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Yesterday I had a brief Twitter discussion with @halfbyte and @stilkov about “owning your mail” .

Last time I was at a concert of Stephan Eicher must have been in the mid 1980s.

I have had a blast today, working on my “Introduction to Music Production” assignment and had planned to write something about the learning process.

While surfing the Interwebs (looking at private cloud solutions - I plan to give a talk about that later in the year), I also looked at OpenStack.

Much has been spoken about the pros and cons of pair programming.

My iPhone is shuffling through my 20'000 or so tracks I have in iTunes - every day I get to hear around 30 minutes of music - often stuff I had forgotten I had or not heard in a long time.

A couple of weeks ago we had a photographer coming to our office - the technical HQ of Mobino.

Es hätte schlimmer kommen können.

Everyone with a teenage son will know that this species spends an incredible amount of time in front of game consoles and computers if left to their own devices.

It has been a long time since I was out in a bar with a friend, talking for 3 hours over a couple of beers.

When I teach my students the beginning points of monkey patching I usually get a gasp or two, a muttered curse and something like “I will never want to maintain something like that”.

The Coursera Songwriting and Music Production classes I’m taking are being discussed over on the Justinguitar forums.

Today I was invited to a friendly talk with two Orange network engineers to talk about - tada - the Orange Cellular network in Switzerland.

“I can sleep when I’m dead” and “sleep is overrated” Those were things a younger me said one in a while.

As I have nothing really to say today, I will use this space to make a meta tweet.

Tim Bray Out me onto reading Charles Stross with his review Robot Sex-Slave Blues of “Saturns Children”.

My post on augmentation a couple of days ago felt kind of unfinished.

With many greetings to our Chinese intern, Chengchen, who spent the last couple of days at our house and was a wonderful guest.

Constraints set us free.

Last year I started to work at the ZHAW (were work means: part time, coaching student teams of two on a semester long software project).

Via Ned Batchelder comes this wonderful Regular Expression Puzzle (Click for PDF version) Each cell is constrained by three regular expressions, and according to the author of the puzzle, there is one unique solution to it.

Kickstarter is a huge time and money sink - all those nifty projects, great ideas, great artists… Last year I spent way too much money on nice projects, some of them turned out to be not so hot as thought (CordCruncher, I’m looking at you) But today, comi…

I have a long fascination with augmentation through the use of computers.

Today we did the tour from Weisshorn to Molinis, that Adi hinted at earlier this week.

0 phone calls (but one intended one that didn’t connect) 1 DM on Twitter 1 message on Viber 2 messages on Whatsapp 3 mentions on Twitter 3 4 5 messages on Skype 3 private messages on Facebook 3 messages on LinkedIn 4 5 emails 4 hugs 5 hand shakes 4 SMS 8…

10 years ago (actually 10 years and 2 days ago - but Wordpress missed the scheduled release date of this post, so here it is - manually published) And I had a blog before that (Moveable Type based) and still another one (written in Python).

When we are here in Arosa, we take ski lessons with Adi - a known teacher here.

Title inspired by Rubén Parés-Selders and Erhard Karger

Just stumbled upon this gem of a responsive website.

We have arrived, Zoë and I already spent a couple of hours on the slopes (in wonderful weather).

The family and I will be packing up tonight and heading to the mountains tomorrow for a week of sunshine (promised), skiing (expected), dwelling in the spa (relaxed) and pampered by be the hotel (appreciated) This is the third time we are heading to the H…

This is more a plea for help than a real blog post.

One of the first programming environments I worked with was the 6502 CPU and its assembler.

Every web application needs to do things asynchronously.

When I did my Masters in Science, I had to take a number of modules on topics that were wasted time (“Web Programming in XHTML and PHP” being my absolute favorite time and energy wasting exercise), but one module where I learned heaps and heaps was “Secur…

We are almost back to normal here at Mobino dev center, and I wanted to share a video with you, that was made at Lift13 by Charbax and in a few minutes shows you both how the payment process with Mobino works, and some thoughts from our CEO about the prod…

To all of you who wondered what the day of woodcarving produced: A guitar stand for my Telecaster and the Norman acoustic.

Thanks to @baltasarw I spent most of today with Toni and Anneli Lengen in Stallikon, in their HolzSach Atelier carving wood - with a chainsaw… Starting with this large piece of poplar: I ended up with this: Do you know what it is?

3 intense days (and 2 intense weeks leading up to) of Lift13 are over.

Todays takeaway of Lift13?

Lift 13 started today - early for Alvaro and me, who took the Roeschtigrabenexpress from Zurich to Geneva.

The Stockholm Syndrome is described as when hostages evolve sympathy or empathy with their captors.

One of the things that make me incredibly happy about my line of work is the following: In every case, when things don’t work (there are errors, strange behaviours, weird things) there is a reason.

Living a life can be difficult.

Every couple of months, we get a visit by one of the great Aikido masters in our Dojo.

A long long time ago (8 years) three crazy people started a project called Zappata.

As you may have seen in my post about habits I am practicing guitar daily (and have been doing for a bit over a year now).

Notice the size of the scroll bar to the right….

Yesterday saw the Mobino team work a 16 hour day to release another iOS version of the Mobino application.