nice to have a list of built-in types highlighted – like String or IllegalStateException. I knew that TextMate had quite good highlighting for Java, so I checked the bundle for something to use.

Indeed, some smart guy included a very long regular expression into the token definitions, it looks like this:

support-type-built-ins-java = {
  name = 'support.type.built-ins.java';
  match = '\b(R(GBImageFilter|MI(S(ocketFactory|e(curity(Manager|Exception)|
    rver(SocketFactory|Impl(_Stub)?)?))|C(onnect(ion(Impl(_Stub)?)?|
    or(Server)?)|l(ientSocketFactory|assLoader(Spi)?))|IIOPServerImpl|
    JRMPServerImpl|FailureHandler)|SA(MultiPrimePrivateCrtKey(Spec)?|
    ...this goes on for several screens...

Apparently, they converted a long list of types into a minimal regexp, surely using a script for this. But that wasn’t exactly what I had searched for. How could I convert this back into the original plain list?¹

Seen the new iPod 4G color lineup?

Well, let me tell you what those colors stand for:

I love Barack Obama’s speeches, and I wish we had such a charismatic politician with such bold ideas of change here in Germany. He’s an attourney, and I assume a great one. But he seems to have some problems with math.

Camping sessions not working lately? Well, it’s a problem with Rails 2.1, to be more precise: ActiveRecord 2.1.0.

This took me at least 5 hours, but I finally got it: the latest version of AR does Dirty tracking and partial SQL updates. This means it only saves a new value when it thinks the attribute has changed. Nice, but it bugs Camping. So, here’s the patch:

I was waiting eagerly for 3rd party apps on my iPhone since I bought it…but I didn’t expect the apps to be this good. Turns out the best game is actually free: “Aurora Feint: The Beginning”. The developers are very active and nice. Give it a try, if you have an iPhone or iPod touch :)

Screw that. Apple has taken it down (Thank you! No sarcasm!) because it actually sends your contact list over to the developers’ server.

Please read my other post on the topic.

I love MacBooks, here’s another reason: LiquidMac!

It works using the internal Sudden Motion Sensor that protects the hard drive from “disk failures if the computer is dropped or undergoes severe vibration” (official info). Nice toy!

Looks like a very old or very futuristic city, don’t you think?

Sorry, I have to do my tax declaration today and it suuuuuucks :/

Really one of the funniest websites I’ve seen:

I got naked!

http://naked.dustindiaz.com/ is celebrating the 3rd CSS Naked Day. Enjoy my blog without CSS :)

MacBooks are closed with two magnets in the top corners of the screen. I wondered how I could put them to further use. This is what I came up with:

I had a short trip to London (business, you know).

A beautiful butterfly took a rest outside of my window for a while and waited for me to make photos of it ^^.

Some pictures of my home city I took a while ago.

This new MacBook looks nice. But it has strange specifications:

• just 4 plugs: power, USB, headphones, µ-DVI.
• no optical drive
• no user-replaceable everything
• backlit keyboard <3 – sweet nonsense
• optional SSD drive…finally!
• 1,36 kg (10 iPhones, or a kilogramm lighter than a MacBook)

Still, I’m thinking about getting one later this year. And I want an SSD (that’s a non-mechanical hard drive – die, HDD!), which is currently just too expensive (900 $ extra!) Am I crazy? Let me explain.

I have a new blog :-)

Not much to say currently, but stay tuned…or linked.