I hate travel. No that is wrong. I hate business travel by plane. Especially on fridays.

I think it might be some kind of early childhood trauma. It feels like being grounded. You have to be sit in a place you don’t really mind, but you would rather be somewhere else. In the beginning you tell yourself that it is actually not that bad. And so you arrange yourself with the situation. You read a bit, listen some music and maybe even have a drink. Your in complete denial.

You can feel it crawling towards you. Silent and vicious, like a dark skinned serpent approaching it prey, it changes everything.Frustration.

You suddenly realise that you are stuck. The door is closed and it seems like you are the only one that didn’t get a key.

You glaze on you watch. Three hours, and still no gate announced. You still sit in the same spot. The scenery is changing constantly, people arriving, people boarding. If you stop focusing your view shapes are blurring, colours are mixing. Faces and voices sublimate into a formless, surreal haze. It makes you dizzy. And aggressive.

But you behave. You tense up. You are afraid that your boiling guts might just rip you apart and kill a few of the unlucky bystanders. So you get up. I give my feed something to do. Displacement activity

Browsing. For the seventh time you scan the covers of magazines that you are never going to buy anyway. And why would you? You are carrying a paper, a book and your work folder already in your bag. Questions arise, who the poor bastard might be that is making a living from dead wood. Dead wood filled with stuff that is just desired only by men and women force by the very same desperation that you are facing at the moment.

Desire! Yes, that’s it. The desire to break free from this nightmare of creeping boredom. The craving for solitary. The yearning for openness of the world on the outside of the terminal. And terminal it is. Hope? All hope vanished when the a woman’s voice for the forth time that your flight will be delay for another hour. You reached a point where not even your hate is left. And you surrender.

“Passengers flying on the BMI flight 5555 to Edinburgh can now board from gate number 8. We apologise again for the slight delay and for any inconvenience caused.”

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

Podcasts

I am a hardcore podcast listener and you know that I am sometimes also write some more or less interesting blog entries. I would love the capability to quote sections of certain podcasts to comment on them or to use them as a sources for some statements. But this is a real pain at the moment. You have to write down what the time was of the comment, import the podcast in garageband or any other audio editor at hand, make new file out of it, tag it, upload it and integrate it in you blog post. That means you will not do it, never, ever.

So what I want is a possibility to just jump back a couple of seconds, set a start marker, wait to the end of the quote press again to set an end marker, get the waveform displayed so that i can adjust the waveform by pinching it into the boundaries, than get a text field/Headline field write my short blog entry and than upload it directly from there or if I don’t have a proper connection, let iTunes upload it to my blog while syncing.

Is that asked to much?

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 century. I wish that they are going to realise better sooner than later that offering mobile internet to affordable flat rate prices will generate more money than trying to charge people per minute.
And now that I am ranting about Telcos get a proper European system. I want use my cellphone everywhere in Europe without worrying about roaming charges. The most companies are in all European countries anyway. So fuck it with the “but I is complicated so we have to charge you huge

Cheers
J

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 cost wafer-level packaging enabled by powderblasting“.

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Just had a brilliant error message while trying to connect to the app store over wifi. And I have no idea what to do with it.

Well I just installed wordpress for iPhone and I already love it. Great work
Thanks
Jens

work work work

it took me 90 min to finish my oder and then I was not able to see if my oder was placed for another 90 min. Web 2.0 uuuuahaha Amateurs

As good as the UI of the macs is as bad is the UI of the apple online shop