First, I need to apologize for the mess I left you with. Oh, I didn’t update my blog and the other pages look too old to even mention them here. But: Re-doing a site takes plenty of time. My hands didn’t find the time to really work out all the cool stuff my great mind came up with in the last months.

To keep it short:

• Everything’s gonna be alright soon!
• The gallery will be updated frequently to keep you on track without many words
• My friends can follow me on facebook
• For business contact, find me on XING and LinkedIn

I hope that’ll do it for the first. The rest will follow.

And just ignore the damned old crap.

Funny bias, Apple has. When discovering an unknown PC in the network, Mac shows an icon of an old, grey monitor with a blue screen

Just found a web site creation app that’s exclusively made for mac and promises to be simple while extensible: RapidWeaver. The new version 4.0 has just been shipped, so I’ll definiteley give it a try.

Coming from Dreamweaver and being more the hands-on coding guy who did not yet find the right editor, I’m waiting for something that closes the gap between pure WYSIWYG and the textpad approach.

RapidWeaver is quite promising since they seam to have chosen the proper ingredients: clear separation of content and style (XHTML and CSS clearly separated), templating (they call it “Themes”), an easy way to publish only updated content, extensibility by plugins, code snippets,… just to name a few.

And: It just looks beautiful on a mac. For many software engineers, this is not a major focus, but a nice and handy UI makes you so much more creative and productive. I’ll keep you updated about my experiences.

Meanwhile: Give it a try yourself!

A friend forwarded a link to a Ars Technica article on app development comparison between Microsoft and Apple. The tag line with that came with the link already gave the impression that it won’t be a Pro-Windows article.

Coincidence, that my request got responded by a typical MS .NET application server error message?

To give you a little taste of what I’ve seen on my spontaneous backpacker trip through Switzerland, France and Spain, I’ve just uploaded some of the highlights. Will take some time to prepare and upload the rest, I guess.

Sorry that the gallery is temporary offline. Last week I saw that my flickr pro account expired which I didn’t want to extend through an unsecured network during holiday travel (you know that I did my experience with this).

I just extended my flickr Pro account, so this shouldn’t happen again before 2010

[Update] Gallery online again! Found out that the gallery bug was nothing that flickr would be accountible for. A weired glitch that occurs about twice a year was the reason: MySQL database corruption on the flickr cache table. The error looked like this: “Can’t open file: ‘flickr_cache.MYI’ (errno: 144)”. A “REPAIR TABLE flickr_cache” did the job and now it purrs like a cat again.

Can you believe that: there’s no Saturday train from Paris to Stuttgart with a single place available (except for 1st class for €210)! The buses don’t serve the main routes Saturday as well. Knowing that I will have to leave Toulouse with the night train to have a chance getting back to Germany on hitch-hiking.

Just enjoyed the last sun here before getting back to where snow and rain seam to feel comfortable at home…
It’s a pitty that Garorock was sold out you guys have fun!

Sitting on Plaza Santa Ana I realize that finally I arrived. It’s holiday, Je suis en vacance, esta es vacansas (this is not spanish I guess, but it sounds like it).

I could be walking around here for days, interrupting wherever I can for a hand full of Tapas, una cerveza de barril and café con leche.

Enjoying that right now
and will take the train to San Sebastian tomorrow morning to further get to Toulouse on Friday for the Garorock Festival.

Life is good, I’d say!

Whow, I forgot how great backpacker travelling is! Have been taken to Lausanne last Thursday to revisit the beautiful city I’ve been studying in in 1999. From there, hitch-hiking to Geneva (cool party;)), next day with train to Montpellier, France.

Didn’t expect to find such an amazing city with a great young crowd willing to party all night long (bars close at 1AM which is arkward but clubs are busy til morning). The beach is a great place to chill, take the bus 28 from Place de l’Europe.

Sunday, Herman from Barcelona took me to Figueres. Dali museum is a great place to spend the afternoon, but be careful to not make your way through it with all the screaming school class excursion folks.

The night train brought me to Madrid where I’m just about to start my second day and with it the second half of my vacation.

It is incredible how many people you meet and how many things you can see on a backpacking tour! Except for a stolen battery charger for my camera (well, it’s not essential but still hurts me) every part of my trip got me surprisingly great people and impressions.

That’s it for now - I’m curious to see more of this beautiful, busy, sunny but windy city…

There’s still no support for Sony CS-1 on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. Quite disappointing. I’m waiting for a solution, since the current situation renders this cool device useless for Mac users of the latest OS version.

The device is not recognized at all. Therefore Parallels or VMWare Fusion cannot come to the rescue. All you can do use a separate PC. Well done…

Follow-up: 44377447

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