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Within twitter a new craze is just growing (for the past day or so): Writing your favorite song in 140 characters in code

Some examples:

• SELECT * from dbo.streets WHERE name = ”
• this.WakeUp(); you.GoGo();
• wayToLeaveYourLover[50];for (i=0;i<50;i++) { alert(wayToLeaveYourLover[i]); }
• 10 PRINT “You gotta be starting some thing” 20 GOTO 10
• src=”/universe/saviour.swf?a=ah”
• foreach(note n in song) { n.play(); }

Fore more examples check here. Details about the trend can be found here.

Really fun!

Ahoj,

– Till.

Check this out: Paris on your iPhone, superrealistic!!

The company that built it is called Mobile 3D City (good name they selected) and claims it’s on the way through acknowledge process for the iTunes app store. Looking forward to play with it, although I guess one needs a 3 GS iPhone to use it…
Enjoy your day,
– Till.

Really interesting, graphic and dynamic overview of what we’re building up there:

ISS Timeline

– Till.

Nice way of showing:

Enjoy your day,
– Till.

77%How Addicted to Apple Are You?

That’s because I’m a junior Apple User: Only using Mac since 4 years….

– Till.

…for once it’s coming from Microsoft:

When all this works even I would by this MS product.

– Till.

Somehow my tweet-rate droppped dramatically. Same with my blog-rate. What’s the reason?

Many studies showed, that this is a typical behavior of young tweeters: Only 40% of them tweet on after the first month. They just get bored by the type of information that are published through this media. Do I fall in this pattern too?

Honestly, I don’t think so. It’s true that I almost quit twittering, but the reason is another one: If I look at what happened in my life when I started and stopped twittering, there is one factor that clearly pops up: the iPhone.

I started twittering when I got it, I quit when it broke. Same applies to my facebook usage. Am I happier with or w/o twittering? I honestly don’t have the feeling myself that twitter & facebook were stealing me valuable time. I used time that was unused before to read & post.

So the real question is: Will I get an iPhone again? I don’t think in the near future. But I think that a proper twitter/facebook client will definitly be on the must-have list for my next smartphone. Until then I use Daniel’s old E90…

Have a good night & a good working week,

– Till.

So, my iPhone is still dead. I still didn’t manage to get in touch with the insurance to get it fixed…

Anyway, there is another recent finding: W/o an iPhone at hand I have far more free time to spend. I used to spend a couple of hours playing with my phone every day – I think. Now this time is all free. You might notice a drop in posting frequency on twitter, facebook, even on my blog: Reading less RSS feeds I have less stories to re-submit, so less content for the blog.

Although I spent quite some time playing with my iPhone, this one is far worse.

Who knows who my online-times will be with a Android phone or a Palm Pre? Is online time a measure of quality for a smartphone? Currently I use the old Nokia E90 of a colleague: It has a lot of functionality, but surfing is no, twitter is no, facebook is no no. The whole thing is just built for business…

So long so good, have a good night,

– Till.

After 3 months in the new flat, today came the last passwords I needed from Telekom in order to set up the VDSL access.

And that’s the result:
According to Telekom we should be able to watch IPTV with this. Let’s see…

BTW: I took the test at SpeedTest.net, it was the best I found.

Have a good week end,
– Till.

I just found a nice tool that shows us where we all coem from: ClustrMaps.
This is my visitors-map:

Did you find your spot?

It looks like a nice feature, but it’s a shame that the map is not nicer and bigger. Do you know a nicer one?

Ahoj,
– Till.