I'm currently toying with the ID3 tag specification and some libraries for purely geeky reasons. For those that don't know, ID3 tags are used to put such information as "artist" or "album name" into mp3 and other audio files ( Read more... )

Seems I'm slowing down with the blogging, once again ( Read more... )

This weekend, we've had a little get together in Manker, which is a village an hours drive outside of Berlin. HarryBunny's parents own a house there that is huge and in dire need of major renovation. Well, make that reconstruction. Harry's father has made this his retirement project, and so the house's condition is steadily improving ( Read more... )

Yesterday we had a movie evening at Amur's place. While most of the people saw Batman Begins on Amur's new BlueRay player I was preparing food, with help from Tacimur and Kebi, and closer to the finish line, from Amur aswell. Incredibly, after the 2:20h movie ended we weren't done, and so we had a bit of a hectic moment in the end. It worked out ( Read more... )

If you haven't seen Bolt yet, I'd recommend you do. The story is entirely too predictable, but other than that the movie is just great. Don't miss it! Oh, and see it in English if you can.

Visualizing numbers can be useful to get a better feeling for the underlying data.

Population: One. Gee, thanks. ;)

This weekend, I've been in a blacksmith workshop, smithing a knife blade.

( Details and pictures under the cut. )

Well, after my failure with AppleTalk I had a more successful evening today with subversion ( Read more... )

( How I did not get AFP to do what I want. Tech talk inside. )

On Tuesday we've had a movie evening. We've seen the Disney version of the Junglebook, which was great to watch again after such a long time. I didn't remember the big cats, Shir Khan and Bagheera, moving so fluently in that flick. Shir Khan in particular is expertly drawn and animated ( Read more... )