Yearly Archives: 2003

Kill Bill

Posted on November 15, 2003 by joachim

It was time for a new log entry, so I decided to write some lines about the movie Kill Bill I saw yesterday evening. First, I have to say that this is the best Tarantino movie I have ever seen. … Continue reading →

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Comment Spam

Posted on October 24, 2003 by joachim

It’s unbelievable, there were about 5 spam comments in this web-log. I banned the originator IP numbers for now, but I think there should be a better solution. If comment spamming would not stop, I would have to deactivate the … Continue reading →

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Back in Town

Posted on October 24, 2003 by joachim

It has been almost one week since I returned from Darmstadt (Germany) to Zurich. There were quite a lot of things going on during the first days of this semester at university. I also managed to repair my homepage and … Continue reading →

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PowerToys for Windows

Posted on October 4, 2003 by joachim

Ben blogs about a way to bring Exposé functionality to Windows XP. Using the Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP, you can have an adequate replacement for Exposé. I would like to have some more information about that, since there where … Continue reading →

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Overtime

Posted on October 4, 2003 by joachim

For the last couple of days (or even weeks?) I have been working overtime at ESA. It’s like the worst paid employees have the highest work time. Indeed, if I had a regular positon here, I would not do such … Continue reading →

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Awesome looking laptop?

Posted on September 28, 2003 by joachim

Ben thinks, his new laptop from HP is an “awsome” looking laptop. First of all, “awsome” is really spelled “awesome”, and second, if you want to know how awesome looking laptops really look like, you better check out Apple‘s brand … Continue reading →

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Customer driven development

Posted on September 28, 2003 by joachim

As Huebi stated on his weblog that he wanted to install ImageAlbum, I thought I might release an updated version of it with easier application setup and some bigfixes. I hope I will have the release ready in a few … Continue reading →

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SMART-1 launch was successfull

Posted on September 28, 2003 by joachim

Europe’s first science spacecraft designed to orbit the Moon, has completed the first part of its journey by achieving its initial Earth orbit after a flawless launch last night. That’s great. More information.

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iSight

Posted on September 27, 2003 by joachim

Since yesterday at 8:05 p.m. I am the owner of a brand new iSight camera. This is such a nice product, both the technical and design aspects are outstanding. Too bad iChat AV requires a 100 kbps uplink network speed … Continue reading →

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Die Bahn

Posted on September 24, 2003 by joachim

On my way from Darmstadt to Paris last friday, the train had technical problems and so I arrived 30 minutes late. The other times I used the “Deutsche Bahn”, the trains were all delayed too. Is that coincidence?

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