Right now, I’m sitting in Berlin, enjoying the sun & trying to congest the impressions I had so far on this giant trade fair I happened to visit – the IFA.

Focus is on consumer electronics, mainly all kinds of more or less unique new tv sets. People are staring into these goggleboxes & get distracted of their more or less miserable lifes, I thought. The average guy comes home after work & spends quite an amount of time with this complete waste of time.

After this short rush of arrogance, I started to approach it a bit more grown up. I remembered my girlfriend’s comment on my habit of “jumping into that X-Terminal” from time to time when I dive into a serious hacking session…

During the last weeks I met a lot of interesting people. Having talked about the widest plurality of subjects, I realized that there was one common connector, a kind of leitmotif that occurs in almost all conversations I enjoyed. It’s the general situation of our working conditions, which leads to Daniel Pink’s book “Drive”.

This one book is outstanding, but I want to give an overview of all the books I read during the last months. Since I’m a slow reader, you don’t have to be scared: this list is quite short ;–). Have a look at this small pile:

Fiddling around with toto & the blog_helper extension, I realized two things:

• Having total control over your blog is awesome! In theory, you’re able to customize everything & connect all kinds of necessary and unnecessary services…

Ladies and Gentlemen, 5v3n.com proudly presents its new blog!

As mentioned earlier, I had this little project running where I had a look at the features of the ruby based blogging framework toto.

I set myself a little time budget, and when I ran out of time and out of budget today, I followed 37signal’s advice: I shipped it…

I’m quite amazed by this little piece of trigonometric wizardy - it’s basically some 2d markers printed on a sheet of paper that are used to render some 3d objects into your video according to the angle of your phone in realtime. Crazy polka tune not included ;-):

Using tumblr for some months, I realize that I tend to be distracted by my own smaller posts. Located somewhere between micro-blog and blog, I don’t have the necessary willpower to use tumblr & keep this a focused blog.

Ladies & Gentlemen, are you going to work today?

Just in case the OTA-Update does not work, here’s how I updated my n900 to PR1.2 using the Maemo Flasher tool on my Mac OS.

I expected it to totally rip everything off the phone, but I didn’t even need to backup the media files since they were untouched.

rentzsch:

Fifteen years from now, will you be using the same language(s) as you’re using today?

If not, why not?

Sometimes I don’t really understand the world I’m living in. I’m not the classical nerd with little social contact. Which made it even more obvious to me how little people understand about the essence of what I’m doing when I’m “nerding around”.

I’m in my thirties, and for the last 20 years, it was almost a stigmata to be interested in math… computer science… or programming. Then later, I became overcautious with people in my private life knowing what my profession is - and vice versa. Interesting guy can’t be a software developer, good developer can’t be an interesting persona.

This loosened the last couple of years.