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pacman frog :-)

… postgres 8.3 with insufficient fsm_pages over a long time. NEVER ignore the fsm page notices in the log!

DB reduced by ~100GB using SELECT INTO (live mode, minimal downtime) as VACUUM FULL is not a good choice

weaving some code with git …

finally I found an intermediate solution here for importing AVCHD videos from my Samsung HMX-H105 to iMovie/FinalCut Express.

Importing the clip with correct aspect-ratio does work with iMovie 9 (optimize video: full) but interlacing settings are still wrong. So using MPEG Streamclip to encode to Apple Intermedia Codec (100%, AND NOT deinterlace) and importing the mov in iMovie takes some time but works very well.

The files get about 5-10 times larger but can be edited on the fly in iMovie/FCE directly without waiting for AVCHD decode process.

unexpected martian attack in the living room :-)

ah … a link to the past … but why do I wear that stupid hat ? ;-)

some remains of my good old dream to become a pilot :-)

high voltage cascade – first step to my personal ion-cannon ;-)

don´t do this at home!

Omron 12SR Pocket Calculator … ca. 1976. Vacuum Flourescent Display. RPN.
Takes 3 seconds to calc 65!fac

Had to resist the urge to disassemble it :-)
Available on ebay later …

plastic getting a bit intransparent after ~20 years :-)

things you don´t want to see on your ipad delivery tracking:

damn … what kind of exception ? … not even a stacktrace attached ;-)

interesting vehicles…. really fun to drive. Something between car and jet-ski :-)

Time lapse archive of massive turtle movement now available.

the daily gadget: the turtlecam. Using an old ipcam from the basement, installation only took minutes. Implementing the upload using ftp to get to the local server and rsync it to the webserver took a little longer. Images are collected for later timelapse video creation.

Next level is perhaps a megapixel cam with eye-fi card.

public relaunch of the bilddatenbank24.de today with full new technology stack.

Now using Rails + SOLR instead of good old PHP osCommerce shop + J2EE Backend. The old complex system was simply unmaintainable for a too long now.

remarks: still beta and IE mostly unsupported ;-) … still many new features and fotos on the way.

I think they like the new “Bright Sun UV Desert” … or they are planning an escape :-)

btw, the Osram PTI/CDM 70 ballast works great for the lamp. No need to pay twice the amount for perhaps less quality.

is the resolution of one of the two fulldome projectors in Planetarium Hamburg. Just went to a special event about planetarium technics. Impressive. Another thing I learned is the lecturer can use a xbox controller to travel the [known ;-)] universe which is rendered on the fly.

Navigation seemed a little hard to me and TomTom Galaxy Edition came to the mind at once :-) .. even the cheaper M-A-M edition (Milky-Way, Andromeda, Magellan) … ok, I´ll drop the thought here.

yes! some crafting again where you can see results immediately. Not the virtual programming rubbish ;-)

building a new cover for my 500l turtle tank