This one’s from 2005, almost six years ago. Let’s see:

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On the other hand, not playing has left a huge gap. In my opinion, gaming is a huge plus, as it not only helps you take your mind off everyday life, but also has plenty other benefits, such as training your brain (really), or even social bonus, in case you like to hook up with others. I really do miss it.

Anyway, it’s now time to add Steam to my iMac and try out Half Life 2- I do hope it is at least as good as it used to be years ago, and I guess that is not too much to ask?

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People are interested in more than just one topic, and prefer to keep their relationships in one singe, manageable place. At least, that is a theory I find quite appealing and it is perhaps justified when looking at how the big networks are evolving. Facebook is the obvious one, and following initial doubt, I find myself using it for all kinds of purposes – simply for the reason that everyone’s there, and most of the functionality I need is to be found there. Clever.

This begs the question as to how publications like FWnetz will find their place – it doesn’t make sense to run an own network. Enter clever extentions like the “like” button (I’ve installed the plugin here to test), and two things happen: first, dependency on a single network, ie Facebook, increases even further, but second, “community” is now sort of ported outside facebook. It’s quite appealing, easy, and the benefits outweigh possible issues. I’ve made my decision.

Still, it would be utter madness to totally depend on someone else, which is why there is a limit to “intertwineness”. But where is it?

As for the plugin, I still can’t figure out how to edit the blank space beneath. When that’s done, there is no reason why it shouldn’t make an appearance on FWnetz.

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Waiting for a good friend to show up. We’d arranged to meet at a Starbucks, but through some misunderstanding, we both ended up at the wrong place. The situation was easily remedied through use of a mobile phone. By the time he showed up I’d finished my first cup of coffee (picture with cup and arriving friend in the distance).

I wondered: what would we have done 20 years ago? I suppose I’d have waited for about half an hour, tried to find a public telephone and – provided I had coins- tried to call him at home. And would then have moved on. Times have changed indeed.

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Since everyone has got an opinion about the iPad, I’ll pitch in with mine. Following the above App video by Wired, which  – at least the US version – happens to be my favourite mag, I am absolutely convinced that it is a game changer. As for the reasoning, I’ll follow Stephen Fry’s thoughts – it’s not really for advanced social medialites, whoever they are, but rather for everyone. Everyone is where the money is. It’s easy to use, and to judge by the above video, it’s amazing. I am more than willing to pay for a subscription.

Also, I think this will work for any kind of publication, whether daily, weekly or monthly (or less), if understood and well done. It’s about the experience and value. I’d be glad to see the saved distribution costs re-routed to the production of interactive, social and what more content, in other words an allround excellent experience. Perhaps we will at last see a major paradigm shift in the next few years.

Ideally, it’d be platform independent, whether Apple or any other, but somehow i have my doubts about this. We’ll see what happens, but it sure looks promising. And that’s regardless of how much of a flash-free mockup this video is.

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Starting a new job in October comes with a few changes, including giving up my MacBook Pro. Victoria now uses it, as I’ll be getting a Windows company laptop. Honestly, I don’t really care or mind, there are more important issues in life. “Home base” will be the iMac, which so far has primarly been used as a video editing machine.

The move includes all my music, so it’s iTunes library to hard disk to iMac, and I seem to have lost one fifth of all music. which seems to have been stored in various places prior to deletion. Here’s where senuti (iTunes backwards) comes in handy. It’s not straightforward, but does install flawlessly (osx 10.5) and does retrieve those missing songs from the iPod, which is pretty handy.

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This is as much a test of ecto, which I’ve just installed, as a wish to show a picture I took last Sunday. These guys are performing a Leistungsprüfung, which is like an aptitude check, with the small difference that it was acted: this is a recreation of a test taken back in 1961, including uniforms, fire engine and the like.

Interesting factoids: the basic Löschgruppe (Team of 9 Firefighters) includes the Löschtrupp (extinguishing team), as it was called then. Today, this attack team is called Angriffstrupp. Apparently, it was then unfashionable, or rather politically incorrect to use the word Angriff. Same goes for the Group Leader, or Gruppenführer. I still find the word Führer somewhat awkward, but have gotten used to it. Back then, this was also a no-no, so that position was called Löschmeister (extinguishing master, literally).

There’s a video of the test here, and some picture here . The aptitude test still exists today, although slightly adapted to modern firefighting. The purpose is to demonstrate that a team is trained and that the equipment is working, also it’s a bit of tradition and comradeship.

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I used to work with ecto a while ago, and I’ve downloaded it again, just to test. Looks promising as I definitely prefer to work offline. Would be a huge bonus to work like this while on the road.

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