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Fitness: check.

Martin Rubli — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:43:54 +0000

After some (some might call it a lot) discussion with the rest of the group it looks like the sissy is not me for a change. Some people are already trying to bail out. I'll post an update as soon as our trip stands. I really hope I won't disappoint you, and if I do this time, I'll make up for it by going on a tour that involves camping some other day. :-)

Fitness: check.

Thomas — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:09:53 +0000

Whaaatt?!!? You, camping!? I see that Taiwan is doing strange things to you :) ... I think you are on track for the real fun stuff :)

Hot news

Loic — Sun, 27 May 2007 00:34:50 +0000

Chinese? OOops, I slightly forgot about that! Here in the US it's memorial day weekend and I finally get some time for myself: I'd better worry about my Chinese too!

Friends don't let friends see Borat

Naouel — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:40:24 +0000

Guess what!!! Borat is nominated for the Oscars (http://www.oscar.com/nominees/).
There's no accounting for taste but I can't help it: My esteem for the Academy just vanished.

Sport is bad for you

Naouel — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:17:40 +0000

I agree with the title ;-)

Touching the sky

Thomas — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:12:32 +0000

You tell not to go faster than 15 Mph if running away from a rattlesnake. If somebody is walking in front of you, you even have to slow down when passing... on the other hand, once you passed him, the trouble is maybe more on his side :-)

"First" days at Logitech

Martin — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:50:54 +0000

Both the keyboard and the touchpad are standard HID devices, so for me it was really plug-and-play, even on Linux. I had a 2.6.16 kernel at the time but it should work on pretty much any version with HID support.

"First" days at Logitech

Nuno — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:10:39 +0000

You say this works on Linux? Which version were you running it on? Did you try out the mouse capabilities? I was unable to get the touch pad to work at all.

Of safety and braindeadness

Martin — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:57:06 +0000

Yeah, I'd rather they didn't. :-)

Of safety and braindeadness

pat — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:11:47 +0000

At least they try... ;-)

Haaaaiii-speeeed Interne ... ZZZZ

Thomas — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:13:04 +0000

Dolphins in Santa Barbara: Very easy, you just look onto the ocean and see them - although I think we must have seen some bigger whales or can dolphins produce that high fountains, too?
Butterflies: True, but who cares? :)
You're right about the problem with hotel booking and so. We got stuck once when all the motels where full and looking for alternatives without internet is really painful...

Haaaaiii-speeeed Interne ... ZZZZ

Martin — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:51:11 +0000

Okay, now that's not true. It is extremely convenient to have Internet in your hotel since you can get all sorts of information about the place you're currently staying in or plan to visit on the next day. How else would you find out on the road if it's dolphin season in Santa Barbara or butterfly season in Pismo beach?

Apart from that, Microsoft MapPoint just rocks as an offline route planner if you don't have a GPS. But I'll blog about that a little more soon.

Ok, hotel for tonight is booked, gotta go. :-)

Haaaaiii-speeeed Interne ... ZZZZ

Thomas — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:32:41 +0000

Well, holidays are not usually the time when one is very keen on sitting at home and browsing the web (or writing blog posts, for that matter). And you are the only person I know who takes a laptop for leisure travel anyway ;) - so I think these kind of hotels should not have wireless at all...
Having said that, it is true that internet coffees for periodically (e.g. once a week rather than once an hour) checking mails are very rare and extremely expensive in the whole of the Southwestern US.

Stupidity, Comcast-style

Thomas — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:52:42 +0000

Hi Martin,
I just got home to Switzerland (one flight later than planned and still waiting for some luggage, but anyway) and was delighted to see that it wasn't my bad aura that caused administrative problems in the US as they seem to persist ;)
Have a good flight home
Thomas

Finale

Martin — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:18:38 +0000

You know, I was almost going to write something about you not having to get up early in the morning. :-) Time zones really suck, let's just get rid of them and move all people who like to work during the night to the same continent.

Finale

pat — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 07:05:51 +0000

Congratulations! I'd like to add how I feel about that. Well I'm looking forward to meeting you here again and not having to get up early in the morning just to see you're not online :-). See you soon...

Done with time to spare

pat — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:26:47 +0000

Nice one. Not too much time and I'll probably link to that post, too... Looking forward to seeing your thesis posted here.

King of trees

Loic — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:26:10 +0000

Right, the US-Open was fun to watch, but I haven't seen a single one of Roger's game! Anyway it's pretty much covered by saying "yellow ball, two players, Roger wins in the end". You can also add: "Except if Rapha makes it to the final":

http://www.atptennis.com/3/en/players/headtohead/?player1=Federer%2C+Roger&player2=nadal%2C+rafael

But Rapha didn't make it :-)

Moving to Australia

Martin — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:56:46 +0000

Right between Hyde Park and Royal Botanical Gardens; that's also a nice place to live! I'll definitely consider it when I move next time.

I shall reveal the whole story behind the "mysterious" post in a few weeks. But frankly there's not much to it if you've read my previous post on the same topic. Alternatively you can ask me tomorrow at work and get a headstart over all the others who didn't get it either. :-)

Moving to Australia

Loic — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:00:42 +0000

Hey! I don't get it, but I know for sure it's a lie as you actually live there:

http://local.google.com/local?f=q&hl=en&q=martin+place+station,+sydney,+australia&ie=UTF8&z=17&om=1&iwloc=A

obviously.

Martin's personal blog Comments

Fitness: check.

Fitness: check.

Hot news

Friends don't let friends see Borat

Sport is bad for you

Touching the sky

"First" days at Logitech

"First" days at Logitech

Of safety and braindeadness

Of safety and braindeadness

Haaaaiii-speeeed Interne ... *ZZZZ*

Haaaaiii-speeeed Interne ... *ZZZZ*

Haaaaiii-speeeed Interne ... *ZZZZ*

Stupidity, Comcast-style

Finale

Finale

Done with time to spare

King of trees

Moving to Australia

Moving to Australia

Haaaaiii-speeeed Interne ... ZZZZ

Haaaaiii-speeeed Interne ... ZZZZ

Haaaaiii-speeeed Interne ... ZZZZ