for future reference:
Creating Passionate Users: Better Beginnings: how to start a presentation, book, article…
Archive for October, 2006
Tomorrow in Riehen/Basel:
I’m a substitute for one of the Lauftreff teams. For the 4.9 km distance. My very first race.
See also this Wikipedia article on Ekiden races
Just got back from a beautiful, long weekend in Lisbon. It was great. Fairly warm. Although everybody was talking about “mau tempo”. It rained a lot on Sunday, but no problem for this northern light: I had all of my rain gear with me. Plus this kind of weather was great for a city trip. I spent a lot of time walking around with my gadget arm in click-ready mode. I’ll post one or two pics in the next couple of days.
i am tired… too tired to write an entry.
I agree with this gapingvoid post:
Publishing has just gotten faster, delete all the buzz words, and ignore the same old blogging discussions, and get moving…
Om Malik was wrong and the rumors were right:
Google purchases Youtube for 1.65 bn $.
Somehow I felt Google wouldn’t be put off by the copyright nightmare.
What’s next?
P.S. GooTube is already taken.
useful:
Megapixels Chart - although sizes in cm and DIN would be more helpful for Europe.
The weather turned out much better than forecast. I took this snapshot while sitting in the sun at Barfüsserplatz.
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything personal in my blog. Mostly because this isn’t a confessional blog. A couple of weeks ago I read thu all entries here at chiperoni.org. And I like the nice side-effect that I can hold onto a fleeting moment by documenting it in words (even if it’s just a link to the plug-in du jour). Time is flying so fast. And we need to spend our time savouring the moment.
Usually I just skim thru the weekly Duden email newsletter. Not today. Here’s a quote from today’s newsletter regarding the spelling of foreign (usually English) loan words in German:
Neue Rechtschreibung 2006 – Zusammengesetzte Fremdwörter
Zusammengesetzte Fremdwörter werden zusammengeschrieben. Besteht die Zusammensetzung aus Substantiven, kann zur besseren Lesbarkeit ein Bindestrich gesetzt werden:
- Desktoppublishing (auch: Desktop-Publishing)
- Airconditioning (auch: Air-Conditioning)
- Sciencefiction (auch: Science Fiction)
- Midlifecrisis (auch: Midlife-Crisis)Ist der erste Bestandteil ein Adjektiv, kann zusammengeschrieben werden, wenn die gemeinsame Hauptbetonung auf dem ersten Bestandteil liegt. Andernfalls gilt nur Getrenntschreibung:
- Longdrink oder Long Drink
- Hotspot oder Hot Spot
- Aber nur: High Fidelity, Electronic Commerce, Top TenBei Substantivierungen aus dem Englischen, die auf eine Verbindung aus Verb und Partikel (Adverb) zurückgehen, setzt man gewöhnlich einen Bindestrich; daneben ist auch Zusammenschreibung möglich:
- Black-out (auch: Blackout)
- Count-down (auch: Countdown)
- Kick-off (auch: Kickoff)
Weird. Anyway, who cares about spelling on a Friday evening…
A couple of links that crossed my paths this week:
- Indian Recipes - Chicken Curry
- Study on the number of unpaid parking tickets incurred by UN diplomats
- find code snippets (and passwords!) with Google Code Search
Buon weekend.
it’s official: September 2006 was (a lot) warmer than August 2006.
For the full comparison see:
SF METEO