Elizabeth Swann: There will come a time when you have a chance to do the right thing.
Jack Sparrow: I love those moments. I like to wave at them as they pass by.
— Pirates of the Caribbean

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Archive for April, 2008

Virtual Reality

15 responses so far – published on Apr, 30 2008 at 13:51 under Computer, Fanfiction, Site.

The last week was really busy. There were a lot of things to do at work. The rebuilding of the LarKC project website was difficult. Hopefully the consortium don’t want to have something else. But I have found a great thing while searching a Flickr-thingy-like image map. Frank Manno gave me a solution that is only based on CSS and XHTML and additionally it looks really great. Nevertheless the team photo is really poor. Some people will only have a 2X2px field to select…

My sis’ Marina had found a great new virtual reality/digital self thing. It’s called mEgo and allows you to create an avatar of you. You can select your appearance and can give the visitor information about your habits, likes and dislikes. There is also the possibility to include your blog and image feeds from Flickr, Photobucket and Twitter. Visitors can additionally leave messages to you. I think it’s a great thing.

Nevertheless, I prefer to be sceptic about such sites that collect user and usage information e.g. studiVZ. So I usually just give information that cannot harm if given to another party. In the mEgo policy is stated that they share this collected data with third parties that can place e.g. advertisements on mEgo.com, but that data does not include your personal information like email, birthday or name.


To finish todays post I just want to point out that a poem that I have written some years ago can now be found in the portfolio section. It’s about the awakening of the Elves and it also tells in a short manner the fate of the two trees and the Noldor. ;)

Giraffe

No responses yet – published on Apr, 24 2008 at 09:23 under Computer, Hobby.

After some weeks I think it’s time again to share some thoughts with the world outside. ;)

The first thing I have to say is the fact that I finally received my MacBook (13”) for my work and I am so happy about. My own notebook currently don’t want to work any longer. The power connector is somehow damaged. I think some contact has been broken and for the reason to repair it I have to open the notebook and to braze it. That’s a work I need time for and I don’t have the time (nor the pleasure) to do this right now. It was nevertheless very funny to see the faces of the people when I put out my MacBook that was wrapped into this:

Longneck MacBook Pouche

Also my mobile phone got a new pouche in the same “giraffe” look. It’s absolutely great and I really love it. To fit my desktop wallpaper is currently also a giraffe.

Giraffe wallpaperA more joyful topic to talk about is the new layout of my Lord of the Rings and Tolkien fansite, Dol-Guldur[dot]com. Finally I have set up the whole site with Wordpress CMS in background. It was much work to add the whole texts into the system but it’s now so much easier to update and maintain the site. I hope that the people will like the new design. I was not sure if this looks good enough (of course better than the old layouts but the last two designs I really liked and it is sometimes hard to stay at such a level).