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2008/07/21 18:24 are lacking.
I know, and some of you have been impatiently messaging me....
So I sat down yesterday and typed
a looong entry about the meeting in Switzerland and as I was 90% ready
and wanted to add pictures, the browser decided to crash.
So you will have to wait for a few more days. I`m still in Oslo, and as the legendary suscon afterparty is going to start in half an hour I gotta
get going.
Just so much:
Attended the Swiss IAM meeting as well as the Oslo suscon - two
suspensions on susbsequent weekends this month. Ouch.
- I now know that even I can enjoy hooks in my back. They
just need to be placed right - and two are enough :)
- static rigging is as awesome as it looks. The experience
was incredible. I`m still high from it. Oh, and those Oliver-designed
hooks a really worth their money.
Oslo is amazing. I`m really really really happy to be here and will
definitely return if they let me....
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2008/05/20 01:27 I just discovered that since I came in here, FIVE THOUSAND people had a
look at this my excuse of an IAM page. I`d never expected that, and I
don't really know what to think of it. But I promise to not neglect it so much as in the past - there WILL be more frequent updates!
But nonetheless, I`m curious as to who takes an interest in what I have
to say on here, so I installed me one of these tracking thingies. So
now I know who you are :). Don't worry, this will only be temporary;
I`m probably going to get rid of it in a week or two...
Anyway, there's some imminent changes bound to happen in the near
future: I`m going to start at a new job next month and move to
Switzerland in the process.
This is going to be a nice career move for
me, and I`m very much looking forward to that. Even here, this
community comes in handy: I've received valuable tips from various
people on here, especially Sandy and Andy
have been really helpful with advice.
Sorry about all the pictures - these are still AWOL. They were hosted
on a subdomain that no longer exists after some hiatus at provider
level, so I'll have to get different webspace and then re-upload and re-link them all. There's no
time for that at the moment, so please bear with me for just a little
longer - sorry!
Other than that, I`m very much looking forward to see all those nice
BME folk again at the Swiss IAM
meeting in July - can't wait for that!
And I`m finally going to attend the Oslo Susconthis year - something I was dreaming of doing even before I got in here. Hopefully this will work out - as asking for time off two weeks into a new job might be a little premature, but we'll see... |
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| 2008/03/16 15:18 all pictures on my page unfortunately are gone for the moment.
They were hosted on some personal webspace and somehow disappeared as a result of a server migration.
I hope to get everything back online in the course of next week...
I was amazed a few of you sent me messages and asked about that - so apparently some of you take some interest in what I put up here. Thanks guys, that makes me feel good! |
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2008/02/25 21:07 Does anybody remember what I said about how I discovered this site in
late 2005?
Well, the German Government in its infinite wisdom ordered the German
branches of Google&Co. to filter the BMEzine.com URL and do not
display search results from that URL because the [insert favorite
expletive] at the "Federal
Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons" (haha, they can't
even afford proper translation - this should read "Agency", not
"department") ruled that viewing BMEzine.com would be "harmful to
the development of German minors" and censored the site by placing it
on an index, right next to racial hatespeech sites and the like.
And now, I personally am affected by that shit!
But, see for yourself - this is what I found out when searching for "JungleCon"
- Google at least doesn't leave you in the dark and tells you
that they were forced to remove a few hits and direct you to "compare
across domains":
Google
outside Germany: 8 hits, BME on top - yep, even Google
China shows BME; whereas Google
Germany: 5 hits, BME filtered out.
- Yahoo "behaves well", too - no
BME results displayed on the German site. They don´t even
give out a censorship warning! US
site displays everything as it should...
- Microsoft obviously doesn't give a shit about the German Government -
MSN
Germany links to BME exactly like MSN USA.
- AOL search returned ZERO results at all on either the US
or German
site (although they claim to be "powered by google"). Crappy
technology or overzealous filtering?
- Altavista censors BME: 10
hits on the German site, 13
on the US site
- Metaspinner, another German search engine,
doesn´t seem to care about the filter rule, too - I
get 12 hits, including BME.
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