there’s a new feature that i recently finished implementing.
if i’m not at home, there is now a field called “location”, which will give you the name of the place of where i’m currently staying, and google-maps* and mapquest views of that exact location.
you might have to zoom out at google-maps, though…
you can try it with this post, for example.
after contemplating for a long time, anton and i decided to go see what it’s all about.
last saturday, several of innsbruck’s universities and scientific centers put on a collective open day night, called lange nacht der forschung.
while the whole event was clearly targeted at laypersons, i still thought it was nice. two shuttle bus routes through innsbruck were frequented every 15 minutes or so, there was free food & drinks near many stations, and the presentations were quite interesting (although we already knew much of what was said there).
i especially liked the topic of nano technology, with interesting showcase items like ferrofluids (wikipedia: [de], [en]).
we could also take a glance at a quantum computer, watch some 3D-visualizations (using polarizing glasses and all that) in an astronomy presentation, and had our fun with a thermographic camera.
unfortunately, there was not enough time to attend the guided tour through a production facility for hearing-aid implants.
[view photos: lange nacht der forschung]
i never got to post this *here*, but there it is now:
in the last few months, every now and then i found some time to play with my JG-RC2 and i’m really content.
the final firmware isn’t available yet, but i’m fine with the preliminary one, so far. (that’s how i got it in the first place – the final product version is not available, so i ordered the beta-version. but only the firmware will be different in the final version – and it’s upgradeable.)
cindy sent me the link to this cool website: www.gigapxl.org.
they take pictures on a very large film format and scan them afterwards. they’re currently getting about 4 gigapixels out of this, with outstanding pictures to present in their galleries. the level of detail is astonishing!
i know i shoudln’t be surprised, because it *is* a small world, but i was: in the travelogue, i found a mention of adam tow, who is a friend of eric cheng.
so basically, i know the gigapxl team members through a friend of a friend :razz:
some time ago, my internet provider inode published this press release on their website:
the fun part about this is the typo in the last sentence, that makes it say “of course, the package also includes email addresses, webspace, viruses and spam protection”.
yay – free viruses for every customer ;-)
but besides – i think it would be really cool to have a 12Mbit dsl line at home!
i’m really happy to be a customer of inode – they offer good and reliable* service to a competitive price.
* not like some webspace provider that won’t allow the word “E-Mail” to pass their security filter, so i have to replace the “M” with M
memo to self: this is how you create an encrypted password for the .htpasswd file through a php-script:
$password = "yourpasswd";
$encrypted = crypt($password,substr($password,0,2));
echo "$password >> $encrypted";just recently, i discovered a firefox extension called “firesomething”.
i think the idea is funny: firefox kind-of has a long history of previous names that had to be changed because of copyright/same name issues: phoenix was changed to firebird, which was then altered to firefox.
this is where firesomething joins – it creates random window titles everytime you start firefox.
right now, i’m surfing with mozilla hypnobee. :mrgreen:
i also liked this quote from the extension-page:
completely unrelated:
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