Euch ein paar schöne Tage, wir werden es auch sehr ruhig angehen lassen. Vielleicht kriege ich es aber trotzdem hin, einen Tweet oder ein Foto abzusetzen…

Be good, take care.

1. Das Foto ist von Henrik Ismarker dankenswerterweise unter CC-Lizenz gestellt worden.

• FormulatePro – helps you open and write on PDF documents. You can fill out any PDF form document, drop in graphics, scribble with the mouse or a tablet, save and print.
• Dia – is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.
• bananajour – is local git repository hosting with a sexy web interface and Bonjour discovery. It's like a bunch of adhoc, local, network-aware githubs!
• LaTeX to WordPress – is a program that converts a LaTeX file into something that is ready to be cut and pasted into WordPress.
• Name Mangler – if you need to rename several files at once every now and then, this is the application you have always been looking for.
• Wallpaper Junie – With WJ you can view and download InterfaceLIFT wallpapers(over 2000 available).
• EventSync – is an application for OS X that allows you to sync your Facebook Events with iCal. Now you will never miss the next party, meeting, or any other event that is posted on Facebook.
• ikiwiki – is a wiki compiler. It converts wiki pages into HTML pages suitable for publishing on a website. Ikiwiki stores pages and history in a revision control system such as Subversion or Git. There are many other features, including support for blogging, as well as a large array of plugins.
• flogr – shows your pictures from flickr in a customizable photo portfolio interface which includes a main photo page with EXIF details and flickr user comments, a customizable thumbnails page of your recent work, a slideshow component to browse through thumbnails, a tag cloud page, and an about page that shows your flickr user profile.

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Dieses Blog wird in der Zwischenzeit vermutlich keine Updates erfahren, vielleicht gibt es aber ein paar Fotos oder Tweets aus Andalusien…

Be good, take care.

1. Das Foto ist von queguenae dankenswerterweise unter CC-Lizenz gestellt worden, gracias!

• Principia Discordia – Principia Discordia, 1st Edition.
• Backing Up Flickr – Backing up Flickr with Python…
• A Guide on Advanced Logging and Benchmarking with FirePHP –
• 4-minute Chocolate Mousse – This incredibly decadent, luxurious chocolate mousse recipe comes to us from Gordon Ramsay (to whom I lovingly refer as Angry Chef). You have to try this! It's worth every single minute of effort.
• Burning Man And Its Radical Links To Silicon Valley And Geek Culture –
• TweetMyMac – lets you get screenshots, iSight snapshots, and your IP address from your Mac just by sending a direct message to your specially setup Mac controlling account. You can start torrents remotely, shutdown your Mac and more.
• How to Actually Make Coffee – You probably brew coffee, like most people, the most insipid way possible: Using a Mr. Coffee that you fill with pre-ground coffee from the supermarket. There's a million other ways to make coffee, and they're all better.
• MiniBatteryStatus Widget – is a small Dashboard widget that monitors battery status, charge percentage and remaining battery life. Integrated with Growl to alert you when it's time to recharge your battery.
• DateLine – is a small, simple app which displays a linear calendar on your desktop in a transparent window. It provides easy access to iCal by double clicking on a day. The background and text colors are customizable with support for transparency.
• Ye Olde Map Maker – Very cool online tool to create maps for table-top role playing games.

• The anatomy of cloud computing –
• Diakonos – the console text editor with a key mapping you practically already know. Easy to use and easy to configure, but potent in the hands of power users.
• GlusterFS – is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system.
• Maperture – Combining the power of Aperture and Google Maps (the mapping engine you know and love), Maperture is a powerful, new edit plug-in that makes geotagging your photos a snap.
• HoudahGeo – may store latitude, longitude and altitude information right within the image file – invisibly with no loss of quality. HoudahGeo writes EXIF, XMP and IPTC tags. $30.

Aber diese Neuigkeit wollte ich euch nicht vorenthalten¹:

Seit Freitag wohnt eine Katze namens Manu bei uns. Ursprünglich lebte sie bei Kathis Onkel der sich aber im Moment aus gesundheitlichen Gründen nicht um sie kümmern kann. Jetzt ist sie bei uns, sehr scheu und hat am Wochenende die meiste Zeit hinter ihrem neuem Freund dem Trockner² verbracht.

Ein wenig wurde aber auch schon die Wohnung erkundet und wir hoffen dass sie sich noch besser an uns gewöhnt und ihre Scheu verliert. Toll ist es, dass sie schon ihr Katzenklo gefunden hat und davon absieht Möbel und Tapeten mit kreativen Mustern zu verzieren…

Ihr könnt euch also schon mal ein wenig auf mehr Cat Content in diesem bescheidenen Blog einstellen. Denn:

If you want to write, keep cats.

–Aldous Huxley

1. Extended Catcontent ahead
2. Diese Freundschaft wird vermutlich ein jähes Ende finden wenn wir mal wieder Wäsche trocknen…

• tarpipe – simplifies the process of adding, sharing, and moving content among the web services you use, by allowing you to define a repeatable, automatic workflow.
• Hyperspaces – Customize Apples spacey using colors, desktop pictures, etc. Should be build in, is Shareware and in public preview for $12,95…
• Advantageous mp3 – find new music on iTunes, buy it DRM-free on Amazon MP3. Currently US only…
• EventBox – All in one social networking app on the Mac OS X Desktop… Shareware, $20.
• Hardware-Inventarisierung mit Open-Source – Schöner Übersichtsartikel…
• Fabric – is a simple pythonic remote deployment tool. Unlike Capistrano, Fabric wants to stay small, light, easy to change and not bound to any specific framework.
• The Big Mean Folder Machine – is an essential tool for anyone working with large file collections. It can split and merge file collections based on certain rules, filetypes size and other criteria… Shareware, 14,95€.
• pssh – The Parallel ssh project includes parallel versions of the shell (pssh), scp (pscp), rsync (prsync), and kill (pnuke).
• Gmail Modes – Different URLs for different modes. Might come in handy…
• The GTDAlt bundle workflow – Seems a bit complicated compared to a graphical solution but maybe it just needs another look at it…

• The Meat Hooker: Steak – The technique of preparing the perfect steak is quite simple and uncomplicated. It's an art that has almost been forgotten.
• Become Web Dead: Erase Your Online Identity in 10 Steps – because what happens in Vegas, stays online.
• FunctionFlip – individually controls your MacBook or MacBook Pro's function keys, turning special keys back to regular F-keys, or vice-versa.
• Ubuntu Eee – Ubuntu for the Asus eeePCs…
• eBay-Angebote vorzeitig beenden -aber richtig- –
• Cappuccino Web Framework – Cappuccino is an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser
• Seitwert – Pfiffig gemachte Bewertung von Webseiten.
• Flickr: Der Pool von Genres – Icons for the iTunes 8 genres grid on flickr.
• IG Metall ITK – Entgeltanalysen für Studienabsolventen und noch viel mehr…
• ?TwitterKeys? – Very nice bookmarklet. Providing quick access to UTF8 Symbols.

So.

Semesterferien, Urlaub, ab in die Sonne!

Bis in einer Woche, be good, take care.

1. Foto von Felix Beinlich unter einer CC-Lizenz veröffentlicht, danke!

Hier das Rezept für meinen absoluten Lieblingskuchen.

Das Original habe ich offenbar um 1986 herum, kurz nach Erlernen der vereinfachten Ausgangsschrift zu Papier gebracht und ich kann euch sagen, bis heute ist meine Handschrift nicht wesentlich besser geworden…

Nur gut, dass es Tastaturen gibt.

Man nehme:

• 3 Tassen¹ Zucker
• 4 Tassen Mehl
• 5 Eier
• 4 Esslöffel Kakao ohne Zucker
• 500g Margarine
• 1 Tasse Milch
• 1 Packung Backpulver
• 100g gemahlene Nüsse
• 1 Tasse heisses Wasser

Alles cremig miteinander verquirlen, auf ein mit Backpapier ausgelegtes Backblech geben und bei 165 Grad Umluft² 20-25 Minuten im vorgeheizten Ofen backen.

Anschliessend nach Gusto mit Schokoglausur verzieren.

1. Mit “Tasse” ist offenbar eine normale Kaffeeservice Tasse gemeint, kein Kaffeepott
2. oder wie im Original bei 175 Grad, früher gab es ja noch keine Umluft