My Life, My Universe, My Everything

Glassdoor is a free service providing reviews, ratings and salary information about a range of companies, provided by people who work at the company. Certainly interesting when you prepare for a move or a salary negotiation.

I am an active Google Reader user and today I thought ‘What does the “Discover” button do?’. Rather than thinking about it for too long I just pressed the button and guess what, it discovered a few really interesting blogs based on my reading habits. There you go…

On Saturday, I went to the store to finally buy a new external drive. For 150€ I got a 500GB Sungoo NASD. While being there, I also picked up the new cat in town – Mac OS 10.5 named Leopard. Back home I installed the drive first. I connected it to my Mac and Win [...]

This can be cool stuff. Video Searching by Sight and Script Researchers have designed an automated system to identify characters in television shows, paving the way for better video search. Video Searching by Sight and Script

Jospeh Weizenbaum is a computing pioneer and known amongst many for his ELIZA project. Now there is a film about him: Weizenbaum. Rebel at Work.

Today I found the webcalldirect.com service. It allows you to make free calls, so they claim. I decided to try it out – and it worked – for about 5min I could chat with my parents, then we got disconnected. So I called again,… and again… All this without even registering.

Hi, I mentioned before that I use Google Reader for reading some blogs. Today I found that Google allows me to share my “starred items” with you. Thus, I made them publicly available and also added a script to this site showing the last 10 items in the sidebar.

Today I spent a lot of time on the web and I stumbled upon a lot of things: First, there is the “Get Things Done” line I followed. Starting from the book by David Allen I quickly came to Sylvia’s GTD Homepage and then to the GTD with Gmail Whitepaper. I was previously looking for [...]

In October 2003 I helped my dad to set up a Raid system using SuSE 8.2. I wrote up my experiences and published it on my old website. I was very surprised but also happy to find out that it also helped others. A few days ago I received an email asking me for permission [...]