synatic|blog by Benedikt Deicke

... and messed it up.

Last week I’ve been giving a talk (in german) about the project I did during my internship at the Human Computer Interaction Research Center at the university of applied sciences Fulda. This was the first talk I gave (not counting those I had to do in school and for university) and of course it ended up a little awkward. I didn’t intend to do a live demo at the end but somehow I changed my mind during the presentation. Of course nothing worked like expected … ;-) Lessons learned for next time. If you’d like to see the disaster yourself there is a video available.

I got my thesis’ topic last week and will start to write it within the next few days. I decided to write it using TeX as all my attempts to write large documents in OpenOffice.org caused very bad headaches. The TeX approach fits my needs much better and I can use GIT much more effectively to manage the changes to the documents. With TeX I could even apply patches to the document … how cool is that? :-) Just imagine sending the document to someone else for proofreading and getting back a patch that can be instantly applied without having to search every passage that had misspelled words in it. Maybe I’ll post some links that helped me getting into all the TeX stuff in the near future.

During the last week I built a new design for both the blog and the website. The website isn’t finished yet but today I decided to update the blog’s design. I hope you like it as much as I do.

Additionally I updated the underlaying Mephisto Blog and added Sven Fuchs’ Paged Article Lists Plugin.

I’ve had a great weekend again, seeing Nightwish doing two amazing shows. First one on saturday in Leipzig, the second one in Frankfurt on monday. I took several pictures and uploaded a selection of them to the Nightwish.com Gallery:

• Photos of the Leipzig show on saturday
• Photos of the Frankfurt show on monday

To give you an idea, here are some of the best ones:

I’m a total moron when it comes to web- and screendesign. I totally lost the ability to build visually appealing websites (or maybe my demands just grow) over the last few years. Unfortunately a good looking design is a must for every website or -application. I’ve some ideas in mind that I’d like to realize. To do so I definitely need help! As a result I’m looking for a

Web-/Screendesigner

for cooperation on these (and maybe even more) projects. Knowledge of (x)html, css, and javascript is a plus but not necessarily required. So, if you’re experienced in designing websites please contact me by mail using benedikt at synatic dot net or comment below.

I’m looking forward to your message! :-)

Thanks!