Today, the holy Steve Jobs came down to us once again to present to us his latest prophecy, the long awaited iPad. While the device looks slick as always, I see it as a tremendous risk for Apple unlike any of its other new products of recent years.
Usually, after Apple announces a new gadget, people [...]
Christmas – for a nonbeliever like me anyway – largely consists of giving and receiving presents. And the major percentage of the presents I receive nowadays falls into the “tech” category. So I’ll try to give a brief review of the new items that I’ll have to replace again in two years down the road.
To [...]
At AirlineSim we use CAS for user authentication and right now we are in the process of migrating parts of the game to the great web framework Wicket. Yesterday I thought about a way of integrating both in a way that a user is automatically redirected to a login page when he lacks access rights [...]
I wanted to redo my blog for quite a while now and today I finally got to do it. The primary objective was to switch the system from Serendipity to Wordpress. We’re using the latter with AirlineSim and it really grew on me while Serendipity was more of a hassle although I’m everything but a [...]
The last few weeks AirlineSim have been quite a bit of fun again and it almost feels like the good old times. With the definite decission taken that we want to roll out an English version of the game before the end of the year a whole lot of things have happened. Let me summarize [...]
We did it. Nils and I actually took the trip every true aviation enthusiast should take once in his/her life. Well, at least should try to whenever around the area . Since any reader not absolutely visually impaired knows that I’m currently residing in Hong Kong, most of the more interested in aviation might [...]
Yes, I admit, it has been fairly quiet around here over the last couple of weeks. And since a few people were complaining about this silence I’ll use this first post of year 2008 to get everybody reading this up-to-date about what’s currently planned and going on. Hopefully all of you had a merry Christmas [...]
Yep, it’s been a while since new material appeared in this location but somewhat I didn’t feel like writing too much lately even though plenty of stuff to write about would’ve been available. I still didn’t write about my trip to Japan…shame on me. Anyway, today I attended the very last lecture of this semester. [...]
I eloberated quite a bit on the heat issues plagueing my notebook lately. Well, this weekend the situation worsened considerably up to the point that the machine crashed under the slightest above-average load. Working on it was not possible anymore effectively so I decided to call up the local Asus service office. Contrary to my [...]
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