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 took us quite a while until we were all satisfied but now it’s done and you can view it over here:

» http://areal-records.com/

The site relies on prototype, some web 2.0 gimmickry, scriptaculous and the pear framework, a wonderful combine script for CSS and JS. Firefox 3 still needs some »pimping« but for all the other browsers it should work fine, as far as I can tell.

It’s midnight.

My neighbours just had sex - uhh, ahhh, uuhhhh - well for about 4 minutes - not much longer - then they were done. So I’d call it a quickly. I was quite tempted to have a look but I thought that would be indecent and naughty, even though it sounded like a doggy-style However, I’m no voyeur and it’s a hot night and every cool cat wanna have a kitten - or so…

The only reason I’ve noticed them is, our balcony doors are next to each other and both are wide open. But for my excuse, I’m still fixing a database - or better said, I do a modification. for writershops.com I use the world DB from MySQL plus an extra column for the CIA facts book country code. However, I’m still thinking about to extend it with postal codes and make it public to everyone. Maybe. Time-management is not one of my primary attributes so far.

Tomorrow we have “beer and sausage” at our company, which is quite cool - I mean the fact that we do such things on company time and money. Each first Friday on every new month one department is organizing this little event. Last time we had Becks, this time we’ll have Berliner and sausages.

However (I love this word), I’m currently working on a new JavaScript lib, with a carousel, an interactive navigation and some tab switcher, a lightbox, some fx wrapper and other stuff, based on prototype and scriptaculous. That it nothing phenomenal, but I try to keep it slick as possible and of course flexible. ATM you still can apply any function to the callback functions »beforeStart« and »afterFinish«, via one method call. I’ll post the code when I’ve got something like a milestone release, which seems to be end of July.

It took us 3 weeks more than expected(stupid things like a missing index = up to 140 server-load) but since last week medizin-online.de it’s online. YAY! However! Tomorrow we’ll go to Sylt and to be more precise to »List«, relaxing for 3-4 Days at the beach and maybe doing a day trip to Rømø. I really love the northern part of Germany - because that’s where I’m from and »List« is “the northernmost municipality in Germany, located on the North Sea island of Sylt close to Denmark in the district of Nordfriesland in the state of Schleswig-Holstein (wiki)“.

On the way back we’ll visit my family, especially my Grandma, Mom and Cousin, because I haven’t seen them for quite a while. I guess 2 Years for now and plus that: my Dear haven’t seen Hamburg yet! Haha, that’s a lot of things to do in just 5 Days. 3 Cities and approximately 1.000 km by car - but the beach will excuse everything

It took a while but it’s finally online. Just abuse your mouse and click on the screenshot below to view the site. Nothing special and I’ve saw a few minutes ago I gotta fix some stuff but visually it’s ok and everthing seems to work. SBM is my first project I’ve done with struts. I do not like struts that much - actually it sucks IMHO but that’s just me

I’m currently working on the medizin-online.de relounge and that’s a lot of work. Really - believe me Once again I fight my dislike for the IE and hate it how the IE6 displays certain elements but I love the Papyrus we’ve bought yesterday and hope the red pepper, sunflower, wild flower, herbs and snowflakes will grow nicely. To bad I have to do so much computer related work atm, that the wonderfull sun outside will shine without my physically presence. That’s why I have good music (RA.092 Derek Plaslaiko) on my headphones (AKG K81DJ) and lots of sweets on my desk.

I also feel very comfortable in my new cargo pants (carhartt) and white addidas superstars (v2) …

However - it is Wendsday and I should continue to work on the site mentioned above. The sun IS still shining! ^^