I got up to late today and my ticket list is ways to long plus I need to finish some work for a client. However - the weather is fine today and I don’t feel stressed or something like that. I bought the new Roots Manuva and really like it. I had a “club-mate” and a delicious Panini toast (yummy) and I am very looking forward to have an after work beer - in about 2 hours

At my work we usually do Java/JSP stuff but a few weeks I did a small PHP Job here and today I made the statistic in mysql. Actually nothing special but a welcome change if you imagine stupid JSP Struts tasks day in and day out and boring style-stasi requests from project managers and so on. But I am hip to the spirit and love computer work - or at least the creative-innovative part of it - the rest I try to reject and forget. Actually it is always the same - some project manager come up with a kick ass idea and then during the production it gets reduced to something really boring and forgettable unimportant whatsoever.

My coffee is empty [...] ^^

A Project manager recently emailed me about a non working link but without to mention which link he was taking about, so I replied: «What kind of link, in what situation - how can I reproduce it?» - After a short while he sent me a screen shot and said it would happen when he clicks on a flash file. (Why does he bother me? He has sent me the flash file and someone else created it.)

Nevertheless I am a very kind IT guy and explained the issue to him - So I wrote him that a link to an external resource always consist out of: 1) a protocol name, 2) an instruction for the browser that it is an external resource :// and finally 3) the domain name and last but not least the TLD and optional paths or parameters.

You may call me a fault finder but that’s something that happened not the first time. I guess this is a classic example of: stupid new media. People who are working in the new media should knew what a friggin link is - especially when they are Project Manager of a website!

It was time to get a new mobile phone so I’ve choosen the BlackBerry Bold 9000 for 89,- EUR and hope it will be delivered until tomorrow. I guess I will not use all the fancy features it claims to provide but it’s good to know I could if I would like to. - Nah, I will use some of them for sure, like the GPS + Maps, email, 2MP Cam, IM stuff, Organizer, Browser and of course I’ll use it primary as phone

Also I’ve canceled the 16mbit / VOIP Alice Contract and ordered a VDSL 25 MBIT/ISDN line from t-kom and hope we’ll get it until next month.

Also I’ve installed chrome, googles new browser but more importantly it seems to me that googles war against MS reaches another level. I wonder what MS will be in two years. MS loses constant market share in the browser business and I’ll be surprised about the Moz Foundation and google corporation in the future. Firefox has meanwhile a good share with ~20% and as someone mentioned some weeks ago, every laptop above 1000 USD is a Mac. Yarr, and there is no IE since 5.5 for the Mac and every development ist discontinued. Thus I assume that the IE will no more be the browser to develop for (primary) in future, because it will be just one amongst of many. And! If the antitrust law finaly forbid the bundling of Browser/OS - then a long fought war is eventually won!

However!

Updates may also appear in the real world and yesterday I’ve (managed to) updated my competent revenue authorities with the “est”, “gse” and “n” Papers, without any assistance … *sigh* :p

I’ve found this one by accident, when a friend showed me a video of Paul Anka, because she was on his concert this evening. I really love this video of Rita Pavone. I’ve never heard of her before and most of her songs I’ve now discovered belong to a very different generation but this one is a timeless and very positive, funny whatsoever one. I must admit, I do not understand much but that doesn’t matter. … So here it is: »my name is potato«

That means: I am feeling fine, besides the feeling, being drugged with fatigue. It was a hard and long week and I am really happy to have the spare time to relax now. Sebastian, from Areal Records, for whom I and Jaana make his website, came for a visit today and gave me some of their releases, in exchange to Marcel’s and my Demo-CD. And I have to admit - I am really surprised about Ada’s sound. I really like it. It has a good mood, spreads a warm and gentle feeling and make me feel comfortable. I mean the Blondix 2 release, with Erlend Øye.

Marcel finally have his first release on iconise with a remix of Tala’s »Mandragora« and if everything works out fine, he’ll release his second tune on iconise aswell and if I can manage my spare time better, I’ll do a remix. However, I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it. I’ve already started »something«, but it sounds to overloaded and ordinary.

But it is Friday and some people might suggest to do party, get wasted and at least stay not at home but I really enjoy the peace of being alone today. There’s no need for me today to go excited. I am at peace with my own state of mind and looking forward to see my girl tomorrow, meet her sister for the first time and Nina again (she is a very kind person and before she goes back to São Paulo), wake up not to late and maybe find some interesting ad for a new flat for Steffi and me.

I should go to sleep soon - but I guess I’ll have one more beer and then…..

once again I have to do stuff for the IE “only” (omfg!) and it’s a not just a pain in the ass it’s like a heart attacking nightmare horror movie. The IE’s debugging capabilities - uhm wait, what debugging capabilities? - are simly not existent and if you try to mention the IE developer toolbar, I could cry. It’s like a mediaval attemp to transform coal into gold. Useless! Well, I’m a Windows user and there are some cool things about the OS itself, but the IE is a piece of shit - a waste of memory - a big fucking mistake in the technical evolution of mankind. The IE must die, disappear from the world of browsers. There is no hope. Not anymore. Not just a little.

Watch it and love it. It’s so funny and made my day yesterday and actually today again

My Flatmate bought a couple of weeks a video ipod because his 3rd gen ipod’s battery has died. He told me it will be expensive to get it fix, so I’ve googled for a cheaper solution and found somewhere a nice howto. Tuesday I’ve ordered via ebay a new 1100ma/h Battery and yesterday it arrived. It took me 10 minutes to change it. And now I’m going to use my new Ipod for the first time - which means - I have music on my ears again. yay!

Edit: The Ipod works fine. Cool!

Just installed SpamAssassin and modified the mx server, to hopefully stop some spam. I’ve found this tutorial and it has helped me a bit to configure everything. 100+ Spam mails/Day are definetely too much, so if everything works fine, it will reduce all the spam down to 20%. I mean: I’ve set up a little ruleset in theBat to store all flagged mails in a junk folder and mark them as read.

It’s monday

*note: the mx stuff seems to work and currently I get only 20 spam mails, which means a reduction of ~80% and spamassassin does the rest. Only 1-3 Spam Mails/day, which is quite cool *

The g8 was not always noisy and crowded and sometimes I was able to capture some sort of peace and silence.