Tag: me

Getting paid to explore

i’m ecstatic about a possibility that i might get paid to write about emerging technologies (which i enjoy to check out anyway). a friend at CNET hooked me up with the right person to talk to, i’m curious where this will lead to 🙂

Walmart

it will be all over when walmart starts spreading like a cancer in europe. by buying their useless crap, gullible consumers will be assimilated. mark my words 🙂 i’m now a sucker for foosball tables.

Rich languages

i got interested in the question which language was generally considered to be the richest in the world.

maybe it is sanskrit:

Sanskrit is the richest language in the world. There are often double or triple meanings in 1 word, so it is a very difficult language to learn, but a very expressive one.

or maybe it is english:

The Oxford English Dictionary has 615K words. 200k are in common use. Compare this to German, which has a total vocabulary of 185K words, and French, with fewer than 100K. There is no doubt that English has the most varied vocabulary in the world, but most use a very small portion of it to express themselves.

i have found myself in trouble discussing some concepts in my native language when i could explain them much better in english 🙂

K-pop

After a month of dirty radio I’m now listening to korean pop from Mukulcast

the shit hits the fan

first, my publisher starts breathing down my neck about my deadline, then my employer involves me in a complex social engineering operation, then my fucking moron provider screws up the gallery of a friend. in other news, the pm and a board member fought it out on irc, and my roommate tracked the fugitive down.

google rank

i’m not sure what it proves, but having twice as many hits on google for myself than the dean of my department at university of zurich and more than the major of zurich is a good feeling.

run.

Srawuth Zoss i will bust you thai boy. trust me.

tight

______________________________________________________
Flight: 	Delta Air Lines flight 866 (Non-Stop)
Depart: 	San Francisco, CA (SFO) - TERMINAL 1
"		Fri, Oct 11 at 16:40
Arrive: 	Salt Lake City, UT (SLC) - TERMINAL UNIT 2
"		Fri, Oct 11 at 19:16
Seat: 		25A (Boeing 737-800 Jet)
Flight: 	Delta Air Lines flight 3941 operated by SKYWEST AIRLINES
(Non-Stop)
Depart: 	Salt Lake City, UT (SLC) - TERMINAL UNIT 2
"		Fri, Oct 11 at 20:40
Arrive: 	Colorado Springs, CO (COS) - Terminal Information Unavailable
"		Fri, Oct 11 at 22:11
Seat: 		Check in at Airport for Seat Assignment. (Canadair Regional
Jet)
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Flight: 	Delta Air Lines flight 3938 operated by SKYWEST AIRLINES
(Non-Stop)
Depart: 	Colorado Springs, CO (COS) - Terminal Information Unavailable
"		Mon, Oct 14 at 16:20
Arrive: 	Salt Lake City, UT (SLC) - TERMINAL UNIT 2
"		Mon, Oct 14 at 17:54
Seat: 		Check in at Airport for Seat Assignment. (Canadair Regional
Jet)
Flight: 	Delta Air Lines flight 1893 (Non-Stop)
Depart: 	Salt Lake City, UT (SLC) - TERMINAL UNIT 2
"		Mon, Oct 14 at 18:50
Arrive: 	San Francisco, CA (SFO) - TERMINAL 1
"		Mon, Oct 14 at 7:48
Seat: 		16E (Boeing 737-300 Jet)
______________________________________________________

will be a tight 12 hours before i fly back to switzerland on the 15th at 7:50.

CLR and WSDL for CMS

To really leverage the functionality of CMS, they need to expose their methods / APIs as WSDL. This in turn will allow to use the office web services toolkit to talk to the cms from inside office. this would be a good starting point for the open bar concept.

further into the future, open source needs the equivalent of a clr to allow deep integration between languages. parrot and mono might provide starting points.

Do something for peace

I found the perfect answer for any more good cause chain mails I receive. I will point the sender to masturbate for peace

With my left hand on my heart. And my right hand in my pants. – Pennsylvania