January 30, 2010:
Barack Obama: Included "The State of the Union" 2010/01/27.
January 26, 2010:
Art Diary: Platonic Garden: Tetrahedron, Octahedron, Cube, Icosahedron - in the sunrise:
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Art Diary: Lattice Wall: Sunrise with a lattice wall (model):
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January 19, 2010:
Art Diary: Geodesic Bamboo Dome: A geodesic icosahedron-based bamboo dome (6.40m diameter, 4v frequency, 250 pieces) pitched at my place:
&nbs..
December 30, 2009:
Barack Obama: Included the Nobel Prize acceptance speech, transcript and video, as given 2009/12/10, and the Copenhagen Climate Summit as held 2009/12/18 as well.
December 21, 2009:
Living Diary: Moving to France, Pitching my Yurts Again:
It has been over a year since I took down my yurt.
Art Diary: The Lonely Red Ball(oon): The purity, the extra-terrestrial which arrived here, not really belonging here, and reminding everyone who looks at it, there is more . .
October 3, 2009:
Living Diary: 100% Recycling - A New Economy: It's getting time for me to write down some things I have been "preaching" the last years.
September 14, 2009:
Barack Obama: His "Wall Street" speech included, as held 2009/09/14.
2009: France: Two Tours: Adding a few notes of my 2nd round touring through France.
July 21, 2009:
2009: France: Two Tours: First draft with overview, no detailed diary yet.
June 7, 2009:
Living Diary: Reforming the West - Perestroika for You too: As published in the Washington Post (2009/06/07), with my own comments in italics:
We Had Our Perestroika. It's High Time for Yours
Mikhail Gorbachev, former USSR leader, who ignited reformation w..
June 4, 2009:
Barack Obama: Including his speech in Cairo, Egypt as held 2009/06/04 addressing the Muslim world: A New Beginning.
June 3, 2009:
Living Diary: Facebook & Twitter, New Democratic Tools from the Internet?: I must admit Facebook and the alike isn't my thing; I had my share of building a social or rather "spiritual" community myself back then with SpiritWeb.org in late 1990's - you get everything: eloquen..
June 2, 2009:
Mobility Diary: General Motors & Chrysler Bankruptcy: GM Headquarter, Detroit, USA
Two large US manufacturers are bankrupt - all the criticism which was denied the last 10 years finally came true: heavy and inefficient cars without a perspective for the..
May 19, 2009:
Mobility Diary: USA wants cars make 39MPG or more (~6.2L/100km or less) by 2016: There is some motion regarding efficiency going on in the US car industry, coming from a couple states and now Obama adminstration itself: 30% reduction of gasoline usage is a start.
May 18, 2009:
Computer Diary: Server Counting: Status 2009/05:
Google450K
HP/ESD380K
Microsoft220K
Yahoo55K
eBay50K
1&1 Internet55K
Rackspace50K
ThePlanet48K
Akamai48K
OVH50K
SBC Comm.30K
Verizon25K
Time Warner Cable25K
Hetzner22K
SoftLayer21K
AT..
April 22, 2009:
Computer Diary: Automatically Geotag Photos without GPS: Update 2009/04/26: Since the script has grown beyond just a quick hack I moved it to my technology site The-Labs.com: GeoTag, Automatic Geotagging Photos without GPS.
April 18, 2009:
Mobility Diary: High-Speed Railway for USA: Obama pushes his agenda of progressive solutions further, and he seems to walk his talk and presented his plan for a high speed railway for the USA.
April 16, 2009:
Mobility Diary: Exotic Vehicles:
Segway (Mono Standing)
For long one of the most "modern" vehicles for urban application, now becomes almost a classic of its own: the Segway.
2008/12/04 10:55 2006/12/05 15:30
Sou..
April 15, 2009:
Computer Diary: Rebirth of FastCGI: Since I switched from Apache.org to Lighttpd.net , as mentioned in How To Save 300MB RAM, I got to an old buddy I almost forgot: FastCGI.
CGI
use CGI;
parse_arguments();
do_request();
exit();
..
April 14, 2009:
Mobility: Diverse vehicles (SAM, Loremo, Obvio 828, Tesla Roadster, Solar Taxi) added to the list, which I portrayed in the Mobility Diary.
Mobility Diary: Microcar: Swiss-based Cree's SAM: This 3 wheel motocycle-like micro-car has been developed in 1990's already, and was revived in 2006 again and got its own web-site finally.
April 13, 2009:
Mobility Diary: Lightweight Car: Loremo LS - 1.5L per 100km / 155 MPG: I finally found a lightweight car, still 550kg, but that team realized the overall weight is a crucial aspect of the overall efficency: Loremo LS - developed by a german-based team.
Mobility Diary: Vehicle/Body Ratio: Efficiency and Safety: Much of my argumentation of efficiency goes down to reduce the vehicle/body ratio, and only the human body, bicycles and a fully loaded truck are around 1 or below this ratio.
Mobility Diary: Microcars Done Wrong: Smart Fortwo & Obvio 828: While researching micro-cars and looking whether there are prototypes at least of lightweight car models, and of course it came into my mind the swiss developed Smart which later was bought by Mercede..
April 11, 2009:
Mobility Diary: Tesla Roadster: Old Way Car with Electric Engine: It came to my attention as it made it to the blog news-scene about the Tesla Roaster which ran 390km (241 miles) without recharging from the town of Valance in France to the Principality of Monaco as ..
April 10, 2009:
Living Diary: More Alternative Housing: Some more alternative housing approaches:
LoftCube
Design by Werner Aisslinger, cost apprx. 90,000 Euro / US$ 110,000 for 39m2, positioned either on roofs of skyscrapers or placed in nature:
2007..
Barack Obama: Link to critical decision on civil rights under Obama's Department of Justice (surprising).
April 8, 2009:
Living Diary: Ironies of Globalism:
Obama's US DVDs Won't Play on Brown's UK Screen
US president Barack Obama sent a 25 DVD box to UK prime minister Brown as a gift, between two political leaders, and when Gordon Brown tried to view i..
April 7, 2009:
Living Diary: Brain Storming: The World Government Swiss-Made: A little brain storming . . .
March 31, 2009:
Living Diary: Misc. Alternative Housing: Here a few more approaches of light weight housing, which qualify one or more points:
economical / low cost (avoiding mortgage)
easy to built (do it yourself)
ecological (sustainable materials)
Free..
March 29, 2009:
Living Diary: The Banking System: Trust & Money Making: The last months have been turbulent, and as most I also got involved to pay more attention to the economical system.
Lehman Brothers in September 2008
I have been criticizing the stock market and b..
Mobility Diary: Solar Taxi - A Swiss Entrepreneur: The "Solar Taxi" made it to the mainstream news media world wide, and was praised as true innovation.
Luis Palmer with his Solar Taxi
As the term indicates "Solar Taxi", it is a car which is driven..
March 28, 2009:
Mobility Diary: Wind-powered car breaks record: 126.1 mph or 202.9 km/h: A British engineer from Hampshire has broken the world land speed record for a wind-powered vehicle.
March 25, 2009:
Mobility Diary: US car manufacturer crisis: As it has been noted by most informed individuals, the big three US car manufacturer General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are in crisis, and its tied in brands like Opel in Germany are alike threatened.
Spirit Diary: Obama: The Saviour, or the Projection of our own Potential: Well, I thought to also add a diary (also known as a 'blog') to the Spirituality section.
Mobility Diary: Shell quits alternative energy investments:
According to The Guardian , the UK-based energy company Shell quits wind, solar and hydro power investements - as if it was just too good to be true to have an oil company to metamorph into a "green..
March 18, 2009:
Computer Diary: Online Advertisement & Income for Web-Site Owners: I'm aware that advertising is one of the incomes people get when running a site, e.g. my own web-sites do not have any ads but I should run some to get some income from what I did,
e.g.
March 14, 2009:
Computer Diary: iPhone JavaScript Frameworks (aka Avoiding Objective-C): There is a strong movement to open iPhone development beyond the XCode/Objective-C constraint and enhance the JavaScript layer with WebKit further.
March 12, 2009:
Computer Diary: Google - The Almighty Tracker & Advertising Blocking: I use gmail.com as main email backend, access it via IMAP and let all my domains forward email
there were I filter it into several folders (tagged). When I use the search engine google.com,
I'm track..
March 7, 2009:
Computer Diary: How To Save 300MB RAM: Also known as "Goodbye Apache & Bind, Welcome Lighttpd & NSD" (GABWLN) ;-)
I started to develop webpages at the time when Gopher was available, and Mosaic as first graphical browser was released.
March 6, 2009:
Computer Diary: Verbosity of Programming Languages: Question: How do I concatenate two strings together?
Answer by Objective-C:
NSString *string1 = @"Alpha";
NSString *string2 = @"Omega";
string1 = [string1 stringByAppendingString:string2];
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March 3, 2009:
Computer Diary: Problems with MacOSX: On MacOSX 10.5.6 on MacBook Pro:
Rendering Artifacts
I was disappointed about KDE-4.1 half backed unfinished frontend programming where graphical artifacts were
quite common, yet, after 2-3 weeks th..
February 25, 2009:
Barack Obama: Two new speeches added: Address to the Joint Session of Congress 2009/02/24, and Speech in Berlin, Germany 2008/07/24 - as well videos included as reference.
February 24, 2009:
Computer Diary: MacOSX: My First Steps:
MacOS-X (10.5.6), UNIX made Eye Candy & Easy
I admit, I was very excited to get my hand on a MacBookPro, I was expecting everything working out of the box.
MacBookPro with MacOS-X 10.5.6
GUI/Qua..
Computer Diary: Catch 22 with HDD/DVD Recorder Medion Life: I had to "fix" (to make work) a HDD/DVD Recorder for my parents, a "Medion Life" MD 82999 (likely a rebrand of LG RH-388H).
Computer Diary: Kubuntu 8.1 as guest on VirtualBox MacOSX host: Kubuntu 8.1 as guest on MacOSX with VirtualBox.org
I do intensive graphic work with scripting, e.g.
Computer Diary: VirtualBox vs VMWare Fusion on MacOSX: I require to test some of my web-sites with IE6 and IE7, unfortunately.
February 23, 2009:
Computer Diary: SQL vs GREP with 230K lines (12MB) GeoLite: I like to index all my texts (articles, emails) according 'geonames', a database of locations, for that purpose I found a CSV from MaxMind.com: GeoliteCity , and started to create a database with DBD:..
January 24, 2009:
Computer Diary: Kubuntu 8.1: Eye-Candy & Memory Waste: A disk failure made me drop FreeBSD 7.0 & KDE 3.1 and switch to Kubuntu 8.1
& Linux 2.6.2x for the desktop, and hoping the Flash plugin would work
better and more up-to-date version would work along..
January 22, 2009:
Computer Diary: Firefox 2.0.x / 3.0.x - Memory Waste:
Ranting About Something like a Web-Browser
Software: Firefox 2.0.0.x (Update: also applies to 3.0.x)
Summary: Using intense amount of memory
Remedy: Opera for FreeBSD
Ok, I have been fan of open so..
January 20, 2009:
Barack Obama: First version with three of his speeches, including his inaugural speech January 20, 2009.
December 19, 2008:
Protection of ...: First version based on a discussion in a forum, about the protection (while dreaming) and general awareness of different planes.
November 25, 2008:
My Experiences with Channeling: First version based on an online discussion I contributed to.
November 19, 2008:
Art: Nicer presentation of photos, and 'Lake Reflection' series added.
November 10, 2008:
Spirituality: Resurrected some of the older spiritual articles I wrote for SpiritWeb.org back in 1994-1997 (for now password protected): Reincarnation, Multidimensional Realities, Third Eye, Art of Descension, Spiritual Evolution, I Am The Light, Sleeping Humankind, and also Numbers.
November 6, 2008:
Quotes: First version with a few quotes, as well programmed random quotes on all other pages.
September 15, 2008:
Fateba L1 Longrider: Upgrade: solar panel attached to frame, maintenance book started.
September 2, 2008:
Mobility: First version with a list of common ways to be mobile (walking, cycling, car etc).
August 29, 2008:
EBikes: First version.
E-Motion California: First version of e-bike with photos and opening the control electronic box.
August 22, 2008:
2008: Tour de Romandie: Tour diary with photos online.
August 8, 2008:
2008: Zug - Bern - Zug: Tour diary online.
August 7, 2008:
Fateba L1 Longrider: Upgrades: fender extensions and chain protection with PVC tube.
Travel: Div. smaller tours: Zug - Bern - Zug (1 day tour).
July 26, 2008:
2008: Strasbourg: Longdistance 2-day tour from Steinhausen (Switzerland) to Strasbourg (France).
July 20, 2008:
Fateba L1 Longrider: Added old brochure Fateba "Long Bike" scan and PDF.
July 14, 2008:
2008: Europe: Travel diary online in english too.
July 12, 2008:
Travel: More details on France, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic and Austria after my Europe trip.
April 9, 2008:
Spirituality: Added more personal views on spirituality & spiritual path, and illustrations.
March 1, 2008:
2004: USA: Denver - Sedona: First english version of the diary.
February 17, 2008:
2005: France & Italy: First english version with a bit rushed translation, with all photos.
January 30, 2008:
Recumbents: A bit history on recumbents, discussion of diamond frame (DF) vs recumbents, and a small section of bicycle science.
January 19, 2008:
Street Machine Gt Shortrider: First photos and short review.
January 7, 2008:
Recumbents: Included information on hubdynamo.
January 3, 2008:
Travel: More details riding in Switzerland, France and Italy.
December 12, 2007:
20XX: USA: Updated the tour, added additional coast-to-coast routes of Hwy 50, Adventure Cycling Association and RAAM.
December 5, 2007:
Fateba L1 Longrider: A few photos with closeups of my Fateba L1 recumbent.
December 2, 2007:
Recumbents: Included references of longrider and first version of Avatar 2000 by Dave Wilson.
November 27, 2007:
Recumbents: Completed overview and more links, and included in this site as well.
November 26, 2007:
Travel: Hints on riding in Switzerland, France and Italy.
November 22, 2007:
Home: Bilingual homepage and navigation, not yet all pages translated.
November 21, 2007:
Travel: More photos from travelings, and now all travel diaries online.
November 16, 2007:
Home: New design and more pages like Living and Webcam.
October 10, 2007:
Spirituality: A brief overview on some spiritual topics.
February 21, 2007:
Recumbent Meta: Starting version 2: only using two bicycles (instead of 3 of version 1).
March 20, 2006:
Recumbent Meta: First version.
February 25, 2006:
20XX: USA: First version, preparing the tour.
February 18, 2006:
Recumbents: First version, with three main types of recumbents.
My Experiences with Channeling
