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Geek Stuff
Out of the Office
Well I Was bored during lunch and I had to write an out of office reply anyway. So I thought why not a limerick. I am currently taking a break. So I hope nothing is at stake. In case of issues gigantic, Or any uncontainable panic, A call is not going to ache. I hope [...]
DIY Lasercut Microphone Shock Mount
Why? Everything started with editing an episode of nerddorf radio. We use a SE1000A from sE Electronics that I bought from reddogmusic here in Edinburgh. And it is a great mic, especially now that it is on offer. We have a lot of problems because we are using just one mic to record the four [...]
Old video games are kind of hard
Now, that I am back on writing my thesis, I need something entertainment for my evenings. And so I decided that I play along with the game club from the RebelFM guys. Splinter Cell – Chaos theory, man is that game weird. First I was shocked about the way it looks, washed out and quiet [...]
Sketch out your ideas wherever you are
[galleria] The few sketches above where made on my phone on the bus with a little tool called sketchbook mobile. I was thinking about writing about autodesk’s sketchbook pro for a while but never find the time. But the new Sketchbook mobile is so amazing I had to do it. The software is reduced to [...]
The Internet manifest (in English)
A bunch of web-affine journalists and bloggers from Germany are trying to explain to the journalism industry, what its problem is and how it can survive. I took the liberty of a to translate it in English. Because I think that this is not just a German problem. I also have a google docs version [...]
About stones and gardens
The master was watching his apprentice for almost a hour now. The master was smiling. What are you doing? I am trying to remove this stone. What is holding you back then. It is very heavy, master Maybe, it belongs on this spot, than No, I didn’t put it there. Somebody must have left it [...]
Buy proper Microphones When you want to podcast
Well I always through that the whole techno babble in podcasts are bullshit. But I understand it now. I was thinking about starting my own Podcast project for while. And the first recording trial with my macbook have been promising. But as you can imagine after five minutes my inner geek arose. You can here [...]
Love was written in notes
(Youtube Direktgondry, via Nerdcore, via Polkarobot) Music is and has always been the best way of expressing love and Michel Gondry  proofs this with „Carol Brown“ once again.
Google Talk Widget- Good Idea But doesn’t work
Well I was hopping that the google talk patch would work but It does not look like it. So use my twitter. http://www.twitter.com/jensemann  
3D Printing – Hands-on experience
Today I got to play with a 310 from zCorp. Nice tool I have to say. This is a powder binder system based monochrome 3D printer. That means that powder is filled in a hole layer by layer and a inkjet nozzle basically paints the appropriate cross section on it and therefore the powder is [...]
UGO buys 1UP – And my entertainment schedule is ruined
Well, after not having a TV for the last tree and a bit years I was able to cover my daily craving for news, information and entertainment entirely by the web. Audio and video podcast together with the shire amount nonsense that found its way on my screen through twitter. My girlfriend and I became [...]
“Sharepoint, I hate sharepoint especially 2003″
As some of you might know I got a new job a couple of weeks ago. Its a KTP a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, in theory a pretty nifty idea. You take a bunch of academics and put them into industry projects. Then you give them some inside on management and let them transport the bleeding [...]
I want internet everywhere
I am just sitting in the bus and I want internet. This is ridiculous I am so used to have internet on my iphone that I find it strange not to have it on my laptop. In 2008 we could have internet everywhere but due to greedy Telcos we are still stuck in the twentieth [...]
ESTC 2008.1
I am in Greenwich, London at the moment at the ESTC2008 (Electronics and System-Integration Technology conference). And I am going to enjoy three day of electrical engineering geekery at it’s finest. I am starting now with a session on “Electronics Integration for Healthcare: Materials and Processes”by James Lee. The first talk is on “Versatile low [...]
Iphone blogging
Well I just installed wordpress for iPhone and I already love it. Great work Thanks Jens
M.A.S.K TAS – Nostalgia on DVD
After more than twenty year I was able to obtain the fist 38! episodes of my second most beloved toy cartoon series from the 80s (and this for £10). M.a.s.k. the Mobile Armored Strike Kommand was a secret organisation financed by an super rich U.S. entrepreneur who was fighting an bunch of rockers and punks [...]
The adventure begins
Holy Crap, After ten month I was able to convince our landlord/letting agency to fix our bath. It was just possible by using financial force (refused to pay the full rent). Well, tomorrow the plumber will start to take the tiles from the wall. The schedule says that the works will be finished on Friday. [...]
There is more coming soon
I wanted blog directly from my trip to Nice last week, but the C?¥te d’azur is from an IT point of view third world. But I did a few articles and going to release them soon. Thanks Jens
Better than 8 Bit
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Can I get this with workbench?
You know I do normally not write about products but this was to good to be true. And I just which I could get it with OS X. But I have to say, that it brings up some sentiment up on the first computer I paid for myself. J (via)
Berlin, ein Million ?ºberwachte Telefongespr?§che
Aus Tim Pritloves feed ist eben diese Meldung herraus gefallenen: Eine Million Telefonate abgeh??rt BERLIN – Im vergangenen Jahr sind in Berlin knapp eine Million Telefongespr?§che abgeh??rt worden. Wie der Senat mitteilte, stieg die Zahl im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um rund ein Prozent von 922.000 auf 937.000. In 178 Ermittlungsverfahren habe die Staatsanwaltschaft Telefon?ºberwachung angeordnet, [...]
Dear Uncle Steve
This was supposed to be the big day, the day after the Preview for the SDK. And I felt good, Uncle Steve was thinking different again. The opening of the iPhone for 3rd Party developer was the reason for me to go for the iPhone. And as an apple user on priciple (since OS 8.1), [...]
Mars Edit
It was just enough. I could not stand the bad build-in editor of wordpress anymore so I tried a couple of editors out. And this¬†is exactly what I was looking for, Mars Edit.Clean and easy interface, accurate post preview and all of that for a fair price. If you don’t like wordpress’ editor try out [...]
Chaosradio im Wandel
Also ich weiss ja nicht was da schon wieder los ist. Tim hat heute einen Artikel auf demChaosradio Blog geschrieben in dem er die Ver?§nderungen die Chaosradio bei Fritz gemacht hat rechtfertigt.Jetzt mal ehrlich was soll das denn, klar hat sich Chaosradio ver?§ndert ja es ist zu kurz, aber es hat doch nicht an Tiefe [...]