Daily Life
Twice the visitors and a few updates…
It’s the time of the year again: SUMMER! My favorite season. Most of you are planning their holidays or are already there, spent time outside or… NOT.
At least it looks like, since visits to this blog have increased by 100% in the past two months. Let’s just say you all have an iPad (btw. why is Firefox 4 on Mac OS still telling me ‘iPad’ is a typo?
) and read outside
I’m pretty inactive over here… again
But at least I spent the morning adding a few features and fixing a few bugs in wordpress:
- There are finally Social Share buttons
- Thumbnails should now work
- Fixed an issue with my feed
- and some internal things, like SSL for the admin area
I’m trying to force myself taking the time to travel and shoot again, so hopefully there will be a couple of things to posts this summer…
Chris out.
New Visitor Record :)
This is just for my ego… but WOW! 50% more visitors last month.
Awesome
Where’s the FB ‘like’ button? *click*
Keep coming!
A new Office for the Nerd (Dell U2711 Review)
Nerd to the left, creativity to the right
Finally got a new workspace… My old 22in Monitor was just too damn small for everything…
Since I called it review, here it comes: These monitors are great. The size is nice, the resolution of 2540×1440 is awesome and the colors are impressive. Did I mention gorgeous? </Apple Keynote>
BUT there are a few downsides:
- The screen has some kind of a glimmer in white areas, which is a little wired for text
- The screen seems to have a bug with Display-port. It sometimes just hangs and you need to power reset it
- I need a new Mac Mini with thunderbolt to run both at full resolution
Happy (early) Holidays…
As you might have noticed… I broke my promises… I am currently too busy to keep publishing on this blog. Especially on a weekly base. And too be honest, I am currently kinda bugged by all this Social Media stuff…
So, if I don’t get back to this blog this year… Happy Holidays and a happy New Year!
I promise I’ll try to get back to a more regular posting schedule next year.
A Portfolio for my Website
I was looking for a way to add a Portfolio Slideshow to my Website for the last two weekends now, but it looks like my requirements are pretty high:
- Interoperability (e.g. no Flash)
- Easy handling
- Smooth transitions
- Automatic resize to fit the Browser’s windows
- Use Flickr as CDN and for stats
I came across a jQuery based solution called Galleria, which fits my needs pretty much, but it was slow! My Core2Duo MacBook Pro had a hard time sliding trough my 1600px images! And I haven’t got it to work with Flickr so far. I think Galleria is the way to go and I’ll try to get it to work with Flickr and play more smoothly, but in the meantime I embedded a Flickr slideshow in Flash… See My Portfolio
Hope to get it done today, but don’t really count on it
Breaking the Schedule :-(
And I have to break my schedule again
I spent the weekend to dig into the internals of HTML5 and JavaScript, trying to find a good way to publish a Portfolio here on my website that can be viewed on non-flash devices. So blog post delayed til next week.
Sorry for the Silence
Sorry for the Silence, but the past two months have been very busy. I didn’t even have time to take my camera out of it’s camera bag once.
Luckily I’m pretty sick today, so I have time to work at the computer
To keep things a bit more consistent I think I’ll try to schedule my posts on a weekly basis from now on.
Take care and please stay tuned
Fuck the Czech! – Road Trip is Over!
Sorry, but I have to be rude today. I just need to write it down.
Fuck you Prague, fuck you Czech! Fuck you all! I have never seen people being that unhelpful and disinterested.
My girlfriend and I went to Prague for a night and this morning we wanted to leave to Vienna, Austria. But no, we didn’t do that. The parking situation in Prague and the entire Czech Republic is horrible, so we parked in a side street a few hundred meters from our so called “Hotel” where we had to pay the parking meter every two hours. Not just that the Hotel (Old Time Hotel) was horrible (dirty, ants, …), between 01:00AM where we last checked our car and 09:00AM when we came back, one of the windows have been smashed and every single piece of clothing I own has been stolen. Everything. About 2000€ worth of clothing. Not to mention my girlfriends Laptop. And don’t tell me we should have taken it out! We put all visible things in the hotel and stored the rest in the trunk. You also wouldn’t have carried your stuff that far to the Hotel for just one night! I think they came for the radio – a cheapish built-in one that comes from the manufacturer. They have even taken the coverings in the car. WTF?! And the charging cable for the navigation system, that we had a hard time getting out of fucking Prague.
We must have been standing there for like 15minutes. I was yelling and smashing everything. There were several people around us, no one came. We called the police. And then we waited in the rain and waited and waited with all the stuff we had taken to the hotel room (4 additional bags!). No one came. No Police. No one came to help, no one cared. They all pretended they didn’t speak English or German.
Three hours later a policeman finally came, but pretended he doesn’t speak a fucking single word of English, or German, or even Polanski! In the end he sent us home, telling us we should file a charge at home. Great!
Back home I wanted to buy at least some underwear and clean shirts, when the car’s engine also broke. And it was raining cats & dogs…
Holiday canceled. Good night.
UPDATE: Due to many many rude, disrespectful and sometimes very racist comments, I think I have to close comments on this post. I think everyone should be able to share his/her opinion, but there were so many comments I just had to trash because they were just too extreme. It is not my intention to censor any comments, nor is it my intention to offend anyone personal, so I rather just delete those comments. Don’t get me wrong! I shared MY experiences and I am still very pissed off. Anyway… comments closed.
Summer Vacation 2010
It’s hot here in Germany. The sky is blue and the sun is shining… Actually the plan was to go on a road trip on the US Westcoast… California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona… u know. But due to time problems my girlfriend and I are making a road-trip trough Europe:
Starting in Saxony, heading east towards Kalovy Vary, then Prague, then southern to Vienna and finally trough the Alps as far as we get until I’ll be back in Frankfurt on August, 1.
That’s the plan at least
Take care and enjoy the summer. I thin I’ll post from time to time.
iOS 4, my iPhone 3G and me
It’s been almost two weeks since I upgraded from 3.1.3 to 4.0 on my old iPhone 3G and I must say: it’s slow!
iOS 4 feels much slower on my old 3G than 3.1.3. Apple, do you want to force me to upgrade by that? It’s annoying! I am willing to upgrade, but T-Mobile doesn’t want me to! They lost my pre-order… damn you!
Hi, my name is Chris. I am a wannabe photog, traveler & geek that lives in Hesse, Germany. 