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There is an old saying "The journey is the reward". The journey of Christoph Rehage is such a journey. He started to walk from China to Germany. Albeit he didn´t walked the whole way, he walked 4646 km though China. The documented this distance in a really interesting video and an even more interesting blog:

A really handy video for people on regular business travel. When you meet a possible significant other, it´s useful to declare your love



PS: A more extensive love song generator is available on the website of the artist. Especially important ... a version in Quenya, the language of the elves

At last ... all the unsolved Rubik cubes out there have a chance to get back in their solved state:



Mom, Dad ... i need my cube next time i visit you

Just minutes after his inauguration, the website of the website was changed. Besides all the obvious changes there is a not so obvious change: Despite of having a more than 2400 lines long robots.txt the new one is just 2 lines long as Jason Kottke points out in "The country's new robots.txt file". While I suspect technical reasons for the long robots.txt at the old website, the new one is nevertheless a nice symbol for the nerdier people in the world.

In unserer Küche hier im Büro hat jemand gerade einen Fisch zubereitet, der eigentlich nur in Laboratorien der Klassifikation "Biosafety Level 4"verarbeitet, zubereitet und verzehrt werden darf. Der Gestank war zeitweise unbeschreiblich. Sollte der Herr auf dem Heimweg in der Hamburger S-Bahn rülpsen, wird wahrscheinlich ABC-Alarm ausgeloesst.

Das ist aber garnicht das interessanteste: Mein Kollege Gerd konnte aus dem ständigen Fundus schwedischer Eigenarten zu diesem Anlass etwas noch viel schlimmeres beschreiben: Surströmming. Ich wusste bis eben auch nicht, was das ist. Nach der Lektüre dieses Blogartikels weiss ich das. Lesebefehl

It´s 2009. At least in my timezone. Happy new year. There is a lot of uncertainity around because of the economic problems, the unsolved problems of this world. And many start this year with fears: But i found a good quote in this book, that fits into this sitation:

Your mission is the luminous path that you follow, no matter how dark the night around you.

You can´t change the world, but you can make the world at both sides of your path a less darker place.

Es kursieren ja viele Scherze ueber chinesische Schriftzeichen-Tattoos, die bei Chinesen nur zu lauten Gelächter führen, weil der des Chinesischen unkundige Träger nicht weiss, das sein Bein üble Beleidigungen über die Mutter und die weitere Sippschaft enthält (dieser Gag wurde mir mal von einer Sinologin erzaehlt) . Bei der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft hätte ich aber erwartet, das zumindest mal ein chinesischer Gastwissenschaftler sich das anguckt: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft wirbt für heiße Mädchen

Nice tool to find out the Myers-Briggs personality type of your blog. Or better: The personality type you show in your blog as it "reads" your blog: c0t0d0s0.org is an INTJ. Okay, this matches my own experiences with such tests - they sort me consistently in the INTJ or ENTJ groups

Soeben in der elterlichen Küche entdeckt....


(das sind viereckige Seelachsfilets ... kopfschuettel)

Clifford Stoll was the guy, who found some hackers hired by the KGB in his system 20 years ago. In computer security he is known for his book "The Cuckoo's Egg" (albeit it´s more a popular science book), which describes the hunt after the attackers. 2 years ago he held a presentation at TED. His style is a combination of Carl Sagan and Roger Rabbit (as a commentator at the TED site wrote) but it gives you many interesting insights. Really worth a look.

There is an factory installed barcode scanner in the the E71 (but you can install one on many mobiles with a camera). With this barcode you can encode your vCard in a way a camera phone is able to scan. So you can add it in a few seconds to your address book:


You will find the generator for such images at mobilecodes.nokia.com.

You may ask yourself as a liberal being, how someone can vote Republican. Or to ask the question in a german context: How someone can vote the CDU. Of course, the conservative being ask himself the same question with a reversed prefix. Jonathan Haidt did a really nice talk about this topic on TED.com: The real difference between liberals and conservatives:


This talk is a really good and insightful one. A must-see. Haidt advocates, that both sides have to exist, as both are nescessary in a society.

PS: One of the best lines - "Sport is to war as pornography is to sex" ... made my day ...

Kris zeigt in Mein privates Datawarehouse - Sparen mit MySQL wie man mit der CSV-Export-Funktion des Sparkassen-Homebankings, Mysql und einigen Gedanken sich ein eigenes Data Warehouse bauen kann, um die Geldsenken im eigenen Budget zu finden.

There is no award too unprobable to be not awarded. I found this in the gentlemens restroom at Victoria Station. Sorry for the blur, but i didn´t want to use the flash in a restroom