honestly foolish - without guarantee

Was seid das hier?

2007-08-31T21:15:00.000+02:00

Wie hat mein Freund Kumpfi einmal in einem Interview gesagt:

Wir sind Alle nur... ein Furz im Weltall.

Mach's gut Ilya.

Wir ritten auf dem Trojanischen Gaul wie Paul Schockemöhle

2007-08-30T12:48:00.000+02:00

Das Bundesministerium für Inneres (BMI) sollte lieber die Finger von Dingen lassen, wovon sie keine Ahnung haben.

Dirk spricht es hier in seinem Blog heute auch nochmal an, deutlicher und natürlich absolut to-the-bottom beim CCC selbst: CCC | Online-Durchsuchung bei der Bundesregierung

Es gibt hier und da - ganz selten - Zeiten, da fühlt man sich von der aktuellen Bundesregierung verschaukelt. Union will da ja weiter vorpreschen, SPD ist zwar zögerlich, wird aber auch nicht die Bremse spielen wollen, und die Qualität von dem Trojaner wird so mieserabel sein, dass er ruckzuck von kriminellen Anonymous' als Huckepack Transportmittel benutzt wird.

Na dann mal man-tau!

Feel the power of the lulz side

2007-08-28T17:55:00.000+02:00

Wtf - had a discurs at the weekend, with a very good friend. Got some recent updates on the other side of the net, and just throw some links at you. Take a bottle of not too shaby wine, some weirdo music background and surf thru the Lulzicon-preps 2007. If not, just keep ignoring it - fine anyway ;-)

4chan - Encyclopedia Dramatica

Anonymous - Encyclopedia Dramatica

O rly - Encyclopedia Dramatica

4chan.org

What wer who Kto Wem Was?

2007-08-28T10:07:00.000+02:00

Ich denke, also bin ich - ich war nich, also spinn ich?
War, wo ich nich war, bin wo ich vorher war und später bin.
Wo komm' wir her, wo gehn wir wech?

Kumpels sind auf nem Roadtrip, Loveparade war ohne Motte in Essen.
Milch, Käse und Quark werden teurer, Brüste ohne Ende bewegen sich bei elektronischer Musik.
Wetter is schon wieder nich mehr Summer-like, Arbeit schwankt zwischen superb und auf den Sack.

Später vielleicht mehr, auch wenn unnötig.

Simpsons Movie

2007-07-29T22:47:00.001+02:00

Not the best of all episodes, but certainly loads of hilarious moments, overall story fits - and a movie, where I'd never get sick from endless sequels.

Buy the ticket and watch it - UCI KINOWELT Düsseldorf

Actually I don't know about Matt Groening's opinion, whether it's alright to download the english movie once of spent $$$ for 2 tickets. Rather a good interview question, no influence to piracy in this blog *cough*!

Summer certainly starting on Saturday

2007-07-12T17:05:00.000+02:00

35° this weekend im Rheinland - wooHoo!

Wem gehört die Fahrrad auf die Hof?
...

Iiiiich!

The Web 1994

Floor it - speed up time converting MPEG4 / H.264 videos

2007-07-08T12:52:00.001+02:00

I have a couple of very good HD videos on my server, downloaded trailers, teasers, homegrown, demos, documentaries. But not all of them are in MPEG4 or the more optimal H.264.

How to get to play it on your iPod, PS3, PSP etc?

Get the Pro Version of Quicktime
Get the free Videora converters from Redkawa
Invest into a Dual-Core Processer / loads of RAM
Spend power and time to get your video converter slower then realtime

Now the new thing is - there is an article in the current "video" Magazine 7/2007, talking about a USB stick which hardware-accelerates the converting-process. They've tested it in practice and had a MPEG-2 video converted once with and w/o the stick.
From 31 minutes, it was done in 8 (!).

Unfortunately it seems that you can only use only their converting software - but let's see if it's worth it. You can get more info here, there is a slap rating at Amazon, but I still just ordered it - if the result is not promising, just sending it back. Will put a review here later.

Thiefs in town

2007-05-20T15:17:00.000+02:00

Some asshole stole my car-antenna, again! Who is this god-damn son of a ... who can't affort the 10 bucks by his own and steal it from my alfa instead?! If you see a guy with an antenna in his trousers, please kick his ass on behalf of me.

Holiday and Diving

2007-05-20T08:51:00.000+02:00

Back from our holidays - almost compensated the jetlag by 12h sleep. Missed Ray's wedding party. Who wants to know what we expirienced, don't be shy - give our travel-blog a visit.

Black tuesday in Germany - 3rd of october

2006-10-02T18:18:00.000+02:00

I am becoming 31 tomorrow - at the day of german unity at 1990 I had my 15th - that was half of a life ago, and I give a fuck. I like my age - and everybody else who likes me.
It seems, german people don't like the 3rd of october to be a public holiday, but they wanna stick that it stays free (even though noone likes to pardy about it).

I will make a pardy tomorrow => Beer starting from 12am, hope to have the last not later then 8pm, as the 4th is not free (yet).

Hooraysen
A 30-year old

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Let's go for a ride to Waldorf - what's all about that School type anyway?

2006-10-02T18:01:00.000+02:00

I used to be together with a former waldorf-pupil once a long while ago. She was very intelligent, interesting - and eurythmic. Not only with her body, but with her mind. It was a very fascinating time, and once again I stepped over an article on this background at wikipedia, very comprehensive research and references about the Rudolf-Steiner-Schule, english Waldorf School, Steiner School, french École Waldorf, dutch Vrijeschool.
before I found an official list about an online celebrity-list of "The International List of Famous Waldorf Alumni". It's funny if you browser thru the list and mumble to yourself "... d'oh, that was obvious... , cosma, ah, sure she is.., Kinski - ha, I knewit", but it has a certain taint, better say charisma / Karma to be a waldorf alumnus. You either become very popular due to your especial abilities - or you become social teacher.
That girl quitted on me - no big deal, and regarding her career I assume she is somewhere on this list now. If I just remember her name... "jo.. johan, hmmm ---- "

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German Entry: Nachgeburt zur letzten Pimp-my-Pulp Party

2006-09-29T15:22:00.000+02:00

Aufgepasst!

Da ich hier nun blind fremden Content einstelle, mach ich den ganz klein und unscheinbar - denn eigentlich mag ich solche Trinksprüche nicht. Da Ric aber so nett war und von unserem letzten Gelage doch ein paar digitale Erinnungen übersandt, hier ein kleiner Ausschnitt seiner kleinen Sammlung und ein holterdipolter Spruch von der längsten Theke der Welt:

Eine Büffelherde bewegt sich nur so schnell wie der langsamste Büffel.

Wenn die Herde gejagt wird, sind die langsamsten und schwächsten Tiere am Schluss. Diese werden zuerst getötet. Diese natürliche Selektion dient der ganzen Herde, weil durch die regelmäßige Auslese der schwächsten Mitglieder die Schnelligkeit und Gesundheit der Gemeinschaft erhalten oder sogar verbessert wird.

Ganz ähnlich kann das menschliche Gehirn nur so schnell arbeiten, wie die langsamsten Zellen die elektrischen Signale passieren lassen.

Neueste epidemiologische Studien haben gezeigt, dass durch übermäßigen Alkoholkonsum zwar Hirnzellen abgetötet werden, dabei aber die langsamsten und schwächsten Zellen zuerst angegriffen werden.

Regelmäßiger Alkoholkonsum hilft also, schwache Hirnzellen zu eliminieren und macht das Hirn zu einer immer schnelleren und effizienteren Maschine.

Die Resultate dieser umfangreichen Studie bestätigen und bekräftigen den ursächlichen Zusammenhang zwischen Wochenendpartys und beruflichen Leistungen. Es erklärt auch, warum Berufstätige wenige Jahre nach dem Verlassen der Uni und dem Heiraten mit der Leistung der Studenten nicht mehr mithalten können.

Nur wer sich weiterhin dem "haltlosen" Alkoholkonsum hingibt, kann das intellektuelle Niveau halten, welches er während seiner Studienzeit erreicht hat.

Also, dies ist ein Ruf zu den Waffen. Wenn unser Land seinen technologischen Vorsprung verliert, dürfen wir den Kopf nicht in den Sand stecken! Lasst uns zurück in die Kneipen gehen und wieder zechen, unsere Arbeitgeber und unser Land brauchen unsere Höchstleistungen und wir sollten uns Karrierechancen nicht verbauen. Lasst uns mit der Flasche leben und unser Möglichstes geben.

Leitet diese Botschaft an alle eure Freunde, Bekannte und Kollegen weiter, die unter Umständen in Gefahr sind, ihre Leistungsfähigkeit zu verlieren.

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Console games revival - SEGA / NINTENDO / SONY / MICROSOFT

2006-09-24T02:58:00.000+02:00

Have you ever played console games extensivly before the Sony Playstation was hitting the ground? To be honest, I started quite early with my bro' Dennis, and we received a brand-new NES at christmas somewhen in the 80's. It was the most sucessful home-entertainment released by Nintendo Japan (aka Famicom over there), and my parents presented it to us with the awesome package of soccer / tetris and Mario World.
The cartdridge system was very different and straight forward compared to the Commodore 64 (C<64 Load "blablub" ,8,1 was covered by a pray that the thing still works fine), and thats the time my console adventure started.
Followed by a SuperNES later on brought an even more exciting game-play. To list the extraordinary gaming expiriences we had with this one would burst this blog-entry, but everbody in my age knew at least 10 of the games available there. Noone knew something about HD-TV display or 3D games, but while Commodore started to conquer the world with the Amiga series, the SNES had a couple of the most intelligent and addictive games I ever owned.

The fortunate guys owning both of the systems of Nintendo and the SEGA Mega Drive had a respectful amount of killer-apps, if you were bold enough to save some money, a purchase of the first copy-stations really brought a load of games beeing able to catch you in front of the screen all available time. The follow-up console-war between SEGA and Nintendo was a hard one, whereby SEGA always had an advantage of tackling the target-group with the coolest Arcade games and Sonic the Hedgehog and Nintendo more focussed on Miyamoto's most popular invention Mario. This little fella is still more popular then any other video-game character, first time visible in the Arcade classic Donkey-Kong.

As soon SEGA released their SEGA Saturn to start the 3D console-generation, Nintendo kinda ran behind still developing on a secret wonder somewhere in the hidden areas. While thinking about games like Virtua Fighter or SEGA Rally, Daytona and Decathlete, I remember my subjective support to this console-revolutions against the upcoming competitor Sony.
As most of the current Video-Gamers know, Sony started to understand the potencial in this industry and the sucess of the Sony Playstation is going into it's 3rd generation right now. Nintendo finally came up with their Nintendo64, which really killed me with Mario64 - this game really got it all. But the step to still believe into the cartridge system against built-in CD-roms (possibly to beat copy-mechanism), it didn't allow fullscreen movies and intros, and the small (first) 64MB of space even showed the weakness in sound and music.

The Playstation was pushed into the market with a huge Publisher support, meanwhile the only technical advantage against the SEGA Saturn was the additional ALPHA-channel support of showing transparency (Wipeout is a good example, as this appeared on both consoles). Somewhen later I purchased the japanes first version of the SEGA Dreamcast, with new Arcade classic games such as Virtua Figther 3 and a newer SEGA Rally on it. I still think that the Dreamcast games had a way more elegant and powerful amount of releases, but Sony was just more intelligent in Marketing and Networking.
The SONY Playstation 2 and the new Nintendo Gamecube (finally own Gigabyte CD-Format, but again not copy-able) was the final deathblow against SEGA.

Even though Sony obviously won this clash of the console, SEGA is still one of the best Video-Game Publisher on all top-of-the-nodge consoles at the moment.
Meanwhile Microsoft with their XBOX and the 360 is a very recent one, lot's of the older generation buddies still look back into the history and would die to get back to the old times of pixel-2D scroller. Who ever wants to have a small leap back in time shouldn't hesitate to check out the page I posted in the title-link. Or just play a bit of one of the best video games ever (Zelda is just too time-consuming ;)

Have fun, and shall the old times never die in our memory!

Super Mario Bros 3

Free Games Online

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German entry: Grabtänze der Musikindustrie auf der Popkommsen

2006-09-21T15:09:00.000+02:00

Der Chaos Computer Club macht auf der Popkomm von sich hören. Folgende Song s werden unter der Creative Commons Lizenz zum freien Download / als CD angeboten, um unsere klagende Musikindustrie ein wenig zu dissen:

CCC | Boykott der Musikindustrie ist absolut hörenswert - Boykott der Musikindustrie ist absolut hörenswert

September 20, 2006 (Chaostreff Regensburg).
Unbedingt auschecken.

Gestern hab ich Gulli auf der OMD getroffen (womit?) Gute Messe, viel los, später mehr...
Bolko

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WoW meets myspace.com - MTV establishes OnlineWorld

2006-09-18T21:12:00.000+02:00

MTV is about to follow the big footprints Web 2.0 online communities such as youtube / myspace / TheSims. With Virtual Laguna Beach, the formaly most hippest teenage-network tries to catch up on the loosing target-group and finding new ways to bound their people into it.
As online-communities are supposed to have a strong addictive attraction, it is proven to make a respectful amount of dollars by either selling it to a bigger holding or trying to get your advertisers connected to it.

The expiriement MTV tries to do is beeing a pioneer to establish new selling channels, as the article on the topic explains. Offering a gold- or platinum membership to visit nightclubs or bying online property is not new though, as ebay shows in lots of auctions, like this $1000 for a WoW character. But to let Consumers & Customers meeting in an online environment, following up with a multi-channel market to buy their stuff offline afterwards is kinda new to me.

This obiously will start with a bunch of hip and very modern huge advertising firms - most I know don't even trust and fully get the CPM / CPC / CPA deal and still mistrusting the online-advertising. Even though most spent only a tiny percentage of the media-budget into online (~ 3- 5% avg) against the huge $ which is still invested into offline such as print / Tv / Radio, the recent ongoing boom in search is strangely attracting more and more advertisers each day. As online-statistics say, even the click-fraud is beeing ignored by most of them, making GYM (googleyahoomsn) and SEO such a success.

Now starting to place Ads into a virtual life-environment, counting online-purchases and somehow following the brand-sucess and the offline shopping tour later on (if some will be able to leave the office-chair anyway), it needs a whole new approach of counting-measurement and royality contracts. But no doubt ingame advertising will be the next boom, fully behavioural targeted, embedded into an adventure where most human are spending more time then in front of the TV or reading a newspaper, will still have to go a long road to insert trustworthy and efficient relationship between publisher & advertisers.

The OMD fair - biggest online-advertising in germany - offers a congress on wednesday about ingame-advertising, and you'll definitialy meet me there. However, I still stay away of MMORPGs as it's - as stated above - highly addicts onliner and consumes time as a gigantic black hole.

Keep you posted -- tomorrow night is our big OMD party, followed by 2 exhausting days on our stand. More likely I am not able to post early, but as soon as I can.
Daniel

Sunday headache missing - great meeting friends again

2006-09-17T16:28:00.000+02:00

So - finally we've been boozed yesterday as I seeked out for this occasion anyway. Still find myself bit confused, fortunatly no headache at all, even though we had Wodka-Orange, Pernod-Coke, Brandy and a respectful amount of pure Absinth.

The result was extremly expiriencing after the walk over to the pulp at arround 1am. My GF said I was far out, we lost us from time to time in the disco, even though I don't like that place so much and prefer smaller places. But at this level of alcohol and with a nice environment of people (thx to Hardy, Oli & GF, Stefan & GF, Claudio, Raffi Raffsen, short visit by Christian and mentally present: Eikon) even the Pulp was fun. Why and Where Philson was missing I am still wondering.

They played suprisingly good music (I think I remember), danced a lot, met some guys from work and somewhen Ksenia pulled me out of my trance. We had a very good time, and prefered to pick a cab home with Stef's older brother alex and his GF (gosh - where are all the girlfriends coming from? I already found out once that in my environment of friends almost noone is married, even though we're about to be all in the 30s!? That needs to get a seperate blogentry somewhen, but now the fish is about to be fried! Bon apetite - meanwhile feel free to learn how to piss and check out this great video. Layed on the floor laughing!

Die fabelhafte Welt des Eikon: 23 und kein Ende

2006-09-16T15:15:00.000+02:00

illuminati_LH
Originally uploaded by Hakezuba.

As Marcel likes to go paranoid on the illuminati from time to time, I'd like to give him some more material - found in my laptopbag the attached snippet from Lufthansa flight at Diana's Birthday this year. O_o

She has all reason still beeing mad on me! If you like the - 23 -, give Eikon or Pottpoet a visit:
Manual trackback:

Die fabelhafte Welt des Eikon: 23 und kein Ende

Nichts ist so wie es scheint

Pre-Weekend eve

2006-09-15T23:39:00.000+02:00

Here we go - I just came back from a trip to london to meet my new manager, parallel trying to fix a way to unoptimized strategic project going to be dumped to the toilet. Possibly this means weekend work for me and Ksenia (psst, she doesn't know about her luck yet) to catch up on our lost time, but as we're all pro-active and very responsive consultants, a short-termed project relief does not fuck us up.

My eyes still pain, it seems I really have an awkward allergic reaction to my lenses suddenly, and I AM MISSING MY GUYS!!! I still wanna get boozed with them, but now it's somehow to late to get them invited right now - gosh, that sucks.

To bring me up and running to enjoy the weekend again, I've created my pernod / table water right now and do some chakaaaah-stuff with the following flash-movie!

Hopefully seeing you guys at the weekend, everybody else: Let's meet next week at the OMD convention, I am really looking forward to our party on tuesday night :)

Enjoying one of the last sunny summer days

2006-09-13T17:16:00.000+02:00

My good friend Laser-Arne posted the following pictures, before going to say good-bye to his Job and his assigned laptop. I am soon going to say goodbye to the current working day, as the sun is still shining - even if the weather-forecasting said something else today.
So after a long nap in the office today

cause it was so exhausting to read all these terrible articles about job-efficiency, blogging on the working-place, surfing privatly on the internet and beeing even fired of you're catched once, we better get layed of cause laughing about fakes like this

and instead of going to a meeting or even fucking boring party like this girl supposely is vistiting at the moment

we are gearing up to visit the ratinger-street in Duesseldorf, like on almost each wednesday. You can meet various of easy people there, drinking a huge amount of beer, standing in hundreds on the street and preparing themself for the weekend. Opa Kanne is greeting us

and wishing the best to have fun - me too! Take care everybody
Daniel

A post not only for Bush and the pope

2006-09-12T18:06:00.000+02:00

But there are other things in this live: You remember when you dive down into an article, a soap, a documentation or just stare to something? Deep inside of you, most of the people would pay a lot to carry an endless roll of plastic with them, build like this:

At least some of us may end up beeing finally able to quit smoking.

Some very beautiful pictures I found on the GEO-pages, expressing the colorful world were living in. Still enough time to check out the recent stories like the Bush-speech about 9/11, the Pope-speeches about us christians and the fraud-news about lonelygirl15, without any comment from my side, but influencing all the world in a very short-term.

What impresses me a bit more is fiddling arround with del.icio.us - feel free to add me, I'd be very thankful for your new bookmarked links mate!
my del.icio.us

Have a good and sunny day!
Hakki

Some pictures grabbed from moscow metro

2006-09-11T21:02:00.000+02:00

Some funny pictures to end a stressful working day: Check out the Blog of englishrussia.com, and enjoy a collage of day-to-day adventures in the metro. I can confirm that you see such things almost each day, especially at the weekend, as I travelled to Saint Petersburg on a regular bases and had my expirience in that metro as well.
Even though the comments on the blog are quite rude, it stays funny somehow. The russians are not all drunk each day, the amount of people is just incredibly high, and the drunks are not staying at home all day like in germany for instance.

And some comment from my own expirience: It happened so often that me alone or with my friends we woke up early in the morning at the end-station somewhere in Dortmund or cologne, far away from home with terrible headache. Possibly the team-sleep looked kinda different, but not less effective.

RedBull Flyday in Cologne & bye bye

2006-09-10T18:15:00.000+02:00

Today we've been in cologne at the Red Bull Flugtag. This fun-competition usually gather a lot of people, as you can see on my own later pictures. The purpose of it is is as old as RedBull itself, crashing your handcrafted Tim - homeimprovement King - flying device into the lake. As the weather was pretty sunny and I've been awake way to early again, we left to cologne to see these guys once live.

It was really crowed, entrance free but the beer expansive. Presumably I need to get used back to the european prices of high-loanded hired laborers. There wasn't that much action anyway, and these things rarely glide more then 5m. Still fun somehow, but not long enough. If you're still interested or pretending to be Tim Allen, you might give the organizer-website a visit and inform yourself, where the event is taking place next time.

Another competition with bigger audience took place in italy today, with more fateful result. Michael Schumacher won in Monza, and published his final decision to quit racing after this championship 2006. Thats a big slap for thousands of fans in Italy, Germany and perhaps other places. Even though some guys may find Formula 1 boring and their stars decadent & arrogant, the sportsman Schumacher was probably one of the greatest we all ever known. Actually I am not a big fan of him by myself, but all he achieved in his long-lasting career, he fought out hard and by himself (with big support by his family I assume).

An opposite but good example of how you can raise in your career, falling up the ladder with the relationship of your family behind the scene, you may check out here in the following video - very funny.

Have a nice sunday everybody,
Daniel

Our Travel Log opened

2006-09-09T14:55:00.000+02:00

The first draft is online, and I like it. Feel free to give our new Blog Holiday Diary by Ksenia & Daniel a visit. Step by step we'll post our journey here as promised, and the first day already made it into.
Meanwhile the weather in germany seems to give us a hard time to spend in front of the computer, I will leave the desk now and start to get myself used to the environment outside, without balinesian folks & travellers arround. The last two days in the office were kinda strange, the jetlag keeps bothering me a bit and I fell asleep yesterday way to early.
Unfortunatly we've missed Eikon's birthday party and a visit to the hundermeister, which I find more then a pity. Hope you guys accept our apologize and give us another chance to pick up on that again.

If you're staying in front of your computer, probably you wanna checkout a video-snipped of the recent air-guitar competition in Finland. Let there be rock! Or let her fall -> Strip-Bl00per

And the final bummer: Back in germany

2006-09-07T13:40:00.000+02:00

honestly we're sad, but however: Back home in germany, back on broadband and able to end my intermediate postings finally with the first picture of us. We arrived at Frankfurt and picked the next ICE to Duisburg.

So far so good, we're at work and I feel like 8pm already now. Curious about my body at 8pm local time.

Picking up emails right now, my outlook doesn't respond as quick as I hope to, the rules are blockin my whole machine! I need a new laptop, time for a talk with my boss anyway. I am looking forward to start serious diary backward about the hols on weekend, hopefully I can get my guys collected for a Nasi Goreng and an Arak or a more local Chilli with Pernod & Cola. We'll see you all soon!

Daniel

Way home - bah!

2006-09-06T10:29:00.000+02:00

Hey folks,

boarding time is in 5 minutes, backpacks given away, and we're heading
over BKK to FRA.

Thank you Bali for your moments and atmosphere - we shall return soon.

Cheers,
Ksenia & Daniel

and some kudos to Philsen

2006-09-05T17:32:00.000+02:00

Hey Philsen,

We'll get back to your comments as soon we can login to the blog again
- until then: this entry is dedicated to you ;)

Dan-the-man

Arrived at Kuta in Bali / back again

2006-09-05T17:29:00.000+02:00

We're back again - after our trip from Gili Trewangan over Lombok to
Padang-bai with Perama Tours boat, we stayed one night in Ubud. Our
plan for one night in central bali was doing one of the famous Spa -
so we visited the Nua Salon: 500.000 IDR (arround 50 euros) for a 3
1/2 hour package of traditional balinese body massage, facial (not the
porn stuff), a hair treatment plus mani- and pedicure.
It was perfect, but I fucked it up in the middle and got some of my
curry- lotion into my eyes. The whole day until today was messed up,
my eyes are red like a bloddy vampire and pain like hell. Obviously I
can't wear my lenses right now, and my glasses lost one piece of the
eye - crap. However, after falling asleep after our massage, we wanted to meet
Craig and Corinna from england / australia in Kuta again. WeJve met
them on the Gilis with our Diving instructor, and both of them are
hell of interesting and friendly bunch of people. Craigs parents used
to live in Kuta for a while, and Corinna has a damn long and
extravagant travelling expirience (including countries like Birma -
google for it, no piece of land is isolated like this, you're not
allowed to bring one piece of a magazine or newspaper inside, these
guys never had internet there and don't even know whose bloddy
annoying Mr. George W. Bush).

However, after today arrival in famous Kuta / Legian, Bali's loud and
noisy surfer paradise, we've tried to catch up with craig to find
their hotel-recommendation. This time, neither the ganja nor some
mushrom layed him down - this poor guy threw up the whole day since we
left the boat in Padang-Bai.
I am so happy for us not having one day of the so called 'Bali-Belly',
whereby as a european you need to count in at least 2 days of a hard
time to get used to the different spices, water anbd fruits they are
using over here.

We haven't had anything, but these two mates seem to have had either a
bad ice-cream on Gili or picked the wrong food on the boat.
Since we met Craig shortly in the hotel, this poor man haven't left
the room once - probably only jumping between bed and toilet. After a horrible 4 hours shopping marathon on Legian beach and poppies
lane, we've met Corinne at the beautiful sunset and the famous Kuta
Beach. As crowded it's used to be before the bombings, it is still so
full of atmosphere. Hundreds of chilling people laying in the sand,
enjoying the most impressive sunset of the world.
Shopping is even more a horror in Kuta since 2002 - a big bunch of
australians still keep away from Bali, the big Bombing Monument right
next to our Hotel still reminds about all bodies, written in golden
letters into stone. The ground-zero day is still a big part in the
memory of most balinese people, the 'fuck all terrorists' t-shirts
express only barely civil mind in pieces.

The hawkers over here are less aggressive like in Lovina, but the lack
of tourists can be felt with every step you make. No comparison to the
easyness of Amed or the absence of sellers on the Gilis.
But it's still not quit over here, while having a bintang on the
balcony, I can here the basedrum of the bars & clubs nearby,
advertising themself with pretty chicks on the street and trying to
pull the still big amount of trvallers but especially surfers into
their places. Ksenia and I probably did some good deals, more likely not -
even if you pay only a small dollar for sarong, silver or shorts, even after a
lot of bargaining and a crying shop-seller, you have the feeling you
payed 10 times off their lowest offer possible.
However, found cool trousers, small amount of souvenirs and 15
brand-new DVDs for 10 euros (in a slim plastic case, fully cover).
Not looking forward to our flight departure back to bangkok ->
Franfurt tomorrow afternoon, especially Ubud, Amed and Gili Trawangan
caught us completly. As promised before, we'll report about this in
details later, editing and adding piece by piece this weekend.
I am curious how our working day on thursday / friday will look like,
as we're now on GMT -6, so we're about to work at midnight time for
us. But it was all worth it, this travel appears to us like not 2 1/2
weeks, but 2 months of bloddy nice expirience - how can you get this
with a fixed pre-booked holiday so easily? ;-)

Posting soon, many greetings from Bali 2006!!
Ksenia (writing good ol' postcards) and Daniel (the e-man bloggo-mat)

PADI Open Water Diver sucessfully accomplished :)

2006-09-02T13:16:00.000+02:00

It is done! We've completed the certification today with our 4th open water dive on dive-spot 'meno wall'. The theory exam was done yesterday already, whereby the practical part was way more exciting.

We finished with a lot of big turtles, batfish, angel- and trumpetfish and some squids. In the morning we've seen a baby- and a white tip shark, just chilling on the bottom in front of us. The shark was about 1 1/2 meter long, really impressive to log that down in our diving logbook. One of the turtle just swam right above Ksenia, it was again a beatiful expirience here on Gili Trawagan.

More about the seen fish and pieces out of our logbook after we returned, unfortunatly we haven't made any underwater pictures, but the expirience will stay in our memory forever.

Tomorrow we'll pick up another fun-dive at sharks-point in the morning, as soon my tingeling in the toes becomes any better ;)
On monday we're planning to leave in the morning again with the. peraman boat to Padang-Bai Bali, but I am honestly not looking forward to it. Now I am more looking for a shower and then getting boozed at the pub with our instructor jordy, who really did a great job training us. We will miss his patience and professionality - he knows really a lot about the spots arround the Gillis.

The whole team at http://www.manta-dive.com is really really nice, check out the page for more infos and pictures - I can totally recommend their service at the best on Trawangan. Ask for Jordy if you're dutch or speak english, and you will enjoy diving like we do. All the best to Tim, Ben (we missed to say goodbye, he left for a six day diving trip to the Komodo islands), the girls, Laura and Anthony as well.

To be continued, need to get rid of the salted water - and the night starts already.

Daniel

Theory of PADI Open Water Diver started

2006-08-29T14:27:00.000+02:00

Today we've started our first lesson for diving on Lombok. Slightly changed course due to Ksenia's sunburn, but we used the time for going thru the manuals and completing the theory-chapter 1 & 2, including a follow-up DVD as a refresher in the night.

Thats 6 hours work for today, looking forward for the first practical lesson - optional in open water or the pool - tomorrow. Our instructor left it up to us, tomorrows weather and if Ksenia and me stay alone in the course.
Actually it's a lot to learn, including fun - but: as diving can cause serious damage, injury or death if you. don't follow the rules, we take it serious. But as it's very straight forward - material and the instructors help - I'm quite sure we'll succeed and have the big amazing expirience like thousand of thousands before of us.

Now dinner is done and we're about to start the night-life. Less busy the people, even the lonely-planet keeps telling about. But still an extraordinary amount offers of fish, food, DVDs, weed, all cheap and descent. Trawangan, we start to enjoy you more and more.

K & D :)

Bali & Lombok 2006 Trip-diary startin'

2006-08-28T15:48:00.000+02:00

We are alive and no more kicking!

I'm running quite behind to keep posting here, but it was a very busy time while on our holidays in Indonesia. We kept writing the daily expirience down the old fashioned way with pen & paper, as Internet on Bali, especially in Ubud was kinda slow.

Now I've activated the email blogging mode, sending this blog entry now from my blackberry, laying in a hammock on Gili Trawangan, a small island north-east to lombok. The Bintang beer nearby is cold, the homestay bungalow cheap and the reggae sound from the party-island pubs and restaurants gives the right backround atmosphere to start chilling in our hols.

We've travelled a lot in the past 10 days on bali with a small jeep we rented, seen douzen of huge temple / thousands of smaller ones, ceremonies, did some rafting, snorkeling and manymany other impressive things. As the first 60% of our journey was planned to be cultural orientated, we've arrived to the 'Gillies' (indonesian for Island) today with a direct boat transfer from Padang-Bai.

I won't spoil to much of details right now, as we will start posting chronolically all days day-by-day. This entry is meant to be the starter, we might add some smaller notes via blackberry, but going to put the major content, photos and maps in later.
Ksenia burned her back yesterday due to an awesome snorkling yesterday all day in Amed, eastern Bali. The corals are just 10m in front of our bungalow at vienna-beach, with a huge amount of fish - we just couldn't stop it. So probably we won't start the PADI tomorrow as planned, but one day later. If that stays true, we may go back to Bali on sunday, checking a SPA and another dance in Ubud and going shopping for our return on the 6th.

But I won't start thinking about the return yet, looking forward to the stay on Trawagan, diving, party (lot's of young travellers here, different to Bali) and good food. I may leave the magic mushrooms out they keep offering you at each corner ;)

Until then - stay tuned for more and many greetz from the gorgeous south-eastern asia!

Dan - the Hammock - man

Geeks Palace

2006-08-16T09:57:00.000+02:00

Meanwhile the certain point of departure comes near and nearer, I'll use my time to post some quick stuff. Look at the geek advertisement to the left, isn't that funny? - hoho

However, the markets are ramping up again, firms are hiring, the headhunter- and recruiting companies are on the rush again. Our competitors know the direct-phone #, whereby I am wondering if there is any centralised place with all CVs and phone / mobile # uploaded for just picking it up. In russia, you can buy a DVD for $5 in the Metro, where you got all registred civilians of St. Petersburg listed, including phone- and cell-number, any running depts, education, current job and job of your parents. Good bye Lenin & data security policies!

I lost the point - if you're a geek, able to write not only PHP but some more object-based language, and you computer looks as hairy as your trousers (Revenge of the dust bunnies):
find_great_jobs();

It's out there - I feel it.

Spiegel.de picks up on my Gadget-Article

2006-08-14T19:03:00.000+02:00

Haha - ye, dream on Daniel. But by coincidence, the most popular german magazine brought up a story about cool USB-gadgets: "Die Buchse für Spielkinder". After my hols I will start a serious RFP for all this coolio-things out there. I still need a couple of that USB rockets, but as you can see on the gadget page I previously posted, there are douzens of funny items to purchase. However, Spiegel picks up on a couple of USB items - I leave the german original translation to keep the copyrights, but with an italic translation appended.

USB-Tassenwärmer (A cup-warmer)

Availabot: 3D-Visitenkarte für Instant Messenger (this I wanna checkout, sounds very interesting)

USB-Ventilator mit wechselnder LED-Beleuchtung (FAN with LED-lightning)

USB-Wecker mit Luftreiniger (alarm clock with air purifier)

USB-Aschenbecher mit Rauchabzug (another air purifier, specialized on smokers)

USB-Heizhandschuhe (for cold gaming-sessions outside in winter)

USB-Papierschredder (for suspicious material: shred it, man)

We have fun with our computer! B)

Travel Plan Bali & Lombok 2006 ACCOMPLISHED - man

2006-08-14T10:22:00.000+02:00

Well, here we go. After the august-weather gave me great support for computer-work at the past weekend, I've taken my chance to complete the draft of our travel-plan. On friday afternoon, we'll pick the 747 FFM -> Bangkok -> Denpasar, where we'll arrive about 2pm local time on saturday.

The rest of the details are settled in the already quite good online planner on
Here you will find our timeschedule, places, sight-seeing places and if we'd make it to one of the numerous internet-cafés, I possibly take care of the journal. As the connection is poor from the indonesian islands, the photos will follow later on.

Until then - enjoy and feel free to comment or advice on our Yahoo! Travel - Bali & Lombok 2006-Planning
http://travel.yahoo.com/trip?pid=785795&action=view

Ksenia & Daniel

More AOL public search-logs

2006-08-11T13:08:00.000+02:00

Hey, wanna add some more links. Someone did his job and placed the dump-file (see earlier blog-entry) into a queriable webservice. See the AOL-STALKER - that gives you quite fast an idea how tricky and intimate it is, to open your past 500 search-queries: Get a hard time search-engine treatment here

Die fabelhafte Welt des Eikon

2006-08-10T17:56:00.000+02:00

Mit diesem Post erzwinge ich häufigere Updates bei meinem Freund Marci! Die fabelhafte Welt des Eikon

Shared Calender

2006-08-10T15:07:00.000+02:00

Okay, let's envision you have a couple of weirdo friends, and they send weirdo stuff in an irregular email-distri. That's the zockcombo - Ric Hardy Schneider invented it and till that moment tries to bust it with intention and great support of Raffi Rafsen, formely known as Koks-Raf.
These guys try to keep us up-to-date on running events, so I'd be glad to pick it up, just to remind myself about current festivalités and closing the terror-topic from before:

Olgas-Rock - Umsonst und draußen Festival im Ruhrgebiet. Check out the the program if you like.
I like fireworks - Ruhrorter Hafenfest geht's die Feuerzunge ab: Dank an den Kanadier

Go for some more background info -> HIER

Some infos on the new ongrowing Innenhafen in Duisburg, weekly updated -> Newsletter content

Funny background on the CUBAR: After summer makes a break, the german / duisburg bureaucracy decided to let it open again. It's something similar to the monkey island in Duesseldorf, which is supposed to be closed by bureaucracists as well. Cocktails were check and sometimes tasty - but without sun it just sucks. Nice try...

New meeting dates set for the Film- & Music-copyright protection society: All english-speaking guys, please DONT click here

Terror-Attack out of Air - what's up man?

2006-08-10T14:04:00.000+02:00

Another chaos at it's peak "Terror-Fahnder verhindern Massenmord über den Wolken" - well, at least prevented before it happened, but the result is organised anarchy again.
I planned to fly over to London next week, god for sake I haven't made it to dublin today as I also planned last week. Cancelled baby, HTR is done for now: no handluggage, every passanger doublechecked manually - this at the most crowded and famous-for-delay Airport in northern europe already before.

It's extremly obvious, but we all flash it back to our memory as soon the newstickers put it up: Terror is everywhere, and it will never stop. It's there since the old 70s, the Libanon, Beirut, Palestina, Munich, IRA and RAF - it just seems to be more close and more likely, that somethings happening. As I wrote in the title of my blog, we're planning to fly in 7 days to Bali & Lombok. Bali is famous not only for the outstanding nature and cultural background, beautiful diving / snorkling places, art & beaches. There are some of the most breathtaking vulcanos, a paradis for trekking-fans. But the past attack of fanatism in 2002 showed a bloddy evidence, that - especially in the tourist-peak of south-bali - certain antipodes in a continues friction causes conflicts.

Bali is primarily hinduism orientated - lays geographically in the biggest muslimien coutry of the world: Indonesia. Right next to it is Java, where the civilians and a handful backpackers are busy enough with Tsunamis & earthquakes - and Lombok, the religious opposite of Bali, with an 80 / 20 share of muslimien & hindus (and obviously other). However, the conflicts of Hindu, Moslemien, Christians, Buddism back in the past of Indonesia was always an extreme obvious case - but haven't ever cause so many dead boddies like several overtakes by the europeans there in the past centuries. The mixture and close living to each other resulted in a healthy, respective and harmonical get-together, even in the spiritual level. The religious tradition of all original mankind on these islands learned and adapted from each other, based out of the same roots and having positive effects. This happened after enough of dead people tried to put their opinion onto others, but time helps getting things done better.

Now, after a couple of tourist booms took over the tiniest pieces of this planed, some different type of more friendly - but still offensive colonie-approach is happening. Having thousands of thousands ignorant, arrogant, filthy rich or even sensitiv-curious tourists stepping on your country, we need to consider that some guys don't like that stuff. And in time of missing maturity, intelligence, comprehension and appreciation - poverty and religious insularity, we need to be prepared for more, not less. Team America might try to fight against, but you can't do that with a shadow. Coming back to the book I am reading now, we're in the middle of the new war - the clash of the cultures. Make love not war, peace and harmony - hrhr, ye. And that is not going to end sooner then in the next hundred centuries. We just need to find a scope how to make the best out of it. Understanding comes first - doing needs to follow, but not sooner.

Adsense and Analytics Installation

2006-08-08T19:09:00.000+02:00

Hey let's see how that works. Just recently a client called me and asked about the IAB details of Google Analytics. How the heck shall I know, without getting into several available groups, FAQs, White-Papers and incredible much of content in different blogs in all varies of languages.

That's something everybody can start with: The official Google-Analytics Blog
Close the loop and make money / report on your ROI - and categorize your Site-Users: Inside AdSense (German)

Not to be confused with Site-Tracking companies - even public - like WebSideStory or the search-works (formally known as WSPS / Bid-Buddy).

I'll get deeper into it and keep myself and the audience posted.

Gadgets | USB Missile Launcher

2006-08-08T14:03:00.000+02:00

Starting the old tradition of picking out funny gadgets at my favorite shopping place - the internet. If you have some time until this great office-tool is back in stock: Have fun of shooting plastique rockets at your room-mates. The times of MASK, Lego and Masters of the Universe are over. Kiddies grown up, but still love their X-Box, Mobile-Cellphones with plenty of stuff, MRPGs and playing around with the girls.

If you're bored at work: Check out the USB Missile Launcher - an incredible sophisticating tool against annoying Sales-Reps, useless 'can you please' guys and office-managers.

Introduction - bloggin gettin started

2006-08-08T13:33:00.000+02:00

That's it - the blog content is about to leave my long-termed memory, otherwise I am running out of space.
I moved my blog hopefully the last time now - let's get this Firefox plugin started and see how it runs.

I've made several approaches to deal with allowing public to get access to my private memoires, starting with the old-fashioned letter-friend (he still waits for reply) delivered by letter pigeons, baloons, UPS-airmail or the 'Gilb' (Deutsche Post, RIP). Later wandered through BBS, Mailboxes, Fido, Newsgroups and my first homepage '95. Last recent one was Y! 360°, which I find kinda weirdo - and for myspace I'm not hip enough yet.

Nothing above mentioned was able to catch entries in a quick'n dirty way for an editor and therefore not my prefered way of useless diary-collecting.
That's what I am about to express via the Topic-comment in the blog: In the yadayada fast-moving society, we digital-childs are always looking for the best-individualizing, straight-forward, seamless, flexible and customizable filter to search to the bottom our knowledge-sources (primarily the internet right now), so we create News-pages bundling different RSS- and Blog-wires. We communitize ourself in myspace, myvideos, myass and mybeer to compress the search for guys in Reallife with same interest. In the pub I need to talk first to 15 guys & gals to find 2 with hobbies like

simpsons
internet
sunshine
hols
ski
hating stupid-people

in myspace it takes several seconds (depends on their database load).

If thats a good or bad thing I leave up to you, my opinion: Both is true.
That's leaving a lot of good things behind - speaking to 15 different persons even not ideally fitting to my target-group allows me to open my mind to other things. And who the heck likes to be with similar chaps all the time, huh?
Good is the time-advantage and the variety of sharing digital pieces - videos and photo sharing, music and thoughts, prosa and project-plans. How did we do that in the 80s? Not AT ALL (photos are always lost)

We're always running late, no-on-track, behind expectations, fearing dead-lines, missing ol' friends, family forgot our face - and waiting for the cloning-machine (useful for a lot of stuff!). But in the end I have always time - I pretend to be busy, but there are things you NEED to have time for, cause it's all lame excuse. I even got time writing that shit here while beeing at work - hey manager, you see that? We have so much time we would need to - and if you're running out of it, it's mostly b/c you have a lack in time-management or you're to lazy cause of smoking weed. Last is valid for an excuse been 18 - 24Y old or Angela Merkel, but not afterwards.

Closing that first entry with something what was once my very beloved topic: Literature.
Reading currently: Several things started, but seriously:

Samual P. Huntington - Clash of the cultures (Ye Joern - still!)
Max Goldt - Quitten für die Menschen zwischen Emden und Zittau (translation: Whateva!)

I think it's a good approach not to spam to much without ending a link to a funny / breaking news story to proof my network works. So here we go with that:

AOL: Suchanfragen von über 500.000 Nutzern online

AOL entschuldigt sich - Suchlog-Deaktivierung in der Diskussion

That's it folks - running out of time, need to work.

Cheers,
DonBolko