Idiotes are everywere
2008-11-16 04:46 Abgelegt in:Private
(english)
Hm that’s strange, I was looking fore some
information about Suzanne Vega.... you know the singer
who did “Tom’s Dinner“ the ultimate
test for the now standard music format MP3.
And what did I found?
A good reason not to go into movies with Russell Brand anymore. Not that I liked that guy before, but now he is definitely on my personal black list. I mean there is a line not to cross and the line is fare before what he did with his prank calls to Andrew Sachs. It already happened 10 days ago, but I just read about it, I’m not in town right now. :-/
So in general I hope for Georgina that every thing will soon be OK again. OK as it can be after something like that.
Greetings to you and keep on with your nice work!
And what did I found?
A good reason not to go into movies with Russell Brand anymore. Not that I liked that guy before, but now he is definitely on my personal black list. I mean there is a line not to cross and the line is fare before what he did with his prank calls to Andrew Sachs. It already happened 10 days ago, but I just read about it, I’m not in town right now. :-/
So in general I hope for Georgina that every thing will soon be OK again. OK as it can be after something like that.
Greetings to you and keep on with your nice work!
Sorry to the readers
2008-11-05 00:35 Abgelegt in:Technology
(english)
I want to say sorry to everyone who is still reading my
blog. In the last few month I was very busy with my
project and to travel between Beckstown and London. No
time to write anything and, to be honest, there was
nothing interesting to write about.
Sure there was a lot going in the world, but I don’t want to write about every thing that comes in my mind, especially not about politics or something like that. This blog... the whole page should be something to distract myself a bit, and also readers.... ok if they are any readers. ;-)
I have some spare time at the moment, so I could improve the galleries a bit. Keep on reading and use the RSS function for this blog to keep you informed.
Sure there was a lot going in the world, but I don’t want to write about every thing that comes in my mind, especially not about politics or something like that. This blog... the whole page should be something to distract myself a bit, and also readers.... ok if they are any readers. ;-)
I have some spare time at the moment, so I could improve the galleries a bit. Keep on reading and use the RSS function for this blog to keep you informed.
Report done
2008-10-24 18:42 Abgelegt in:School
(english)
Unfortunately I cannot submit my Report as a plain PDF
file or something so I had to fly to London and to
spend some time there. Every regular reader knows how
disappointed I was to come back to London ;-)
No serious there is something I didn’t expected. My pizza dealer on the Stables market in Camden Town, closed his shop. He told me that, but I expected that only he quits. Hmmm... one of the reasons for him was the building site there. I checked the pizzeria, but.... you know.... It’s not the same.
What else? I spend 200 quid in the local binding store for all my documents. I also wanted to have some additional prints for myself. That’s why it was so expensive. Compared to a friend of mine who spend 35 euro (28 quid) for more than 1000 pages, in Germany, that was fuing expensive! So nobody should expect that studying in London is cheap.
But I was able to hand in my report on time. A fellow student, who is working there, told me that next week will be somethings like a hell week again. All the MSc students will come and want to have print outs on the same day. Possible one week before, but not in the last week before the hand in date. And as every year, it will be a total surprise for all the students. I still cannot understand why none of them is trying to get information about a possible problem like that before.
So that’s it for now. I need a little bit of sleep before I have to surprise some friends.
No serious there is something I didn’t expected. My pizza dealer on the Stables market in Camden Town, closed his shop. He told me that, but I expected that only he quits. Hmmm... one of the reasons for him was the building site there. I checked the pizzeria, but.... you know.... It’s not the same.
What else? I spend 200 quid in the local binding store for all my documents. I also wanted to have some additional prints for myself. That’s why it was so expensive. Compared to a friend of mine who spend 35 euro (28 quid) for more than 1000 pages, in Germany, that was fuing expensive! So nobody should expect that studying in London is cheap.
But I was able to hand in my report on time. A fellow student, who is working there, told me that next week will be somethings like a hell week again. All the MSc students will come and want to have print outs on the same day. Possible one week before, but not in the last week before the hand in date. And as every year, it will be a total surprise for all the students. I still cannot understand why none of them is trying to get information about a possible problem like that before.
So that’s it for now. I need a little bit of sleep before I have to surprise some friends.
Sitting at the university...
2008-10-06 19:26 Abgelegt in:School
(english)
Ah crap! No not at the LSBU, sitting in Beckstown and
doing the writing for the MSc project.
It is just in the good old times before going to London. Sitting here and doing stuff for the university until the building is closing and you are thrown out. I don’t know why, but I’m doing something here. Not like at home where I’m just sitting lazy on the sofa.
I could think about a lot of things that I would like to do now, but that report has to be finished. So don’t cry for me Arge... Hmpf anyway. I want to go back, and I want to finish this crap even more to do thinks I like to do.
Theory is good by practical stuff is even better!
It is just in the good old times before going to London. Sitting here and doing stuff for the university until the building is closing and you are thrown out. I don’t know why, but I’m doing something here. Not like at home where I’m just sitting lazy on the sofa.
I could think about a lot of things that I would like to do now, but that report has to be finished. So don’t cry for me Arge... Hmpf anyway. I want to go back, and I want to finish this crap even more to do thinks I like to do.
Theory is good by practical stuff is even better!
iPod Touch (part three)
2008-09-30 02:42 Abgelegt in:Technology
(english)
I still don’t like that crappy iPod Touch 2G. A
few days ago I
wrote about the hardware aspects of the reason
why I don’t like it. And now I want to write
about the software aspects.
iPod Touch (part two)
2008-09-21 22:18 Abgelegt in:Technology
(english)
hmpf... as I wrote
already I bought a iPod Touch and I
don’t like it.
I just tested my ExtreamMac Micromemo microphone and speaker adapter for the dock connector. And what should I say? It doesn’t works.
Thanks Apple! Do you have a contract with every third party product producer that old hardware should not work on new models anymore, just to sell more of it? Thanks I will remember that for the next time I want to buy something.
Maybe I spend my money for something that is more compatible.
I just tested my ExtreamMac Micromemo microphone and speaker adapter for the dock connector. And what should I say? It doesn’t works.
Thanks Apple! Do you have a contract with every third party product producer that old hardware should not work on new models anymore, just to sell more of it? Thanks I will remember that for the next time I want to buy something.
Maybe I spend my money for something that is more compatible.
iPod Touch (part one)
2008-09-20 02:07 Abgelegt in:Technology
(english)
Aaaaargs. I bought the Touch only because I needed a
new MP3 player and the 16GB Nano was not available in
the Apple store in the Regent Street. I don’t
like that think. I knew it before I bought it, but I
hoped that it will change after some time.
So what are the reasons for this “I don’t like it“? I learned that you have to explain it and it is not finished after you say “I don’t like it“.
First of all I’m using Microsoft based Pocket PCs (PPC) since... hmpf since ages. My first one was a Casio Cassiopeia E-15. Which was a nice device when it came out (somewhen before 2000) and I bought it that early. So I have some experience with PDAs, especially because I had 2 others after that, did some research for my university and my final year project also included a Pocket PC.
So let me start a comparison with my first Pocket PC (or Palm-PC that’s how it was called at that time). My E-15 had two AAA rechargeable batteries. Even all later PPCs had changeable batteries, but not this crappy Touch. If the battery is empty, then you are doomed. There are some third party solutions, but I prefer original equipment.
Buttons. Ok the touch finally got 2 additional buttons for the sound (louder, quieter), an “home button“ and the power button. Good, but something like a joystick would be nice. All PPCs I know had one and sometimes it is nicer to have a button, than to use your fingers (or a pen) on the display.
Oh and it is fare more nicer to work with a pen (optional) on the display, then always with a finger. Just imagine it is cold, really cold or you have sticky fingers. Hey every pen or even a tooth picker would work on a PPC, but not on a Touch.
Memory cards. If you use your digital camera you want to see the pictures on a bigger screen. Good a PPC doesn’t have a screen like a laptop, but it is still bigger than a digital camera (at least if you don’t compare it to a Ricoh RCD-i700). Anyway, there is no way to use your Touch 2G as a display. With a PPC you could simply put the SD card into the PPC and that’s it. Even if you use a Compact Flash Card (Yes I like them!) or something else, there was always a way to use every kind of cards in my Pocket PCs.
Extensions: My Pocket PC had everything. The ability to use USB devices, an external keyboard, 100MBit/s ethernet socket, WLAN, Bluetooth, analog modem and 6GB of exchangeable storage on two cards. Ok that was the final collection of additional stuff for my final PPC (HP iPAQ 2210), but it works. I was also able to use any kind of memory cards, USB thump sticks, PCMCIA cards and I also used a 10GB external hard disk with it. And the Touch? Nothing like that. 16GB memory, WLAN and a proprietary connector. That’s it.
So give me some time to play around with the software, but I guess that is also crap.
So what are the reasons for this “I don’t like it“? I learned that you have to explain it and it is not finished after you say “I don’t like it“.
First of all I’m using Microsoft based Pocket PCs (PPC) since... hmpf since ages. My first one was a Casio Cassiopeia E-15. Which was a nice device when it came out (somewhen before 2000) and I bought it that early. So I have some experience with PDAs, especially because I had 2 others after that, did some research for my university and my final year project also included a Pocket PC.
So let me start a comparison with my first Pocket PC (or Palm-PC that’s how it was called at that time). My E-15 had two AAA rechargeable batteries. Even all later PPCs had changeable batteries, but not this crappy Touch. If the battery is empty, then you are doomed. There are some third party solutions, but I prefer original equipment.
Buttons. Ok the touch finally got 2 additional buttons for the sound (louder, quieter), an “home button“ and the power button. Good, but something like a joystick would be nice. All PPCs I know had one and sometimes it is nicer to have a button, than to use your fingers (or a pen) on the display.
Oh and it is fare more nicer to work with a pen (optional) on the display, then always with a finger. Just imagine it is cold, really cold or you have sticky fingers. Hey every pen or even a tooth picker would work on a PPC, but not on a Touch.
Memory cards. If you use your digital camera you want to see the pictures on a bigger screen. Good a PPC doesn’t have a screen like a laptop, but it is still bigger than a digital camera (at least if you don’t compare it to a Ricoh RCD-i700). Anyway, there is no way to use your Touch 2G as a display. With a PPC you could simply put the SD card into the PPC and that’s it. Even if you use a Compact Flash Card (Yes I like them!) or something else, there was always a way to use every kind of cards in my Pocket PCs.
Extensions: My Pocket PC had everything. The ability to use USB devices, an external keyboard, 100MBit/s ethernet socket, WLAN, Bluetooth, analog modem and 6GB of exchangeable storage on two cards. Ok that was the final collection of additional stuff for my final PPC (HP iPAQ 2210), but it works. I was also able to use any kind of memory cards, USB thump sticks, PCMCIA cards and I also used a 10GB external hard disk with it. And the Touch? Nothing like that. 16GB memory, WLAN and a proprietary connector. That’s it.
So give me some time to play around with the software, but I guess that is also crap.
Übergabe
2008-09-15 22:51 Abgelegt in:Life
and Living (german)
So das war’s also für’s erste mit London.
Die Butze ist übergeben und vermutlich in einem
besseren (sauberen) Zustand als beim Einzug.
Ich werde den morgen nochmal dazu nutzen einen meiner Kommilitonen zu treffen und dann geht es auch schonwieder nach Beckstown. Schade!
Ich werde den morgen nochmal dazu nutzen einen meiner Kommilitonen zu treffen und dann geht es auch schonwieder nach Beckstown. Schade!
Eurostar Fun (part four)
2008-09-13 20:44 Abgelegt in:Technology
(english)
I’m slowly getting peeves. The service is less
then crap. Anyway there are some very friendly service
personal and they maybe the only reason why I’m
not in a local police station for palpabilitys.
Just let me write down the next few things in notes.
The ICE train from Brussels was cancelled. Why don’t know. But I guess it is beause the cancelled eurostars. So we asked how else we could get to Cologne. “With a replacement bus service“. Yeah right, one fuing coach for a whole train!
The service personal in Brussels is absolutly unwilling to help or simply that stupid. Sorry, but I only know one guy from Belgium to rely on and he is not working in that business. (Greetings to you by the way!)
Back to the coach. A driver from germany who has never been in Brussels before, with a normal car navigation system. Perfect combination! The GPS always guided us into the next tunnel, which we won’t be allowed to use. That the whole coach smelled like a chemical toilette and the driver was next to be daef, that was only to make the picture perfect. “And wasn’t the trip with me better than a trip in the ICE train?” sometimes it is better to say nothing!
In Aachen (yepp the coach brought us there) the local service personal said that we could take the Thalis to Cologne in 5 minutes. Oh and yes we meet everyone who couldn’t join the coach trip! So basically 2 hours wasted in that coach.
Then we reached the IC in Cologne back to Beckstown, together with other peoples from London. But they had to go even further (further north in Germany and Denmark). I hope you enjoyed the rest of your trip as well. Greetings to you.
Back in Backstown we drove straight to the Airport and asked, if I could get another ticket or if I could change the ticket for my flight at 11 AM. Oh it was 14:00 by the way. No problem with that. For just 75 Euro instead of minimum 95 Euro for a new Ticket.
Good and now I’m back home in my London Flat and want to go to a farewell party. Good night and CU!
Just let me write down the next few things in notes.
The ICE train from Brussels was cancelled. Why don’t know. But I guess it is beause the cancelled eurostars. So we asked how else we could get to Cologne. “With a replacement bus service“. Yeah right, one fuing coach for a whole train!
The service personal in Brussels is absolutly unwilling to help or simply that stupid. Sorry, but I only know one guy from Belgium to rely on and he is not working in that business. (Greetings to you by the way!)
Back to the coach. A driver from germany who has never been in Brussels before, with a normal car navigation system. Perfect combination! The GPS always guided us into the next tunnel, which we won’t be allowed to use. That the whole coach smelled like a chemical toilette and the driver was next to be daef, that was only to make the picture perfect. “And wasn’t the trip with me better than a trip in the ICE train?” sometimes it is better to say nothing!
In Aachen (yepp the coach brought us there) the local service personal said that we could take the Thalis to Cologne in 5 minutes. Oh and yes we meet everyone who couldn’t join the coach trip! So basically 2 hours wasted in that coach.
Then we reached the IC in Cologne back to Beckstown, together with other peoples from London. But they had to go even further (further north in Germany and Denmark). I hope you enjoyed the rest of your trip as well. Greetings to you.
Back in Backstown we drove straight to the Airport and asked, if I could get another ticket or if I could change the ticket for my flight at 11 AM. Oh it was 14:00 by the way. No problem with that. For just 75 Euro instead of minimum 95 Euro for a new Ticket.
Good and now I’m back home in my London Flat and want to go to a farewell party. Good night and CU!
Eurostar Fun (part three)
2008-09-13 02:00 Abgelegt in:Technology
(english)
Tja, now we reached Brussels. What a crap! This should
be the capital of Europe?
I don’t like this city. It is always the same, if I am here. In this crappy train station with a lousy service. I mean really lousy.
Last time our Eurostar was 5 minutes late, so we missed the connection train to Cologne. The personal in the “Travel Centre” was either not willing to help or not able. Whatever... the result stays the same. Finally and after a lot of intervention we solved the problem and boarded with seventy (yepp 70!) other people the Thalis to Cologne. Oh and the Eurostar personal? Same crap over there. They where totally surprised that their train was late and had to phone there supervisors first to find out they have to give us a confirmation letter for that.
Oh and because of that we also missed the connection train in Cologne and instead of arriving at midnight in Beckstown, we arrived at 6 am. Hey, what a wonderfull world. No train connections between 9 pm and 2 am from Cologne to Beckstown.
But now we are back in this crappy town. Same shit different day. No trains before 4:50 am and no trains to Germany before 7 am. OK I don’t want to lie. No trains to Germany before 6:59 am.
What does it mean for me?
Easy to answer. If that train would go via Cologne, that would be a two hour journey and from there another 3 hours! So overall 5 hours from 7 am, mean arriving in Beckstown at 12. I will definitely miss the 11 am flight to London. Switching the Ryan Air flight is not possible at this time via Internet anymore (by the way, there is no free Internet on this fuing train station) and via telephone would cost more than one Euro per minute from a land line.... and even if I would like to spend that, it is not possible before normal working hours.
So what else, if we book the night flight on Saturday that would cost a fortune. So the only option is the early flight on Sunday. That’s crap, that’s really fuing crap!
Oh and did I wrote already that I have booked the hotel for the nights from Sunday to Tuesday for another 90 Quid?
I can not understand why this happens this way. We are in the middle of Europe. A self called civilised area of the world. And it is not possible to do this short trip without any problems. I have been to countries with a less complex and so called “third world“ countries with a better customer service and travel possibilities.
I don’t like this city. It is always the same, if I am here. In this crappy train station with a lousy service. I mean really lousy.
Last time our Eurostar was 5 minutes late, so we missed the connection train to Cologne. The personal in the “Travel Centre” was either not willing to help or not able. Whatever... the result stays the same. Finally and after a lot of intervention we solved the problem and boarded with seventy (yepp 70!) other people the Thalis to Cologne. Oh and the Eurostar personal? Same crap over there. They where totally surprised that their train was late and had to phone there supervisors first to find out they have to give us a confirmation letter for that.
Oh and because of that we also missed the connection train in Cologne and instead of arriving at midnight in Beckstown, we arrived at 6 am. Hey, what a wonderfull world. No train connections between 9 pm and 2 am from Cologne to Beckstown.
But now we are back in this crappy town. Same shit different day. No trains before 4:50 am and no trains to Germany before 7 am. OK I don’t want to lie. No trains to Germany before 6:59 am.
What does it mean for me?
Easy to answer. If that train would go via Cologne, that would be a two hour journey and from there another 3 hours! So overall 5 hours from 7 am, mean arriving in Beckstown at 12. I will definitely miss the 11 am flight to London. Switching the Ryan Air flight is not possible at this time via Internet anymore (by the way, there is no free Internet on this fuing train station) and via telephone would cost more than one Euro per minute from a land line.... and even if I would like to spend that, it is not possible before normal working hours.
So what else, if we book the night flight on Saturday that would cost a fortune. So the only option is the early flight on Sunday. That’s crap, that’s really fuing crap!
Oh and did I wrote already that I have booked the hotel for the nights from Sunday to Tuesday for another 90 Quid?
I can not understand why this happens this way. We are in the middle of Europe. A self called civilised area of the world. And it is not possible to do this short trip without any problems. I have been to countries with a less complex and so called “third world“ countries with a better customer service and travel possibilities.