Author Archives: joachim

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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Apple Expo 2003

Posted on September 24, 2003 by joachim

Last week-end, I was in Paris visiting some relatives and what a coincidence: It was the the last day of this year’s Apple Expo, so I thought I’ll stop by. Of course, I saw the new 15″ PowerBook and other … Continue reading →

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Apple uses XHTML

Posted on September 8, 2003 by joachim

I was quite surprised to see that Apple is slowly moving to modern Web technologies. The new iPod web pages use XHTML 1.0 with CSS2, the other pages still claim to be using HTML 4.0 Transitional (with a little bit … Continue reading →

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Beaver

Posted on September 2, 2003 by joachim

While surfing the web before getting really starting with work this morning, I discovered the existance of a promising RSS aggregation tool running on Windows called Beaver. While it can’t beat NetNewsWire for Mac OS X by any means, it … Continue reading →

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Trainingship

Posted on August 29, 2003 by joachim

Since everyone seems to wonder how things are going with my trainingship at ESOC/ESA in Darmstadt, I thought I’d share some impressions I had until now. There are two ‘dimensions’ or even more about a trainingship I think. The first … Continue reading →

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dasBlog

Posted on August 25, 2003 by joachim

I am wondering about the trackback functionality of this weblog system. I know that you can ping other URLs using dasBlog. But can I ping an URL of a dasBlog entry? I guess no although MT said the pings were … Continue reading →

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OO Design for PHP

Posted on August 25, 2003 by joachim

I am asking myself how much sense it makes to apply standard OO design to projects written in PHP, a language which lacks some essentials OO functionality in the current production release. You end up spending a lot of time … Continue reading →

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Huebi

Posted on August 20, 2003 by joachim

Another weblog has rised out of the shadows of the internet. I am pleased to see that Huebi just started a brand new weblog called and available at virtual-existence.ch. Ja weisch 🙂

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Mozilla Firebird Progress

Posted on August 13, 2003 by joachim

If you are using or intend to use nightly builds of the Mozilla Firebird Browser, I suggest you have a look at The Burning Edge to stay informed about new added features, bug fixes or regressions of the software.