Inspiring TED talk on corruption

Peter Eigen, founder of Transparency International, talks about the long way of exposing the damage corruption is bringing to our world. An inspiring aura of true and utter sincerity flows through his talk.

Other's N900 gagdet fun

N900 as retro gaming box.

Bambini soccer in the hood

It's always quite fun to watch the Bambini soccer cups of our youngest son. Most of the teams are swirling around the ball like bees ;-)

But there are usually one or two exceptional teams which have grasped the concept of passing the ball and using the space. Quite fun to watch.

My first post from the N900

Let's see if I can finally arrive in the modern times of the mobile web. Kind of hard to type on such a tiny keyboard but definitly fun.

I'm just trying to travel from Hamburg to Karlsruhe which is a major challenge in these days of snow weather everywhere in Germany. Two hours delay and counting. But a nice slowdown in a too busy work schedule ;-)

Crash course in alioth usage

Lessons learned today:

• Debian developers already have got accounts on alioth and don't have to needlessly create new accounts like I did


• always check the project home page of an alioth project otherwise you look potentially at an old and dead cvs repository like I did instead of the current svn repository


• do more research before you do ITPs otherwise there are more lessons like the above for me to learn

Returning to some Debian work in the new year

Decided to get back to some Debian related work: posted an ITP for the vdr epgsearch plugin. The autotimer function of vdradmin which I use extensively is reaaaally slowing down the web interface. Fortunately more recent vdradmin versions are deprecating the autotimer function and recommend the epgsearch plugin for automatic timers. So instead of just compiling the plugin for myself I thought I should better do it properly and include it in Debian. I hope to get it done during the week.

BTW happy new year to everyone who just changed years according to their calendar. For me I'm sure it'll get an interesting ride this year.

Commuting in soccer world cup times

Late evening commuting (pre-launch time at ComBOTS) is quite
interesting during these soccer world cup times right now. Australians
accompanied by 1,5m plastic kangaroos, groups of Italians,
Spanish and Germans wildly debating and celebrating in a mixture of
English, German and Spanish, flocks of young Germans stylishly made up
with german colours for after-soccer parties, people wrapped in flags
everywhere, .... Actually the soccer influence in commuter space is far
nicer than expected and the party still goes on.