Well, I’ve done it. I converted from BlogCMS to WordPress, importing all my posts using my own written (broken link)Nucleus / BlogCMS import script. Worked pretty well for my taste 😉 .
Anyways, the „new“ default design sucked, so I have installed a design called „silver is the new black“ from Alex King’s WP CSS homepage. That’s only a temporarily solution, though, cause I want to have my old „feeling“ back 😉
Well. I was faced with the trouble to force a page to be displayed in UTF-8. But although the Content-type meta parameter of the page was – correctly – set to text/HTML; charset=utf-8, the browsers (IE & Firefox) wouldn’t use this encoding. Instead, latin1 was used all the time, which was undesireable because of the Euro (€) Symbol.
If you have access to the web server directory you can specify a default encoding within the .htaccess file: Simply add the line AddDefaultCharset utf-8 to .htacces, and everything should work fine.
I have uploaded my first photos I took with my shiny new camera. Have a look in the (broken link) Gallery … . Of course only the better ones 😉
Yes, I’m stressed. My foot hurts, my brain aches, and I can’t stand more than five people around me right now. I was shopping for presents, the day before XMas, just like every year.
And I have found great ones 🙂 . The problem is: I love making presents. That’s why it’s always too expensive to be good – a simple, unpersonal, one-for-all-gift for everyone of my friends just isn’t my thing. Damn. But … still, they’re great. (I usually do have more fun giving them than the people on the receiving end 😉 ).
I read in a newspaper a comment from one of the actors: „The biggest joke was on Catherine [Zeta Jones]: She actually thought we made a real movie“. Well, that sums it up: This movie does not want to be taken seriously, and you can see that all the actors had a lot of fun doing it.
I personally liked it. Nothing like Ocean’s 11, but definitely not worse. Different. More „fun“. But the end is a bit artificial nonetheless. Anyhow, worth to see in any case.
Well, it’s done – I have my new camera. First – boring, stupid – test shots have been taken, and I have given 18 pictures over to an internet service for developing. As soon as I got those pictures back from Fotocommunity prints and they are worth a look I will put them into my gallery.
With many to follow, I hope 🙂
Ein Besuch beim HalsNasenOhrenarzt und Orhtopäden brachte mir folgendes ein:
Resultierte in …
Mal schauen, was davon ich so alles für sinnvoll erachte …… 8) . Auf dem Weg morgens zum HNO wurde ich noch durch ein Verkehrswarnsystem auf die geltende Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung aufmerksam gemacht, durch einen roten Blitz, der mir netterweisse mitteilte, ich sei zu schnell.
Finally, it’s here. I made a short intervention which I call „money spending day“ from now on, and bought myself a new camera and a XMas present :-). Some things are simply necessary.
The XMas present is a picture, but which one I will not tell until it’s ready – until XMas that means, hehe. But I like it, and my aunt (it’s her present) was suffiently shocked. Half the fun, hehe.
So probably the picture of the new camera will be the last picture taken with my old one. Shabby thing – can’t even get the focus right on the simplest things.
Hehe, have a look at my new camera 🙂 . Well, of course the picture is not the final cam, that’s only the raw material, which will finally be forged into one ;-).
(lost image here 🙁 )
But I just checked the stores yesterday, being very surprised that the camera was already in there and available on the market for two days. Alas that thing has the feeling of a very edgy thing of another dimension. It simply is not comfortable when gripping it, although menu structure, camera handling etc. is very intuitive and fast.
Now I’m in trouble: Do I buy Nikon, which I really do not want to do because they just suck (I had a little disagreement with the customer service), although the D70 just flows into your hands? Or Canon, which is even worse: Good handling, but … plastic!! Or Olympus – the very meaning of the word edge becoming solid matter, but superior optical quality, superior handling, dedicated digital technology, not Nikon, but very few accessories?
…
Ah, I think Olypus it will be 🙂 So now it’s time to go spend that money. That’ll be fun! 🙂
Film, Dienstag, 4 € Tag. Glücklicherweise. Denn noch eine sinnlose über-patriotistische Hommage an Weihnachten braucht wirklich niemand.
Kurzfassung: Tim (Allen) und Jamie (Lee Curtis) haben eine Tochter, die zum Friedenskorps nach Peru fährt. Ein Jahr lang. Über Weihnachten. Also beschließen die beiden, Weihnachten ausfallen zu lassen. Keine Geschenke, keine Spenden, kein Weihnachten – dafür zehn Tage Karibikkreuzfahrt. Soweit also.
Die Umgebung mag das gar nicht: Die Sekretärin ist sauer, dass sie kein Parfum bekommt, die Nachbarskinder veranstalten eine Belagerung mit dem Sprechgesang „befreit Frosty!!“ (ein Pappschneemann zum aufs Dach binden) vor der Tür, der weihnachtsirre Nachbar lässt die Sternensinger vor dem Haus kampfsingen. So gut also.
Dann ruft am 24.12. doch noch die Tochter an. Sie ist in Miami und mit ihrem (neuen) Verlobten um halb neun zur alljährlichen Party zu Hause. Ergo: Kreuzfahrt? Was’n das? Weihnachten ist angesagt – und alle helfen jetzt mit, damit die Weihnachtsparty doch noch nett wird. Auch der schräge Nachbar und die dummen Kinder. Und ab hier wirds einfach schlimm.
If he hadn’t said that in May I would have thought he didn’t like XMas shopping:
„For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It’s just unacceptable. And we’re going to do something about it.“
And some things simply are truly … wise:
„When I’m talking about…when I’m talking about myself, and when he’s talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.“
More of that is here .
Well, things are improving again. I was visiting my uncle in Zurich for his 70th birthday this weekend, and it was pure torture. It started with me getting sick from the train which leaned into curves to drive faster, and had seats much too low to be comfortable. If you ever hear CIS Alpino … run.
Zurich was extremely nice – the share of girls is much higher there than here in DA City, and – for a change – they look much better in average. Not physical, but … style. Still sick I was continuing on to the party, which started in a non-heated barn, where all guests froze their feet off and I won a bike-home-trainer-contest. Whew. It continued for about six hours with talks, songs, talks, songs, more talks, more songs, a movie, … . Pure hell.
But of course it was fun to see my younger relatives again (my cousins – about 40 years, my nephews – about 9 years of age), who are truly nice people 🙂 . My … well, nephews Gregor and Tobias were especially fond of me, and I was given the name of „Living Plaything“ by their aunt. I came to the conclusion to wait a little longer before having children. Too stressing. The parent’s lauged at that, the kids wanted to know, why – 15 times in a row. Not having a girlfriend was not an argument, of course. (Liberal Suisse upbringing, eh? 😉 ) Tobias ended that discussion with the statement „Just go get a girlfriend, and then … haaaaaahh!! Then it rocks!!“ No comment … .
Going back (thank heavens in an ICE) I was in bed at 10pm and had a talk with my tutors at 10am next day. This was relaxing, reassuring and productive, thus this front is cleard, too, now.
And my new electronic dart board has arrived and already caused a great deal of fun during last evening. Things are definitely improving since yesterday :-))
It seems to become a “tradition” to write my current mood into the subject line. Well.
Enlightened because: Did you ever want to know where the name „ACME (Corp.)“ used in all those Bugy Bunny etc. cartoons came from? Here is the answer …
Unhappy because: I have a little disagreement with my tutors, who behaved in a very weird (and unfriendly) way yesterday.
… at the end of the tunnel. After a completely rotten day I „won“ 11:2 in squash.
Oh baby.
Much has happened since last time I wrote. Nothing worth mentioning, though (remember the title? 😉 ). Anyways, a blog is for writing. So, first thing is I have a new Squash racket. Great. Lost 11:0 first time I used it (of course only because it’s still too unfamiliar). It’s an Oliver Wave 77, weighting about „approximately“ 150 grams altogether.
(sadly, image lost)
Further, we are probably going to have dinner on XMas, which is not too easy because most of the restaurants are closed that day. (Do they all want to cook on XMas or is that just … weird??). While searching for an open restaurant I saw something … . Have a look yourself … .
(sadly, image lost)
Anyways, this is where we will go, and we will go for dinner, so we probably won’t come into trouble if they want to close at four minutes past half past twelve, hehe.
… and the story continues 😉 .
Being happy and peaceful I decided to go see some movies … with a bunch of friends. We went into Alien vs. Predator, expecting nothing but an awfully bad, solid, simple and senseless splatter-movie. What we got was awfully bad, solid, simple and senseless. But no splatter … more like rat-race. With a very stupid romance.
So if you seek action – go somewhere else. Actually, if you seek anything – go somewhere else. (So if you seek nothing you don’t have to go anywhere at all, especially not in that unique movie 😉 )
Being frustrated to death this morning I did three things. (Well, if _not _doing anything useful can be called a „thing“ then I did four). First of all I went to the local hardware store and bought some … „Perlatoren“ – whatever the English word might be for this sanitary item.
But the main thing is: I bought myself a new desk (thing one). That really rocks!! And because that rocks just too much to keep it to myself I wanted to tell people about this. But I couldn’t – I had no really working gallery on my page. But Blog:CMS has one included in the new version, so I downloaded this one and upgraded (thing two). After taking the photos of course (thing three 🙂 ) .
Now I am happy and peaceful.
My almost weekly movies event. Bourne again, or in other words The Bourne Supremacy (I’ll have a look what exactly „supremacy“ means quite soon!). Well, but for once I’m not really pissed having paid 8 € for a movie which bored myself to death.
Of course, the story is a bit thin, and quire forseeable, but it’s solid Hollywood action. Good actors, solid work, nicely done. … well, apart from the camera – that pseudo-documentary style really sucks (it looked like they tried to save money on the camera stands, everything is shaking as if the camera guy was running around without a tripod and without knowing what to actually film).
But after all … good work. Nice ending title, too (Moby, „Extreme ways“).
There are some funny things in life. Nigeria connection got updated: They try to address people by their names to appear more credible. Haha!! However, this lyrical masterpiece of the German language just landed in my inbox. I did not remove any newlines, by the way. This really looks like that.
Lieb Bock, Es ist mein demütiges Vergnügen, diesen Brief abgesehen von
der Tatsache zu schreiben, die wir uns nicht getroffen haben. Lassen
Sie zuerst mich anfangen durch Einführen von mich selbst ordentlich zu
Ihnen. Ich bin Herr Patrick Hurley, Manager, Bill und Umtausch von der
Ausländischen Geldüberweisungsabteilung, Eko Internationale Bank Plc.
Ich schreibe Ihnen diesen Brief, um Ihre Stütze zu bitten, und
Zusammenarbeit, eine Verhandlung ausführen. Wir haben eine verlassene
Summe von US$7.5Million (7,5 Millionen U. S Dollar) in einem Konto, das
Ein von unserem ausländischen Kunden Herrn Mark Bock der gehört, ist
gestorben im November 1997 in einem Flugzeugabsturz in Lagos, Nigeria
entdeckt. Seit dieser Entwicklung haben wir glühende Bemühungswerbung
für seinen nächsten Angehörigen gemacht oder irgendein nahes Verhältnis
hervortreten, dieses Geld zu beanspruchen, aber niemand ist gekommen,
das Geld zu beantragen. Die Leitung unter dem Einfluss von unserem
Vorsitzenden und Ausschuss der Direktoren, trifft Vorkehrung für den
Fonds „UNCLAIMABLE “ und erklärt zu werden, werde dann anschließend auf
die Bundesregierungsreserven übertragen. Um abzuwenden, diese
Entwicklung. Mich selbst und einige von meinen Vertrauten Kollegen in
der Bank, suchen jetzt für Ihre Erlaubnis Sie stehen, als der nächste
Angehörige zu lassen, da Sie den gleichen Familiennamen damit der Fonds
(USD$7.5M) tragen, würden anschließend übertragen werden und würden in
Ihr Bankkonto als der Nutznießer der nächste Angehöriger gezahlt
werden. Alles, das Dokumente und beweist, Sie zu ermöglichen, erhält
diesen Fonds vorsichtig geklappt von meinem Tisch und ich werde jede
Dokumente perfektionieren, in Übereinstimmung zu den Bankwesengesetzen
zu sein, und Richtlinien deshalb Sie haben nichts, um für wir sich zu
kümmern, zusichert Sie, dass ein 100% Risiko Beteiligung befreit. Wir
haben übereingestimmt, dass 40% vom Geld für uns, 10% für Ausgaben sein
wird, die gezugezogen werden, während 50% für Sie sein wird. Wenn Sie
werden helfen mir, anzuzeigen durch Erwidern dieses Briefs, in Ihre
E-Mailadresse, Ihre direkte Telefonnummer stellend. Ich erwarte Ihre
unmittelbare Erwiderung, uns zu ermöglichen, fängt diese Verhandlung in
ernst an. Sie können durch diese meine private E-Mail-Adresse patrickhurley2004@walla.com
oder Ruf auf + 2348035622040 erwidern. Nachdem ich Ihre Erwiderung
empfange, werde ich Ihnen den Text der Anwendung für unmittelbare
Anwendung des Anspruchs schicken. Wenn dieser Vorschlag fein durch Sie
ist, dann erhalten freundlich zu mir sofort über diese vertrauliche
E-Mailadresse, die nur mich mit Ihrem vertraulichsten Telefon, und
E-Mail ausstattet, deshalb ich zu Ihnen die relevanten Details von
dieser Verhandlung kann weiterleiten und kann die Vertraulichkeit nötig
in diesem Geschäft behalten. Vielen Dank im Voraus für Ihre erwartete
Zusammenarbeit. Die besten Beachtungen, Herr Patrick Hurley
But what really annoys me is that obviously my email got known to those freaks and they were even able to connect it to my real name …. . But still: only 2 spam mails a WEEK is a very good rate, don’t you think? 🙂
The Vollplaybacktheater was almost funny. Sometimes. Well, I counted 7 jokes. But I have to admit it was an enormous effort and a great performance – but simply not my style of humour. At all.
Whew. Work is going great today. I’m not even finished and have already written about 7K of simulator code. That’s really good, don’t you think? For all people not into programming: Writing 7 kilobytes new, fresh code is not easy if you start something new from scratch! Always remember: every char you type is basically a command to the computer to do some stuff – you can imagine what can go wrong when you issue about 7000 commands to someone.
Anyhow, I’m going to a Full Playback Theater later, and I can do this with a free mind and without stressing myself about work not being done today. I like that 🙂 . Tomorrow morning squashing is on my schedule again, so this week promises to become a good one.
(And now I have one blog entry more on my list, hehe, but I think I should add a category named Not really important for postings like this one …)
I have been smart again. I did back-ups of all my blog entries, even multiple times, but hey – when you switch to SQL storage and delete all the SQL tables afterwards (accidently, of course …) you are usually happy about that.
But when you realize that your backups are useless, because the underlying database format was not happy with your latest system upgrade, and MovableType is not able to tell you what exactly is wrong, you’re f*cked again. Okay, they say the database upgrade is trivial, but … well, I upgraded to three … no, four different versions of DB now, and nothing works. So my entries are gone for now.
Ye-oh.
But at least this blog is now so much nicer than the last, with graphics, and plugins, and … well, just nicer 🙂 . The main reason for me to change – I admit – was, that BLOG:CMS (the backend software) is free. MovableType is not.
So, as life continues, this blog will fill again, but still it’s a shame that all the old entries are gone.