Das neue Mickey-Maus-Betriebssystem in aller Munde. Trotzdem: Bis jetzt immer noch kein Hinweis darauf, what's under the hood of the Wiki Server and Blog Services.
Derweil teste ich Gutsy Gibbon. Macht Sinn so far.
2007-10-30 Apfelmann
2007-10-27 tu felix film austria
"Von den mehr als 6.000 österreichischen Filmschaffenden sind 70 Prozent arbeitslos."
via austrian-film.com.
2007-10-27 Bled Runner
Der Blade Runner heute morgen um 1 Uhr im Rahmen der Viennale im Gartenbaukino. Bereits eine Stunde vor Beginn wartet ein Lynchmob aufgeregt auf Restkarten. Unfassbar halte ich die allerletzte erhältliche Karte in Händen. Es folgen zwei Stunden perfektes, kristallklares, auraloses Digitalkino. Ein Film, der in jeder Richtung dieser Zeit entrückt zu sein scheint. Schön, dass es ihn gibt.
2007-10-16 Integration Assimilation
"29,6 Prozent der Befragten sprachen sich für die Abschiebung aller legal im Land lebenden Drittstaaten-Angehörigen aus."
via orf.at
2007-10-11 Donaudolls
Meinem Friseur war das auch neu: So offensiv wurde für ein Puff noch nicht Werbung gemacht.
2007-10-03 Ultima Online 10th Anniversary
Missed that: On September 25 Ultima Online had its 10th anniversary. I remember playing the game during my year of civil services extensively (and spending ridiculous amounts of money for playing it via ISDN). Those were the days...
My character was Shaman from Yew who joined the Guild of Freedom. The guild became the biggest community of german-speaking UO-players. From mid '98 I was responsible for the guild's webpage (today you would call it a social networking portal ;)).
2007-10-02 Motion Capture
"Their main stage utilizes more than 70 Vicon MX F40 cameras to capture full body and finger motions along with props, cameras and set pieces in a large capture volume 90'x45'x18' stage."
via vfxworld.com
Interesting PreVis-GameEngine-Context: Zviz: ILM Goes Interactive with Previs (=George Lucas wants a real-time previs system which could work as a learning environment too).
2007-10-02 Holy Grail of PIM
It's not that I found it yet. Just wanted to let you know of my status quo.
As much as I didn't like spending the money I was glad to have .mac's syncing capabilities for calendars and contacts. However, as my (digital) working environment changed significantly in the last month (switching from Mac only to a Mac/XP/Linux mixed setup) it's time to get rid of .mac. So far I haven't found a (free) one-has-it-all solution for PIM (PIM meaning PIM > Outlook).
Leo Sauermann's Gnowsis looks very promising and the concept is fantastic of course, however, I had no time yet to see if it's practically useful yet.
One thing I have in mind would be a microformats/AJAX/xmlrpc/API/etc. powered Wiki with focus on ease of use and service integration. The SemanticWiki implementations are heading in the right direction, but they still feel more like proofs of concept and not really usable in terms of usability.
That said, for the moment I decided to switch from one evil to many small little devils. Here's what I use for PIM for now.
Email & Task Management
Since two weeks it's GMail. Used Thunderbird with IMAP account before (which didn't allow me to do searches across multiple folders...). GMail's search is great, well, that's what their (still) famous for. For task management I'm currently trying out GTDInbox, a Firefox extension to implement GTD features within GMail. Works great so far.
Contacts
OS X's Address Book was my main repository before and I had web access via .mac. This was just working great. Since GMail's contact management capabilities still suck I just reencountered Plaxo. It let me import my OS X Address Book and is now syncing with Gmail (plus Google Calendar). Xing is still just cool for showing off your profile, concerning contact management I think it's rather useless. What makes Plaxo great is that you can still import and update contact information even if the person has no Plaxo account (as far as I remember Xing requires your contacts to register...).
Calendar
Switched from iCal to Google Calendar. There was a time when I needed the offline support...
Others
del.icio.us for (public) bookmarks. Bloglines (still) for feeds. PhpWiki as a blogging tool and (public & private) think box. Tupalo.com for locations. Upcoming.com for events (I love shnitzl.org, but it doesn't allow me to subscribe to my events in a calendar application). Twitter for micromessages. soup.io for aggregating my own feeds.
If you're into this kind of stuff, here are my accounts at the mentioned services. Feel free to ping me.
- http://pulse.plaxo.com/pulse/profile/show/90196001163/
- https://www.xing.com/profile/Walter_Rafelsberger
- http://del.icio.us/walterra
- http://www.bloglines.com/public/walterra
- http://tupalo.com/users/24
- http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/85331/
- http://twitter.com/walterra
- http://walterra.soup.io
And, last but not least: my Moleskine.
2007-10-01 MMORPG Social Networks
2007-10-01 Findory Fades
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