Semantic Dreamer

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Yesterday I recieved a notification that my “Personal Annual Report for 2008″ for my Dopplr account is available and awaiting my download – but until now I didn’t found time to actually have a look at it…

… only in order to learn:

• You [me] took 8 trips in 2008, which added
  up to 43,602 km or 12% of the distance to the moon.
• In 2008, you [me] spent 339 Day at Home [and] 27 travelling.

… resulting in:

Your personal velocity for 2008 was 4.97
km/h, which is about the same as a duck.

What’s your velocity?

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Made me smile :-):

“Most tech opinion leaders use Mac (a statistic I just extracted from my behind). You should support us first.“

(Via Just Browsing, Browser of the Week: Google Chrome.)

Sure: just replace [placeholder] by:

“- and the author of this blog – “

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Would LOVE to see this some day… Meanwhile – just laughing out loud! :-)

(Via swissmiss: The day there was no news.)

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If the topic caught your attention you probably don’t want to miss the following video in which Ethan Zuckerman recounts some of the “milestones” in the history of online communities – and therefore large parts of the history of the internet in general – in just about seven minutes.

Very entertaining!

(Via Optaros.com – Online Communities in Less than 10 Minutes)

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Big smile :-))

“Remember, every time you touch the mouse, God kills a kitten. Use the keyboard if you have a heart.“

(Via ranchero.com: Saving Seconds.)

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I really like and enjoy improving my English language skills One-Word-a-Day with this nice free (free as in free beer) service: OWAD.de

About the service:

“Start your day learning English with Paul Smith’s One-Word-A-Day

OWAD is the FREE e-mail service which systematically improves your professional English. Every weekday you receive an important word or idiom selected from the international press.

An amusing mini-quiz allows you to immediately test yourself, you can check the German translation and listen to the pronunciation. ” (Source: OWAD.de)

You can get your personal OWAD subscription here.

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Project Sun SPOT – an initiative of Sun Microsystems Laboratories to make sure that the next generation of gadgets is based on Sun technology.
The Vision: Programming the Real-world
Inspiring Java developers to create a whole new breed of devices and technologies – and accelerating the growth of the “Internet of Things” (Project Sun SPOT)
What is a Sun SPOT device?

“The Sun SPOT Device is a small, wireless, battery powered experimental platform. It is programmed almost entirely in Java to allow regular programmers to create projects that used to require specialized embedded system development skills. The hardware platform includes a range of built-in sensors as well as the ability to easily interface to external devices.” (Project Sun SPOT)
What I like about it?
Well, …

• first of all the vision itself: “accelerating the growth of the “Internet of Things”.
• the focus on Java: allowing “developers to write a program in Java, load it on a device, run it, and debug it with standard Java IDEs”. Which is exactly why I personaly think the Google’s Android will be a huge stakeholder in the mobile industry to come.
• the open philosophie allowing to leverage the technology in which ever context you like, reaching from education to hoobyists.

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Today I read the following status message on the Yahoo! Messenger(!!!) of a business partner … and laughed out loud :-):

“If MS buys Yahoo I’ll say bye to you, Yahoo!”

Of course I immediately assured myself the permission to publish this statement – and to probably use as my IM status as well ;-)…

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… yes, thanks guys! Yet another miracle…

“How did ‘Image not found’ look like back in the days of ancient Egypt?“

…has been solved by the power of “spreading important knowledge through blogging”. :-)

Image not found

(Via Planet RubyOnRails: : Image not found — via rytich — szymon.)

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… at least it displays the bara-vara.de CSS design quite smootly.
I used the

…ups, but it really does no Flash!!! (expected to see a photo from my gallery in the almost white main content area)

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