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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I just played a mms-stream using mplayer in the console. After it was done I read this in the console: Everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing proprietary and patented technology. (Looks like this is my shortest blog entry ever … ;-))

As my current term at university is crammed with projects, presentations and term papers, it is quite hard to remember every deadline. I was constantly worrying about them and pretty badly needed a way to manage all my tasks. As I mentioned Getthing Things Done on this blog some time...

I’m currently attending a course called “Animation programming with Processing”. It’s a blended-learning course lectured at my university. I heard about processing before but never looked at it closely. Processing is a simple programming language build on top of Java and comes with its own, simple IDE. It includes some...

We’ve just updated nightwish.com’s design to match with the new album “Dark Passion Play”. We also introduced to new languages: swedish and portuguese. Check it out! ;-)

Note the fork! Recognizing someone?

I’ve spent a fuckin’ great weekend in Hamburg … again! I finally met Jarmo and Sushi Patrol Nightwish did an amazing concert in the “Delphi Showpalast”. The venue was quite small but very nice. There were just about 300 people but they rocked they house. It was the first time...

I’m currently in Gemünden visiting the Up From The Ground Festival to shoot some photos. The weather is – unlike last year – great. Unfortunately the light on stage isn’t that good and it’s hard to achieve good results. In addition I’ve some auto-focus trouble with my Sigma lens and...

Since last week I’m using ClockingIT to track the time I spent on client-projects. Some of the features are (taken from clockingit.com ): time tracking & reports milestones & due dates timeline & activity log notifications, rss & iCal integrated wiki english, brazilian, french, german, spanish & norwegian languages The...

I’m now working for the mac-fans at bytebetrieb.com. Thanks to Moritz and Stefan — who contacted me using Xing — for giving me the chance to do some useful stuff! ;-) I’m primarily working with their in-house CMS called Fast Publishing System (FPS). Check out their website and blog!

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Yes, I know. I didn’t blog for some time now. Sorry! I stumbled across Getting Things Done today. It’s a self-management method invented by David Allen. As I’m currently having my term’s exams (again ;-)), I didn’t have the time to take a closer look. Although what I read about...

I’d love to have some right now :-)

We had your monthly Linux Usergroup Fulda meeting yesterday. As always, it was nice. ;-) Simon brought some presents for us: Homebrew OpenCola! It’s a recipe for mixing the popular soft drink. The best thing is: It’s under the GPL! Get the recipie here ...

I’ve been visiting Hamburg for two days (Sunday and Monday) lately. It was great. It’s been a while since I last visited the city. (I think it must be about four years or something) Surprisingly not much changed, at least the at the places I visited again. I’ve also had...

I just finished reading this article by Paul Graham. It’s quite interesting so take a look at it!

I cleaned my keyboard today … disassembled it completely. Every single key has been brushed and cleaned. It’s like new again! I should do that more regularly as it was quite dirty. How long ago did YOU clean your keyboard? ;-)

While traveling by train last friday I noticed this (german) advertisment at the station in front of a bakery. Click here for a bigger picture. Later, in the train, I was sitting next to a guy with a very old and very huge notebook. I didn’t know people are still...

Today I modified Mephisto’s default theme. It’s a little bit more individual and synatic|net related now. Hopefully you like it ;-) Nevertheless I could still need someone with professional webdesign-skills who knows XHTML, CSS like his/her own pocket. Maybe one of my few (future) readers out there matches these criterias?...

I’ve tried it before, but never continued for more than 2 weeks: running a blog. I just wrote my last exam for this term about an hour ago so I’ve got some time to spend. I’m planning to write about my current side-projects (mainly webapps/websites), linux, programming, software development and...