Whew, wheres 2008 gone???

So I havent blogged for a while-and yes,twitter is one reason for that 😉 Many things have happened: I now live in a cute flat in ehrenfeld in cologne, with direct view to the Dom – unfortunately I am not yet ready, and I have to live with the boxes 😉 it’s too much work…

typepad account

got a reminder today from typepad regarding my blog account: the credtit card information wasn’t valid anymore. DOI had to remember the „good“ times when oli got me into blogging which was back in 2003-yes we are getting old 😉 and I had to remember some strange kind of deal oli and I made to…

emundoo: our p2p video-streaming system

For over a year our team has developed emundoo, and we are now in "geek mode" which means, we are running a closed alpha to find all the bugs and cracks we need to fix to offer emundoo to the public asap. What is emundoo                             …

Why I like TV under public law

Last saturday night I somehow could not sleep so I watched TV: boxing on ARD, which is the first program in germany. Castillejo (Spain) vs. Sylvester (Vorpommern, Germany). Castillejo (called „The Fox“) 40 y old with lots of KO on his winners-list vs the young german guy who knocked Castillejo K.O. in the 12th round…

Couch potatoe

This evening my second beloved football club (just behind Arminia Bielefeld, 1. FC Cologne) played against Borussia Mönchengladbach, which is a traditional derby. I haven’t got a TV since 2 years anymore, but my notebook with a DVB-T card, which is fine for all the channels I’m normally watching, Unfortunately the game tonight was on…

OSX Umlaut svn problem

We found a workaround for the OSX svn problem: You might want to add this small pre-commit script to your svn which checks for umlauts before commit and gives the user a warning: #!/bin/sh REPOS=“$1″ TXN=“$2″ SVNLOOK=/usr/bin/svnlook ## NOTE: This is a quick hack! WILL let many „dangerous“ characters pass! if $SVNLOOK changed -t „$TXN“…

MySQL Enterprise support – not that cool

For quite a large project we booked MySQL Enterprise Support. As always when working with 3rd party companies we needed to set up an NDA with them. Unfortunately MySQL germany is not able today to accept our standard NDA – they have to use the american version which allows MySQL to use everything their consultants…

Crazy days in a startup

motionet is getting a year now, and it’s really great to see al these cool apps evolving we have developed and all the great projects we’ve done with our team. Unfortunately there’s always too few time to write about all the details, but yesterday was a really crazy day. It’s not always like that, but…

Among the runners again

Since being in hospital in Sep 2007 it’s been my first short run again today – just half an hour down the rhine but boy, it felt that great! Especially in my new shoes… 😉

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