Um den Ruf dieses Blogs als musikalisches Leitmedium weiter zu festigen¹, gibt es heute eine Bandvorstellung:

Es geht um Schicht im Schacht, die unplugged Cover-Band aus dem Pott. Schicht im Schacht sind:

• Alexander Holtkamp (Tasten, Vocals)
• Michael Brandenburg (Bass)
• Mark Bergmann (Percussions, Drums)
• Jens Schwiderski (Gitarre, Lead Vocals)

Ob Hochzeiten, Geburtstage, Partys, Stadt- und Dorffeste, die Jungs spielen für euch ihr Repertoire aus Charts, Pop, Rock, Schlager.

Eine Website sowie ein Demovideo sind derzeit in Arbeit. Bis dahin gibt es alle Infos auf der oben verlinkten Facebook-Seite der Band.

Anstehende Auftritte:

• 28.9.2012
  • Berufsausstand und Berufseinstand Feuerwehr
• 24.11.2012
  • Dip’n Dive and Friends. Auftritt mit Dip’n Dive in der Hako Event Arena in Wuppertal
• 2013
  • Musikmeile Erkrath

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 06. Mai bis zum 24. Mai:

• Phabricator - is an open source collection of web applications which makes it easier to scale software companies.
• YouTubeTime - creates a link to a YouTube video where you set the start time.
• Meld - is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. Meld helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and has support for many popular version control systems.
• NaClBox - Play classic DOS games in Chrome
• Freesound.org - is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds. Browse, download and share sounds.
• RStudio - is a free and open source integrated development environment (IDE) for R. You can run it on your desktop (Windows, Mac, or Linux) or even over the web using RStudio Server.
• Scrapy - is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing.
• Shell.FM - is a lightweight, console-based player for Last.FM radio streams. It’s pretty small (the binary is currently about 70K, or about 60K when stripped) and it has most features the official player has, if not even a few more.
• Trollop - is a commandline option parser for Ruby that gets out of your way. One line of code per option is all you need to write. For that, you get a nice automatically-generated help page (fit to your screen size!), robust option parsing, command subcompletion, and sensible defaults for everything you don’t specify.
• The Hacker Shelf - Community-curated collection of free books for the intellectually curious.

Wir werden die nächsten Tage in den Niederlanden, genauer in Lauwersoog im Landal Natuurdorp Suyderoogh verbringen.

Vermutlich wird es dort auch dieses Internet geben, so dass wir bestimmt ein oder zwei Fotos posten können. Wir hoffen auf eine erholsame und sonnige Zeit am Meer und viel Spaß mit dem immer mobileren Nachwuchs.

Bis dahin, be good, take care.

Das hier scheint mir eine wirklich irre kleine Kiste zu sein:

Für 70 Dollar ein Minority Report User Interface? Count me in!

Ich weiß zwar bisher noch nicht wirklich, was ich damit dann veranstalten würde, aber das schaut einfach so cool aus.

Etwas mehr zu dem Leap gibt es bei Engadget zu bestaunen.

(via: the Tao of Mac)

Life is more, than just a few data points posted to the web by the press of a button. Pushed out to the world by a script, a bot, an app or whatever you like to call it. Passed through countless servers, switches, routers and other appliances. Reaching it’s destination on the web, getting examined through your eyes, by your brain.

But you can’t see my impression of the public moment I choose to show to the world¹. Let me show you what I mean…

Foursquare checkin

What you see:

What you don’t see:

Seeing my family, everybody having a good time, the taste of the famous Wolperdinger, kids playing…

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 15. April bis zum 05. Mai:

• Sidekick - is an application that automatically updates your laptop settings based on where you are. Just install the app, configure the places that you frequent, and never fuss with your settings again!
• PGFPlots - draws high–quality function plots in normal or logarithmic scaling with a user-friendly interface directly in TeX.
• vtclock - a text-mode full-screen digital clock for the terminal.
• Gaskit - a git-backed issue tracker. It uses a branch in your local git database to store the tickets.
• Send to Kindle for Mac - allows Mac users to wirelessly send personal documents to their Kindles via drag-and-drop in the Dock or within the app itself.
• Console2 - is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles…
• DejaVu Fonts - are a font family based on the Vera Fonts. Its purpose is to provide a wider range of characters while maintaining the original look and feel through the process of collaborative development (see authors), under a Free license.
• Generic Colouriser - is yet another colouriser for beautifying your logfiles or output of commands.
• csync - is a file synchroniser… You can use csync for different things. The intention is to provide Roaming Home Directories for Linux but you can use it to synchronize your music collection or create a backup of a directory.
• OpenPhoto - lets you aggregate, archive, organize your photos using your personal cloud accounts such as Dropbox or Amazon S3.

As I said, there were a few nuisances with this new shiny blogging engine¹:

• No queue
• No automatic tweets
• No automatic Quicklinks posts

In this post I’ll look at this Twitter thing.

I want, that a new tweet gets tweeted each time I publish a new post to instant-thinking.de. While running on Wordpress, a nice plugin handled this for me. But, well, there are probably a few thousand other ways to do this, even for a static HTML-site.

One of the easiest surely is Twitterfeed. Just point this free service at your RSS-feed and let it forward your postings to Twitter and/or Facebook. They even got some tracking going on.

Another candidate is 2. This service allows it to define events, which trigger actions like mails, tweets or facebook posts and you can do some really awesome things with it.

But I did it yet another way, by using a tiny Ruby script which lives on the Mac mini at home. If you’re interested in the nitty gritty details, be sure to follow me after the click…

Heute vor zwei Jahren haben Kathi und ich geheiratet.

Ich wünsche der besten Ehefrau der Welt und mir eine wundervolle baumwollene Hochzeit¹ und freue mich auf das nächste Jahr im aufregenden Hafen der Ehe.

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 07. April bis zum 15. April:

• Zelda Mystery of Solarus DX - is set to be a direct sequel to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the SNES, using the same graphics and game mechanisms.
• How to learn Emacs - This guide is aimed at computer programmers who want to master the GNU Emacs text editor.
• LaTeX Templates - providing heavily commented, easy to understand, templates for a diversity of document types. It is my hope that this website will decrease frustration, increase the use of LaTeX and provide a generally useful service to all who are interested.
• Data Analysis For Politics and Policy - In this book, Yale researcher Edward R. Tufte demonstrates the opportunities as well as the challenges of using data to help inform decisions of public policy.
• chafifi - stores hashes of files in .hashes files and compares them the next time it’s run.
• fbcmd - is a command line interface (CLI) for facebook.
• CloudPull - seamlessly backs up your Google account to your Mac. It supports Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Google Reader. By default, the app performs backups every hour, and maintains old point-in-time snapshots of your accounts for 90 days.
• Tiny Issue - Simple Issue Tracking for Teams.
• Flutter - lets you play and pause music in iTunes or Spotify using hand gestures. No Kinect-style hardware required: the app uses your webcam.
• dfc - is a tool similar to df that displays filesystem usage, with pretty graphs and colours.

Die Bild, dieses offenbar immer noch unverdienterweise meistgekaufte Blatt in dieser Republik, wird am 23. Juni 2012 60 Jahre alt. Aus diesem Anlass will der Springer-Verlag in einer gigantischen Werbeaktion jedem Haushalt in Deutschland sein Produkt schenken.

Ich will das nicht. Ich will die Bild nicht kaufen, ich will sie auch nicht geschenkt. Ich würde nicht mal Fisch drin einwickeln. Wenn ich sie im Straßenbild sehe flattert diese kleine Ader auf meiner Stirn ein kleines bisschen.

Das Teil hat nichts in meinem Briefkasten verloren.

Daher habe ich an dieser Aktion teilgenommen und mir per Mail den Empfang der Bild verbeten. Am 23. Juni 2012 oder an irgend einem anderen Tag. So wie bisher knapp 70.000 andere.

Den Einsatz dieses Unterlassungsschreibens erwäge ich noch…

(via: powerbook_blog, Schockwellenreiter)