waiting for my tutor

it's 9:11 am, i'm at my company since 8, waiting for my tutor to arrive from holiday ;) as i can't even install anything on my machine, i have some time exploring nice things on the web.

first thing: checking the internet connection:
http://speedtest.net/

second thing: find the coffee machine (and realize that the canteen people are on holiday)

third thing: learn about csUnit:
http://www.csunit.org/tutorials/tutorial7/

forth thing: find out that the printer doesn't work... and that i'd need a beer crate to climb on for reading the error messages on the printer...

All beautiful moments..

..will pass eventually. It's in their nature. So don't worry about where they came from or how long they will last, but feel them, live them fully as long as they are there. This way, instead of leaving a gap, they will add to your life.

classifying strengths and weaknesses...

Your friends have voted on your strengths and weaknesses:

STRENGTHS:

best listener
prettiest
most desired for marriage

WEAKNESSES:

most absentee
most adventurous

Your mistakes are your friends

Yesterday in a completely crammed tram I witnessed an impressive interpretation of this phrase.

Next to me a woman was sitting, listening to some music (not exactly my style, but never mind ;). Opposite was another woman, which suddenly turned towards my neighbour, asking: "Sorry for disturbing, but where did you get this nice player? It's so cool and small, just to clip it to the jacket!" - The other one was a bit startled but told her this was the ipod shuffle and the shop where she got it from.

The woman took out some really colourful book and a calligraphy pen (with violet ink!), wrote down "ipod schaffel, saturn", looked a bit doubtful and showed it to the other one - "Like this?" When the other woman corrected her, I expected her to cross out her 'silly' writing, as i would have done. But instead she smiled to herself, chuckled, and drew a heart shape around it!

Sounds very trivial, but the moment was so impressive that the woman next to me and myself exchanged surprised glances. It's just not so common to deal with these kind of mistakes in that way, even though some wise people keep advising it very convincingly.

listen with headphones and closed eyes

don't worry?

I wonder if it is any use in life to worry about small things (and maybe even big ones?). I mean, there are certain things that might happen and that won't be nice. But if they need to happen, they will if we worried or not. (Actually, sometimes i guess they might happen even faster..)

So if things happen anyway, the difference lies in our own attitude: do we enjoy the good things we have and the possibilities in life, or do we spend all this time with worrying?

Actually, i wonder if it is about what one believes in; if one is generally optimistic and seeing chances at every corner, or if one is afraid of new things, trying to keep the familiar as unchanged as possible?

streichQuartett

"wieviel hubraum hat deine geige? hehe, meine hat mehr, stich!"

come rain, come shine

or both at the same time...

looking for amoeba

it should be some multicomputer operating system... but as i found on wikipedia, it's also the name of a water device with the curious name Advanced Multiple Organized Experimental Basin with which you can write letters in a water basin...

For further information check out this article.

my blue face