LFMT: August 2003 Archives

Dumb joke..

By Dominik Schwind on August 31, 2003 10:12 PM

At hospital looking through the glass at the newly arrived babies:
Father:
Kitchy kitchy koo. Look, she smiled. Isn't she adorable?

Friend:
But your kid didn't smile.

Father:
I was talking about the nurse.

Christliche Suchmaschine

By Dominik Schwind on August 31, 2003 7:44 PM

Es gibt da so eine neue christliche Suchmaschine. Sehr interessant finde ich da die Top 50 der Suchbegriffe..

Eve

By Dominik Schwind on August 29, 2003 5:26 PM

Beim H-Blog habe ich gerade Eve von Yello Strom kennengelernt..

Chinese Menu

By Dominik Schwind on August 29, 2003 4:51 PM

Once again courtesy of evilmm.

Indifference..

By Dominik Schwind on August 29, 2003 2:16 PM

:-|

I'm with you..

By Dominik Schwind on August 29, 2003 12:51 PM

by Avril Lavigne

I'm Standing on a bridge
I'm waitin in the dark
I thought that you'd be here by now
Theres nothing but the rain
No footsteps on the ground
I'm listening but theres no sound

Isn't anyone tryin to find me?
Won't someone please take me home
It's a damn cold night
Trying to figure out this life
Wont you take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I dont know who you are
But I'm, I'm with you

Im looking for a place
Searching for a face
Is there anybody here i know
Cause nothings going right
And everythigns a mess
And no one likes to be alone

Isn't anyone tryin to find me?
Won't someone please take me home
It's a damn cold night
Trying to figure out this life
Wont you take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I dont know who you are
But I'm, I'm with you

Oh why is everything so confusing
Maybe I'm just out of my mind
Yea yea yea

It's a damn cold night
Trying to figure out this life
Wont you take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I dont know who you are
But I'm, I'm with you

Take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I dont know who you are
But I'm, I'm with you
I'm with you

Take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I dont know who you are
But I'm, I'm with you
I'm with you
I'm with you...

Schwarzenegger..

By Dominik Schwind on August 28, 2003 6:38 PM

Well, let's see if that's going to hurt his campaign..

MM, Comments, IE and other terror..

By Dominik Schwind on August 28, 2003 12:53 PM

That link before - I got it from Markus Mählmann
He also pointed out, that there is some problem on the comments with the JavaScript and CSS under IE.. well.. I'll just kill the JavaScript tonight and see, what I can do about the CSS.. maybe just redirect all IE-users to mozilla.org?

German men..

By Dominik Schwind on August 28, 2003 12:17 PM

It's kind of interesting to see, how American girls see us German guys..

Tie your own package

By Dominik Schwind on August 27, 2003 3:57 PM

'nuff said..

The dream of every programmer..

By Dominik Schwind on August 25, 2003 6:52 PM

Und wenn man denkt, es geht nicht mehr..

By Dominik Schwind on August 25, 2003 4:52 PM

..kommt von irgendwo ein Hilfeformular her..

Busy, busy..

By Dominik Schwind on August 25, 2003 4:34 PM

There are actually days with so much work, that I can't think of something more interesting to post here.. ;-)

BMW 540i touring

By Dominik Schwind on August 24, 2003 9:45 PM

Hmmmm.....

Giacomo Brings

By Dominik Schwind on August 24, 2003 4:15 PM

The guy behind this button:

is Giacomo Brings, a friend of mine, who I met during army days. Even though he left after just some short while, we still keep contact and that's a fact, that I'm quite happy about.
By the way: he is the guy with the baby hamsters.

Webradio

By Dominik Schwind on August 24, 2003 3:29 PM

I just found a great web radio at PowerHitRadio.biz. Tune in and listen to the bad music, I wished for.. ;-)

A walk in the park

By Dominik Schwind on August 22, 2003 9:10 PM

(by the Nick Straker Band)

A walk in the park
I've got to get some sense back into my head
I'm in the dark and I can't see where I am being led
I'd give the world to set the clock back and act like a man
Where can I turn to save myself from this confusion

A walk in the park, a step in the dark
A walk in the park, a trip in the dark
I'm getting away escaping today

A walk in the park
Away from all the busy streets of my mind
I seek a straighter path
I seek a shady glade in which to unwind
But why do we go on in spite of mistakes, in spite of destruction
Life can be fun depending on your situation.

A walk in the park, a step in the dark
A walk in the park, a trip in the dark
I'm getting away escaping today

A walk in the park, a step in the dark
A walk in the park, a trip in the dark
I'm getting away escaping today
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Templates.. Part Deux

By Dominik Schwind on August 22, 2003 8:24 PM

Uh, now that's kinda cool.. MT doesn't rebuild all the daily archives with every new post. That would be weird, anyway.. so.. the recent entry list, that shows up on the sidepanel at the moment doesn't actually reflect the moment now, but rather the moment of the last rebuild.
Wicked..

Templates..

By Dominik Schwind on August 22, 2003 1:04 PM

.. are fun.

Continue reading Templates...

ToDo on this weblog..

By Dominik Schwind on August 22, 2003 12:41 PM

What I have to do on this weblog:

Fit archive templates into index-page look and feel.
Create Skip Navigation link
Use link-navigation
Provide alternate style sheet (maybe)

Damn..

By Dominik Schwind on August 22, 2003 12:25 PM

I don't have the Helvetica font on my system..

Petronas Towers as Ascii-Art

By Dominik Schwind on August 21, 2003 9:19 PM

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Kirara

By Dominik Schwind on August 21, 2003 9:12 PM

In one of the usenet groups I usually lurk, there is a japanese lady called Kirara posting, who has a great sense of humour. When I was in Malaysia in july, I found this store and I just had to take a picture:

Deutsch?

By Dominik Schwind on August 20, 2003 4:28 PM

Ich wurde in letzter Zeit wiederholt gefragt, warum ich diese Seite in erster Linie mit englischen Inhalten bedenke, obwohl doch die Domain eindeutig .de heißt und nicht etwa .com/.net/.org. Desweiteren habe ich natürlich auch meine Überlegungen für was und wen ich dieses Weblog überhaupt betreibe.
Da ich nunmal .de bin, werde ich auch beim Beta-Test des Weblogdirectory von blogg.de geführt, der unter beta.blogg.de zu finden ist. Und sollte ich von dort Besucher wünschen, würde ich vermutlich in erster Linie auf deutsch schreiben müssen, da dies dort die vorherrschende Sprache ist. Tatsache ist, daß die Hauptkundschaft meines Blogs aus den Menschen besteht, die ich auch über die diversen Instant Messaging-Dienste kenne und damit aus allen Ecken und Enden dieser Welt kommen. Und bei all diesen Leuten kann ich zwar davon ausgehen, daß sie englisch können und auch gewillt sind, es zu lesen, deutsche Texte aber nicht verstehen können.
Interessanterweise ist es bei einigen Leuten, die ich hier in Deutschland kenne, eher umgekehrt - eine gewisse Unlust, sich englische Texte durchzulesen kann ich durchaus feststellen, sogar bei Menschen, die des englischen durchaus mächtig sind, bzw. sein sollten.
Aber da ich ehrlich gesagt, trotz .de-Domain, nicht auf mein internationales Publikum verzichten will, werde ich hier nach wie vor den Großteil meiner Einträge hier auf Englisch tätigen.
Ich weiß, daß das nun viele Worte dafür waren, um zu sagen: es bleibt, wie es ist, aber da ich mehrmals darauf angesprochen wurde, dachte ich, ich müßte meine Gründe, hier hauptsächlich englisch zu posten(!), erklären.

Designing with Web Standards

By Dominik Schwind on August 20, 2003 12:29 PM

This button leads to the site to simply the best book about webdesign available: Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman.

Fight the alien invasion! (II)

By Dominik Schwind on August 19, 2003 10:13 PM

And by coincidence I just found a link at beta.blogg.de to a screenshot of the aforementioned site at the fscklog.

Fight the alien invasion!

By Dominik Schwind on August 19, 2003 9:55 PM

Someone commented on my entry about a webpage with drawings about aliens, made by children.. and lo, behold, it is the author of the page himself: Mister Michael Menkin:

He is the mastermind behind the thought screen helmet, a helmet, made to stop aliens control our minds. It can be seen at his creator's head on the picture above.
It seems to work quite well, as some testimonials on the page show:

Still nothing new to report here...so it must work!
It's hard to tell if it works or not. I think it works.
The aliens clearly do not like the helmet.

As long as humankind produces minds like Mister Menkin's mind and technology like his helmet, I am sure, we can win the Telepathic War against the alien intruders!

RSS Feed (II)

By Dominik Schwind on August 19, 2003 6:50 PM

After my fruitless tries with the RSSFeed plugin for Movable Type, I now fell back to what I know - PHP. So now I have the RSS feed from Mählmann and Zeldman in my left bar. How terribly exciting.. *yawn*

Pingpong Reloaded

By Dominik Schwind on August 19, 2003 5:24 PM

As I found on the M-E-X-Blog, they play pingpong in Matrix style in japan.. (video here)

87k

By Dominik Schwind on August 19, 2003 3:06 PM

Space age song.

Nook, again..

By Dominik Schwind on August 19, 2003 12:44 AM

The button for tonight is a link to my cute friend Nook from Taiwan. In fact, I started talking to her twin sister Diane one day during computer class at uni in ICQ, since I was pretty bored.. and after a while, she introduced me to Nook, and since we're having pretty much the same interests, we developed quite a friendship. Anyway, if you happen to understand Chinese, don't miss her page:

RSS Feed

By Dominik Schwind on August 18, 2003 9:24 PM

I try to put in the RSS Feed-plugin for MT here, but somehow, it doesn't work.. damn..

Post 200

By Dominik Schwind on August 18, 2003 9:17 PM

Since this is the 200th post, I decided to put something for the guys. It's not showing here, since it's not quite for young people.. but well.. here it is: a picture of a hot chick with a nice pussy.

Atomstrom..

By Dominik Schwind on August 18, 2003 1:01 PM

Atomkraft mal einfach erklärt bei den Kernkraft Kids..

Emancipation

By Dominik Schwind on August 18, 2003 11:20 AM

Andréa and a hot guy

By Dominik Schwind on August 17, 2003 11:06 PM

Okay, today in our edition of Buttons and Links:

Andréa's weblog, which she doesn't quite update so often - and usually, if she does, I don't get it anyway, since she's blogging in Brasil Portuguese.. I've known her like for ages now, actually ever since Napster was around and we keep talking about almost everything every night..
She also added some entries in my former 4friends weblog, which ceased to exist after a while and can be found scattered around the archives of this blog.

Now for the hot guy part of the title - I actually put up my picture at HotOrNot.com.. I know, it's damn silly and if one of my friends would do so, I wouldn't stop teasing him about it, but hey.. it's fun.. ;-) So.. go here and rate me..

Safe the planet..

By Dominik Schwind on August 17, 2003 10:38 PM

Here you can safe a planet.. take some time, since it's not so easy..

Nice car..

By Dominik Schwind on August 17, 2003 4:09 PM

I just found this:
Irgendwas ist ja immer: So Werbung wird ja gar nicht mehr gemacht
(Don't worry, dear English speaking audience, it's mostly in English.. )

Genki!

By Dominik Schwind on August 15, 2003 11:51 PM

Beta-Design for LostFocus.de

By Dominik Schwind on August 15, 2003 11:22 PM

Starting tonight, I have some test going on with a new design. It's far from done, there are not all entries and it's stripped down all the good stuff. (like pictures, links etc..) Maybe you still want to have a look at it here.

Aliens and Children

By Dominik Schwind on August 15, 2003 5:44 PM

I just found a page with drawings of aliens by children.. it's weird, but worth a visit..

Spekulativer Journalismus..

By Dominik Schwind on August 15, 2003 4:48 PM

Grad eben kam eine sehr nette Meldung über den heise-Newsticker... Jungs, Jungs, ist es bei euch zu heiss? ;-)

Dance the warm-up..

By Dominik Schwind on August 15, 2003 3:53 PM

Dance the warm-up...
Spiderman!

Hildebrand Group

By Dominik Schwind on August 15, 2003 11:20 AM

This button here:

leads to the blog of my uncle's family.

iMood

By Dominik Schwind on August 15, 2003 11:14 AM

I just removed the iMood indicator from the side-panel.. somehow the server was down lately and I didn't change it anyway, I was being sleepy all the time. Well, I am.

I want that job..

By Dominik Schwind on August 15, 2003 10:39 AM

This one sounds like a great job ad..

Alizee

By Dominik Schwind on August 14, 2003 8:13 PM

Just today the new CD of Alizee - called Mes Courants Electriques... - arrived here and just like with the first album, I really like this one. Not that I understand much, but her voice is.. hm.. sultry.. and well, she's kinda cute, isn't she?

The Answer..

By Dominik Schwind on August 14, 2003 5:11 PM

Google knows it's stuff.. ask it about the answer to life, the universe and everything and you'll get the answer..
Thanks to H-Blog for that.

Frauen..

By Dominik Schwind on August 14, 2003 2:10 PM

Gerade bei heise.de gefunden: Frauen kommt es im Web auf Usability an, was übersetzt bedeutet, daß sie zu komplizierte Seiten wohl nicht verstehen....

Junior Consultant

By Dominik Schwind on August 13, 2003 11:39 PM

Button 3:

This button links to my Junior Consultant page. The letters STZ on the button show, that I'm working at STZ IT Business Consulting. Actually I just wanted the domain for the cool domain name, so there isn't so much content there..

Bill Gates und Apple

By Dominik Schwind on August 13, 2003 5:52 PM

Bei Spiegel.de habe ich gerade gefunden, daß Bill Gates mal Werbung für Apple gemacht hat..

Freies Baden

By Dominik Schwind on August 13, 2003 4:08 PM

Wer bei der Überschrift an Wasser denkt, liegt ein kleines bißchen falsch.. schaut hier..

Digital Imaging..

By Dominik Schwind on August 13, 2003 3:10 PM

That's what digital imaging can do..
(Found at (conspirat) comm port™)

Desksharing?

By Dominik Schwind on August 13, 2003 2:56 PM

Uhm.. no.. it's my.. it's my.. my precious.. my precious..

Skifahrer sind die besseren Liebhaber

By Dominik Schwind on August 12, 2003 10:01 PM

And in our series about buttons today:

(Why do I have a Déjà Vu just now?) Anyway.. why this button and even more interesting: why this page? Well, the short answer: Because I can. For the long answer, you should know some German, sorry.. ;-)
Also, dann mal auf Deutsch weiter, um das Sprachengemisch auf dieser Seite noch ein bißchen zu erweitern.. Warum eine Seite mit der unglaublich tollen URL www.skifahrer-sind-die-besseren-liebhaber.de? Nun aus dem ganz einfachen Grund, daß das etwas ist, was mal wieder gesagt werden muß. Scharenweise schnallen sich die kleinen Kinder ein einzelnes Brett unter die Füße mit dem traurigen Ergebnis, daß sie nachher im kalten Schnee sitzen und daß das der männlichen Anatomie nicht so unbedingt gut tut, braucht man sicher nicht erzählen.. Traurig, aber wahr. Und trotzdem sind viele Frauen dumm genug, Snowboarder cooler zu finden.. tja.. Mädels.. überlegt mal.. mit wem könnte der ganz persönliche Einkehrschwung mehr Spaß machen? Mit dem schlurfigen, dazu meistens noch zugekifften Snowboarder, dem durch genüssliches Sitzen im kalten Schnee das Erreichen der Betriebstemperatur so richtig schwer fallen mag, oder mit dem attraktiven, jung-dynamischen Skifahrer, dem zwar sein Werkzeug nicht eingefroren ist, der aber durch das ständige Wedeln einen interessanten Drang zu Hüftschwüngen entwickelt hat?

Programmer or Killer?

By Dominik Schwind on August 12, 2003 9:31 PM

malevole - Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?

Multilanguage blogging.

By Dominik Schwind on August 12, 2003 4:32 PM

I just had some thoughts about my blog here. Yes, I do sometimes thing about those kind of things, especially in this hot weather. Anyway.. I was thinking about my recent attempt to put some content here in German and that it's actually a mighty dumb idea to just mix the languages. First of all, I know, I shouldn't be blogging mainly in English, especially since the page has a German domain (.de) and well, because my English isn't quite as good as I wish I would be.
On the other hand, my readers are hopefully those people I talk to on ICQ quite often or those, who find the blog by accident on some of those blog-listing pages and - believe it or not - those are all in English language. Apart from that, for some maybe even perverted reason, which I didn't find out about, yet, I feel more comfortable to write stuff in English than in German. Don't ask me, why, it's just like that.
So I guess, I'll keep on writing in English here, but try hard to put more and more entries in German. Uhm, I just put up a whole lot of words, without saying much, hm? Well.. that's my job..

Wah!

By Dominik Schwind on August 12, 2003 9:58 AM

Nook :-D

By Dominik Schwind on August 11, 2003 9:47 PM

My friend Nook Lee from Taiwan:

Don't forget to visit her page.

Buttonitis

By Dominik Schwind on August 11, 2003 9:38 PM

Starting from now, I'll explain all those funny little buttons on the left, the pages, that they link to and how my relationship is to their owner and ideas.
To start really basic, I'll now explain

which is nothing but a link to my own personal webpage, which I sadly didn't update at all for a long, long while.. and yes, I left it behind looking really ugly.

Dog Manual

By Dominik Schwind on August 11, 2003 3:44 PM

The Dog Manual

Absolutly nothing..

By Dominik Schwind on August 10, 2003 10:11 PM

to tell right now. Sad, uh?

A scene from Mission: Impossible

By Dominik Schwind on August 9, 2003 11:03 AM

Parent 1:: Hey, it's about 8:30, in about half an hour the guy who puts in our new floor will be here.
Parent 2:: Well, we should wake up Dominik, after all, he's still sleeping and the connecting door to his room is not in at the moment.
Parent 1:
: What a brilliant idea, I guess he'd rather get up with someone of us waking him instead of some guy cursing about having to work on a saturday..

10 at the office..

By Dominik Schwind on August 9, 2003 12:01 AM

I just went to my workplace to shut down the computer after some compiling work.. uh, it's kinda eerie being there at 10 in the night.. ;-)

This dude gets it right..

By Dominik Schwind on August 8, 2003 11:29 PM

Just as a add-on to my entry a couple of.. uh.. second ago:
I can't help but have the same opinion at the webmaster of NoFlashMob..

FlashMob or: The Art Of Being A Follower

By Dominik Schwind on August 8, 2003 11:26 PM

When I read the blogs and news magazines of the last couple of days, there is one word, I keep on stumbling upon: FlashMob.
It's nothing else than a bunch of people, gathering on some place to do something stupid. And well, they do meet over the internet. That alone sounds actually quite fun, but believe it or not, people: it's already out! Rather than being the 1000st idiot redneck, who rounds up a couple of buddys and calls it a FlashMob, (question to my German speaking audience: H

Listing deutscher Blogs

By Dominik Schwind on August 8, 2003 9:28 PM

Unter blogg.de soll es demnächst wohl ein Listing deutschsprachiger Weblogs geben. Wer jetzt schon reinschauen will, kann dies unter beta.blogg.de machen..
Starting with this one, I'll also put some of my entries in German.. don't care too much, they're not much more intelligent than my normal entries.. ;-)

Junior Consultant

By Dominik Schwind on August 8, 2003 1:18 PM

By the way.. I'm a Junior Consultant..

Google answers..

By Dominik Schwind on August 8, 2003 12:37 AM

Google Answers: finding a link with Http://

Mess!

By Dominik Schwind on August 7, 2003 11:47 PM

It's fun, cleaning up after renovation..
Especially in this weather..

Whoa, someone links me..

By Dominik Schwind on August 7, 2003 5:39 PM

I don't know this guy, but for some reason he linked my blog. Well, his is actually quite a cool blog, so check it out..

More SARS drinks..

By Dominik Schwind on August 6, 2003 10:27 PM

As kentucky.com posted in april, they actually DO have a Sars Soft Drink ...

Whoa, damn walls..

By Dominik Schwind on August 6, 2003 9:56 PM

Why can't walls stay white? It kinda sucks having to move all the furniture around on a hot day like today, just so that the wall can get another layer of colour, that's going to turn grey anyway tomorrow?

I can see clearly now..

By Dominik Schwind on August 5, 2003 4:30 PM

the rain has gone..
Now it would just be really interesting to know, where it went. All over Europe, there seems to be no water anymore. My plans to starting my own Banana Republic in my parent's garden seem to be more and more realistic every day. Well, fact is, here at the office, the weather is slightly changing the working behaviour. We still do work, but it's more in a state of sullen silence, hidden from the sun and the outside by heavy curtains all over the windows. And boy, boy, do we consume mineral water.. I'm already through my third bottle today and we only have 2:30pm, yet..

:-(

By Dominik Schwind on August 5, 2003 11:40 AM

Turn's out, that it doesn't work so well..

w.bloggar

By Dominik Schwind on August 5, 2003 11:35 AM

I'm just about to try wBloggar, let's see, if that's working..

Weather Quiz

By Dominik Schwind on August 4, 2003 3:28 PM | No Comments

If it is 38C in the shades, how hot is it under a not very well isolated wooden roof?

Transitional..

By Dominik Schwind on August 3, 2003 6:01 PM

The weather is still too hot and my desk is still too absent for me to really give the tamplates here on my page a good kick. But as I said in the entry LostFocus: LazyBoy.. yesterday, I want to have my page at least slightly XHTML valid. I kinda kicked around the template and some older entries and at least now the whole thing is XHTML 1.0 transitional valid.

Movable Type

By Dominik Schwind on August 2, 2003 4:14 PM

Ever since I started using Movable Type, I couldn't help wondering, how exactly this trackback thing is actually working. Nicely enough, they set up a guide for beginners, that everybody should check out: TrackBack Development: TrackBack for Beginners

LazyBoy..

By Dominik Schwind on August 2, 2003 3:24 PM

Ah, I moved the redesign of the weblog in some far future.. I want to make the whole thing XHTML 1.0 strict valid* and that's going to be a bit of work.

* for those of you, who don't know, what this is: read this book:

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