This is maybe a reply to Mathias Blog:

The new year brought a bunch of new regulations in Germany (or at least in some states of Germany as we have a quite annoying federal system which makes most things even worse):

• Smoking is now prohibited in all public buildings and all bars/restaurants/disco in Bavaria (and some other states while it is still allowed elsewhere). I like that much personally and it is sad that Germany is more or less the last country in europe having installed such a strict anti-smoking law.
• All internet traffic connection data in Germany is now stored for at least 6 months to fight terrorism civil rights. I always admire George Orwell for his vision as he died in 1950 not even knowing an “internet”. Anyway, there is a complaint of unconstitutionality and hopefully it will succeed. But for now, if you happen to use the internet in Germany - watch out.

Other than that the new year started quite good (on top of a church tower…). So, happy new year to everybody (excluding most politicians).

Today, I am leaving for a 3 weeks trip through Scandinavia using the train. This is rather cheap because of the ScanRail Pass which allows unlimited travel on Scandinavian railways.

My way, though subject to change at any time will bring me to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Gällivare, Östersund, Trondheim, Bergen, Olso, Göteborg and back to Malmö. In case you want to meet me anywhere on this route, send me a mail and hope that I will have Internet access somewhere to read it.

More important, I won’t read any mailings lists, bugzilla reminders, planets, blogs and so on in the next weeks so don’t expect to hear from me apart from private mail which I might have access to but that’s uncertain.

Today, I added a very simple feature to anjuta which makes it possible to build your project inside a scratchbox environment. It does not take care about execution and debugging yet but that’s not so important for me at the moment.

The last weeks I mostly hacked on drag-and-drop layout support for glom. It is far from finished at the moment and anyone is free to make suggestions how improve the whole dnd handling.

Today, I heading for the German Cup-Final in Berlin tommorow and I hope Nuremberg will win it’s first title after 39 years (including several years in the second and even one in the third league).

So, I finally hold my new Nokia N800 in my hands. Nokia was so kind to give a discount code to me for the work we did on Maemomm for openismus. Thanks to Nokia and Murray for organizing this discout!

So its simply incredible! l switched it on connected the wifi and write my first N800 blog now.

I should really start to read the manual now but I am just suprised of some things:
- It’s damn small. Of course I knew the size in cm before I bought it but it should feels much smaller with this 800×600 display.
- The display is very sharp though you need good eyes to be able to read webpages in full-size mode.
- Accidently pushed the button to the right and a webcam moved out
- You can use handwriting to edit text and that works amazing

I will continue playing…

So I am entering the time where getting older does not have any new advantages - turning 22 today.

And just as a birthday present, they sent me a letter today about the 585€ tuition fees I have to pay for the next term - thanks much!

In case you ever did (or trusted computers in general) you should watch this video (from YouTube)!

Falls noch jemand das Glück/Pech hat katholisch zu sein, sollte er sich das Kabarett Cherubim unbedingt mal anschauen.

It’s finally over now! I have written my last exam for the summer term yesterday! Damn, 5 exams in 4 weeks is really hard if three of them belong to those which are known to be the most difficult.

But it’s over, it’s over, it’s over!

Mit Erstaunen habe ich heute bei Heise Online gelesen, dass endlich das erste DRM-freie Musikportal in Deutschland eröffnet hat. Nicht nur das, sie haben auch wirklich gute Musik und lassen den ganzen Chartkram erstmal komplett weg. Die Preise sind zwar auch nicht günstiger als bei anderen Portalen, aber wenigstens kann ich die Musik gemütlich auf eine CD brennen, auf meine iPod überspielen oder auf meinem mp3-Server lagern und das alles völlig problemlos unter Linux. Wenn man die Preise mit denen von Amazon vergleicht, spart man aber dennoch ein paar Euro auch wenn man natürlich keine CD mit Verpackung erhält.

Ich hoffe das Portal wird ein Erfolg, deshalb will ich den Link auch nicht vorenthalten und entschuldige mich schon mal für die Werbung: Akuma.de.

So jetzt bin ich endlich komplett in meiner neuen Wohnung angekommen. Wirklich schön bis jetzt und die Einrichtung haben wir auch halbwegs hinbekommen. Zwar noch keinen Tisch, aber wenigstens schon eine Bar!

Das einzige Problem bis jetzt ist der DVB-T-Empfang. Was im vierten Stock 300m weiter noch super funktioniert hat sieht im Erdgeschoss ziemlich mau aus. Aber wir haben immerhin eine Stelle gefunden an der es halbwegs funktioniert.

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