today was the second time i received the following email within two weeks:

Die Firma Ericsson verteilt Handys. und das gratis übers Internet, um der Marke Nokia entgegen zu wirken, welche dasselbe macht. Ericsson will sich damit bekannter machen. Deshalb verteilt das Unternehmen jetzt gratis das neue WAP-Handy. Alles was zu tun ist, ist diese Mail an acht Leute zu schicken. In etwa zwei Wochen erhält man dann ein Ericsson T 18. Wenn die Nachricht an 20 oder mehr Personen verschickt wird, erhält man sogar ein Ericsson R320 WAP-Phone.

the main message of this chain email: forward the email to at least 8 of your friends and receive an ericsson t18. forward it to 20 or more, and receive a free ericsson r320.

i find it stunning that the hoax has prevailed for so long, and is still very active. especially considering that the r320 was released in 1999! also, note how it says “ericsson” instead of “sony ericsson”.
both of these cellphones had monochrome displays (naturally), the t18 one only had two lines. you’d probably get some money along with it if you decided to take one. :-)
 

life would be a much better place if people did an internet search before forwarding this crap.
on the other hand, this particular one made me reminisce about the old days, when internet connections were dial-up and expensive as hell…

ich verwende firefox 2.0.0.12 und bin im studivz registriert. seit der umstellung des nachrichtendienstes anfang dieses jahres konnte ich studivz-nachrichten nicht mehr anzeigen lassen, weil der dazugehörige link scheinbar nicht funktionierte.
das problem konnte ich nach etwas herum-testen ausfindig machen: das firefox-addon “geo 0.7″.
wenn geo deaktiviert ist, funktioniert bei mir auch das vz-messaging wieder.

vielleicht nützt diese erkenntnis ja dem einen oder anderen vz-user etwas…

my new sound card has lots of preset values for different environments, for example “living room”, “hallway”, “hallway with carpets”, …
in the list of available settings, i also found some …”less probable” situations to put a desktop sound card to use:

preset configurations for use in a parking space,
padded room, airplane hangar or waste pipe.

never say never! ;)

ich hatte anfang dezember die gelegenheit, das aon kombipaket zu testen.
für das hausinterne LAN und WLAN wollte ich mich natürlich nicht mit jedem einzelnen PC via VPN einwählen müssen - die konfiguration meines routers (d-link 707p) war ein kinderspiel. nach wenigen einstellungen war die verbindung hergestellt.
 

die nötigen einstellungen¹ sind hier zu finden: [aon kombipaket + router]

it took me until now to start using permalinks. the main reason: in all my previous posts, i had included images manually with the relative URI — e.g. <img src="2007/12/01/test.jpg”>.
the permalink for this post is a virtual folder
www.thinkoholic.com/2007/12/23/wordpress-permalinks-and-local-images/
and so the above image is looked for under
www.thinkoholic.com/2007/12/23/wordpress-permalinks[...]/2007/12/01/test.jpg
it’s not there of course, so it won’t be displayed correctly.
the problem is similar for internal links such as <a href="gallery.php”>.

instead of correcting every single post manually, i just added the following lines to wordpress/wp-includes/formatting.php, line 28:

$curl = str_replace('src="', 'src="/', $curl);
$curl = str_replace('src="/http://', 'src="http://', $curl);
$curl = str_replace('href="', 'href="/', $curl);
$curl = str_replace('href="/http://', 'href="http://', $curl);

lines 1 and 3 add the necessary root-slash to every src and href, lines 2 and 4 remove them for all external links.

if your all of your images and/or internal pages are in a subfolder, change the first and third line accordingly:

$curl = str_replace('src="', 'src="/subfolder/', $curl);

more than two years ago, i read about eric’s first encounter with a light field plenoptic camera, and was fascinated by the very idea.
today, i saw a presentation by dave story from adobe (video at the end of the article), in which he talks about their development of a lens that has very similar functions and (i believe) is based on the same principle.
of course, adobe also has the proper photoshop-tools that make it possible to deal with the new load of digital information.

i’ve added a little script to display exif information for my photos.
when available (most of the recently-uploaded ones should be covered), there will be a [show-exif]-link on the single-photo pages.

for an example just, click on the righthand image.