Mplayer patented technology joke
February 15th, 2008 — Posted by benedikt — Filed in Other
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 … ;-))
Getting Things Done with Tracks
January 7th, 2008 — Posted by benedikt — Filed in Other, Ruby on Rails
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 ago but hadn’t tried it yet, I decided to give it a chance. I didn’t buy the book by David Allen, but searched for a simple tool to implement GTD in my everyday life. (Rails applications preferred, of course) What I found was Tracks – Doing Things Properly an open source rails app providing everything I needed. Its slick interface makes it easy to manage actions, projects and contexts. Additionally actions can be exported in RSS or iCal format, although I customized the RSS a little to reverse the order and display the due-date.
After using it for about one month now, I really recommend it! No more worrying about forgetting deadlines or entire tasks!
If you want to try Tracks without having to set it up on your own, just contact me and I’ll add an account for you.
Processing is fun
November 26th, 2007 — Posted by benedikt — Filed in Other, Processing
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 basic functionality and can be extended with a variety of libraries (Audio, Video, 3D, Network, ...).
It’s amazing how easy it is to write stunning animations with very little lines of code. Combined with a simple webcam and a projector you’ll get cool interactive installations:
Presence
I, Ball
Check out the exhibition at processing.org too!
Maybe I’ll upload some of my own sketches during the next weeks.
Nightwish.com Design Update
October 14th, 2007 — Posted by benedikt — Filed in Other
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! ;-)
Knife, fork and spoon
October 8th, 2007 — Posted by benedikt — Filed in Linux, Other
Note the fork! Recognizing someone?
