The web page for the project I’m working on went live yesterday. It is still been tweaked and updated; there should be some issues with IE 6.0 but it sure works fine with FireFox 2.
So in case you are interested in reading about the project I’m working on at ETHZ then do go over to “80days – around an inspiring virtual learning world in eighty days”
Yeah, I know we are a few days into the month but I still find it alright to say Welcome to August 2008.
So what is the idea with this? I will each month set some small rules/goals for myself; nothing major such as “I need to blog 30 times this month”. As we all know, I will just fail then.
I will then at the start of the next month do a quick review of how the previous month went. But why should I write about it? Should you care? Well, the main reason to write about it is to document it and also to put some pressure on myself. Who knows maybe someone will find it inspiring and do the same. So maybe you care or maybe you don’t but in any case you might borrow some ideas.
The rules/goals are not “Live and Die By the Rule”; they may be broken and there will be exceptions but they should be followed as much as possible.
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This is not first time I get discount from Amazon, I got one or two vouchers worth 5 EURO or so before, but this time it total rocked, a total discount on 25% on ALL books I order. This is just because I live in Switzerland and am ordering from Amazon in Germany. Thanks a lot.
I had a few books marked as “wishes” so I went ahead and fine tuned that a bit but damn, it was hard not to go total crazy.
So let’s see what I ended up with…
Review does not contain any ‘real’ spoilers but links might do.
I remember clearly the day I came across the teaser for movie Hancock staring Will Smith. First of all, I consider Will Smith a great entertainer (singer, comedian and actor) and seeing him in the role of Hancock was just perfect.
I guess I saw the trailer around 5 times the first day and was laughing like a lunatic each time (”… Greenpeace does…”) so this was a movie that went right in on the top of movies to see. Continue Reading »
Things sure went down the hill with the blog the last few month, sorry about that.
What makes it worse is that I at the very start of the year wrote about my goals for this year (No Real New Year Resolution but goals for 2008) which included a few blogging goals, then later in February I wrote about starting up again with the blog (February 16th: Starting up again) and since that post I only wrote 6 new posts.
No excuses and nothing to blame it on (except myself) so time to move on and get started again with my hobby.
Also no promises about what I will be blogging about or how often it will happen but the plan is surely to get it kick started again.
So let’s see when the next post will arrive and if I can continue to write more regular.
This is not a review nor does it contain any spoilers. Actually, I will not even call it a review as I do not go into details of the books or the story.
I wrote a while back about my experience with reading and then watching “The Golden Compass” (See my post about this) as mentioned there I was going to order the books and read them before the movies are out (Just don’t have time to wait). It turned out to be a bit of a challenge at the start…
Yesterday I wrote about me loosing my job and the search for a new job, I was getting close to panic but at the end I ended up with a very interesting job. So today the story continues, this time about the new job and what changes this will bring upon us here. (Us = myself, the kids and my ex-wife).
At the very end of last year I wrote about goals for this year and regarding work I mentioned following:
These two subjects became serious issues recently for me which will result in some big changes for me (After been through a few changes recently). On the 1st of April (No April jokes, please) I will be starting a new job at a Technical University here in Switzerland. This will be the biggest job change for me during my 10 years here in Switzerland. This change is not only related to work but will go beyond it and result in changes for us all here (the kids, my ex-wife and myself).
Let me tell the story… This will be done in two parts, with the first one today and second tomorrow.
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The world sure gets more and more interesting as time passes by; or should we say that people get more and more sad!!
Sure this is my own opinion but when people start to do competitions in poop scoping then I feel something is wrong. When it even gets to the point where we have professional pooper scoopers then I don’t really know what to think any more.
Just check this video clip:
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Review does not contain any ‘real’ spoilers but links might do.
It is now a week ago I saw Cloverfield for the first time and I might see it again in another week. There have been written a lot about this movie and how it was filmed and it is one of those movies that either you love it or you hate it.
To illustrate this I will give a summary of the cinema experience:
I went with 3 friends and this was the verdict:
Now let’s split it up in sexes:
This does not mean it is only a ‘guys’ movie; well at least I don’t consider it so.
I have to admit it is a special movie, just based on how it is all filmed, if you seen the trailers you will know what I mean, the whole movie is done so it looks like it is filmed by one of the actors using a small hand cam. So a lot of shaking, focus issues, changes of view very suddenly. At NO time the camera view changes to ‘another’ camera, it is always the person from the movie holding it.
Some people complained about this, that it causes nausea and headache but just like some games does this (Good old Doom did this); the effect is just different from person to person. It did annoy me a bit at the very start but I soon got over it.
I also heard people complain about the character development in the movie but this is a ‘private home movie’ so people know each other, so fine in this format I would say.
What I really liked about it was the fear these people had and you did feel it from time to time yourself (for those who seen it: tunnel), this together with the excellent sound just made it all more ‘real’. We did go to the best place in town to watch it and I suggest that people go to a place where the sound system is GOOD as it adds a lot to the movie.
There is a lot of action and adrenalin in the movie, sure the first 20 minutes can feel long but after that the tempo goes up a lot. You will also find lot’s of good humor in it, without it been lame at all. OK, I admit it, I was probably smiling and laughing a good few times when it was not really supposed to be funny; that’s just the type of guy I am.
Only negative thing I can say about it is: Too short and that I need a new sound system for it when it is released on DVD/Blu-ray.
There are of course a lot of rumors about a possible sequel and I could very much imagine that there will be one. Google will give some good links to rumors and also to hints that are in the current movie. This one would of course be filmed in another way (unless other people filmed the whole happening on their camera). I could imagine a more ‘normal’ movie which might also give some answers to all the open questions (Why? What? Did they….)
I know, I will be there when the second one starts (Keep an eye on IMDb for it)
Last of all: Um… I had a good day. :-)
