So, 11. Juli, 2010:
Mobility Diary: Solar Powered Airplane: Solar Impulse: In a century which brought a lot of invention about mobility, recent developments only pretend to be real innovations, but mostly refinements of existing ideas, concepts and realizations.
Sa, 10. Juli, 2010:
Living Diary: More Alternative Houses: Treehouses in Sweden: I have been focusing on alternative houses before, here some further treehouses, bringing the childhood dreams of many into reality.
Mirror Cube
Mirror Cube
Hanging about 4-6m up in a tree - visu..
Mo, 19. April, 2010:
Roulandt Longrider: First version, with photos.
Di, 26. Januar, 2010:
Computer Diary: Cellphone Networks: Thieves, Insanity & Crap: I moved from Switzerland to France, and I thought I just buy a new phone "S by SFR 112" and test a new french phone-carrier, in my case SFR.fr.
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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Di, 19. Januar, 2010:
Art Diary: Geodesic Bamboo Dome: A geodesic icosahedron-based bamboo dome (6.40m diameter, 4v frequency, 250 pieces) pitched at my place:
&nbs..
Mo, 21. Dezember, 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 . .
Sa, 3. Oktober, 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.
Sa, 26. September, 2009:
Computer Diary: MacOS-X for a UNIX Man with a PC: Dell Latitude D600
Well, I've got another occassion laptop, a Dell Latitude D600 (2004):
1.4GHz Pentium M
512MB RAM (2x 256MB, max 2GB)
14.1" 1024x768
IDE 20GB local disk
The 1024x768 are meager, b..
Di, 22. September, 2009:
Computer Diary: Windows XP for a UNIX Man: Dell Latitude C600 Laptop
I got an older Dell Latitude C600 (2003), with 1440x1050 pixels large 14.1" LCD screen, still functional, but 256MB RAM only (upgraded to 384MB).
Mo, 14. September, 2009:
2009: France: Two Tours: Adding a few notes of my 2nd round touring through France.
Di, 21. Juli, 2009:
2009: France: Two Tours: First draft with overview, no detailed diary yet.
So, 7. Juni, 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..
Do, 4. Juni, 2009:
Barack Obama: Rede an die muslimische Welt: Ein Neubeginn - Kairo, Ägypten 2009/04/06.
Mi, 3. Juni, 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..
Di, 2. Juni, 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..
Di, 19. Mai, 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.
Mo, 18. Mai, 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..
Mi, 22. April, 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.
Sa, 18. April, 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.
Do, 16. April, 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 09:55 2006/12/05 14:30
Sou..
Mi, 15. April, 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();
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Di, 14. April, 2009:
Mobilität: Diverse Vehikel (SAM, Loremo, Obvio 828, Tesla Roadster, Solar Taxi) der Liste beigefügt, die ich in Mobility Diary portraitiert habe.
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.
Mo, 13. April, 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..
Sa, 11. April, 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 ..
Fr, 10. April, 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..
Mi, 8. April, 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..
Di, 7. April, 2009:
Living Diary: Brain Storming: The World Government Swiss-Made: A little brain storming . . .
Di, 31. März, 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..
So, 29. März, 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..
Sa, 28. März, 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.
Mi, 25. März, 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..
Mi, 18. März, 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.
Sa, 14. März, 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.
Do, 12. März, 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..
Sa, 7. März, 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.
Fr, 6. März, 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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Di, 3. März, 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..
Di, 24. Februar, 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.
Mo, 23. Februar, 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:..
Sa, 24. Januar, 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..
Do, 22. Januar, 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..
Di, 20. Januar, 2009:
Barack Obama: Erster Version mit zwei Reden von ihm, inkl. anlässlich seiner Amtseinführung am 20. Januar 2009.
Fr, 19. Dezember, 2008:
Protection of ...: First version based on a discussion in a forum, about the protection (while dreaming) and general awareness of different planes.
Mi, 19. November, 2008:
Art: Nicer presentation of photos, and 'Lake Reflection' series added.
Mo, 10. November, 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.
Do, 6. November, 2008:
Zitate: Erste Version mit ein paar Zitaten, und zufällige Zitate auf allen anderen Seiten.
Mo, 15. September, 2008:
Fateba L1 Langlieger: Upgrade: Solarpanel am Rahmen; Unterhaltsbuch begonnen.
Di, 2. September, 2008:
Mobilität: Erste Version mit einer Liste von verschiedenen Vehikel sich fortzubewegen (Gehen, Fahrradfahren, Auto etc).
Fr, 29. August, 2008:
EBikes: Erste Version.
E-Motion California: Erste Version des E-Bike, Fotos und Öffnung der Kontrolelektronik.
Fr, 22. August, 2008:
2008: Tour de Romandie: Tourtagebuch mit Fotos.
Fr, 8. August, 2008:
2008: Zug - Bern - Zug: Tourtagebuch online.
Do, 7. August, 2008:
Fateba L1 Langlieger: Upgrades: Schutzblecherweiterung und Kettenschutz mit PVC Schlauch.
Reisen: Div. kleine Touren: Zug - Bern - Zug (1 Tagestour).
Sa, 26. Juli, 2008:
2008: Strassburg: Langdistanz 2-Tage Tour von Steinhausen/Zug (CH) nach Strassburg (F).
So, 20. Juli, 2008:
Fateba L1 Langlieger: Fateba "Long Bike" Borchure als Scan bzw. PDF.
Sa, 12. Juli, 2008:
Reisen: Mehr Details über Frankreich, Italien, Deutschland, Tschechien und Österreich nach meiner Europatour.
Mi, 9. Juli, 2008:
2008: Europa: Reisetagebuch online in deutsch vorerst.
Mi, 9. April, 2008:
Spirituality: Added more personal views on spirituality & spiritual path, and illustrations.
Mi, 30. Januar, 2008:
Liegeräder / Liegefahrräder / Liegevelos : Eine kleine Geschichte des (Liege-)Fahrrades.
Sa, 19. Januar, 2008:
Street Machine Gt Kurzlieger: Ein paar Fotos und eine Einschätzung.
Mo, 7. Januar, 2008:
Liegeräder / Liegefahrräder / Liegevelos : Ein paar Informationen über Nabendynamo.
Do, 3. Januar, 2008:
Reisen: Mehr Details über Velorouten in der Schweiz, Frankreich und Italien.
Mi, 5. Dezember, 2007:
Fateba L1 Langlieger: Ein paar Fotos von meinem Fateba L1 Langlieger.
Mo, 3. Dezember, 2007:
Liegeräder / Liegefahrräder / Liegevelos : Erste deutsche Version der Seite, aus der englischen Version übersetzt.
Mo, 26. November, 2007:
Reisen: Ein paar Hinweise von Velorouten in der Schweiz, und Kurz-Info über Velofahren in Frankreich und Italien.
Do, 22. November, 2007:
Home: Zweisprachige Homepage, aber noch nicht alle Seiten übersetzt.
Mi, 21. November, 2007:
Reisen: Mehr Bilder der Reisen, und nun alle Reisetagebücher online.
Fr, 16. November, 2007:
2005: Frankreich & Italien: Tagebuch wieder online, mit hunderten von Fotos.
Home: Neues Design und mehr Seiten, wie Leben, und Webcam.
Mi, 10. Oktober, 2007:
Spirituality: A brief overview on some spiritual topics.
Mi, 21. Februar, 2007:
Recumbent Meta: Starting version 2: only using two bicycles (instead of 3 of version 1).
Mo, 20. März, 2006:
Recumbent Meta: First version.
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