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Heute Morgen im 34ger-Bus. Ich steige ein, mache gerade noch die Email-Applikation auf meinem iPhone zu, und will es gerade wegstecken.
Mann im Bus: “iPod oder iPhone?”
Ich (perplex): “iPhone.”
Er: “Hier, setz dich neben mich! (rückt zur Seite) Ich hab nämlich auch eins, willst Du’s sehen?”
Nein, wollte ich nicht, ich glaub’s ihm [...]

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This Saturday, we first wanted to go out after dinner, for a drink or so. But then, we ended up on our balcony, with lots of candles & a good bottle of wine, which was great! Maybe I’m getting old and comfortable?

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… oder so ähnlich.
Seit heute gehören wir nicht mehr zum aus-Amerika-importierenden Backwater, sondern dürfen unsere iPhones ganz normal im Laden kaufen, bei Swisscom und Orange vorerst.
Ich will ja nicht immer nur meckern, aber wenn man schon heftig den Hype um das iPhone 3G mit ganzseitigen Anzeigen mitanfacht, sollte man vielleicht [...]

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Today, Google announces the open-sourcing of their Protocol Buffers project. From a first glance, it seems to be a high-performance way to exchange deep data structures between different services (it seems Google has a need for that — they claim that their production servers constantly run at full capacity). XML parsing [...]

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My handwriting sucks. That’s why I use a keyboard whenever I need to make sure that what I write down is actually read/write. Still, I am very fond of good design, and of good typefaces.
The man in blue is wondering about the typeface designers themselves: “There’s great power in a typeface, [...]

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And another recipe. This was the other dish that required a bit of prep time at last Sunday’s party. But believe me – it’s worth every minute of it! The dipping sauce is complex to make, but also complex in flavors, which more than offsets the time spent in the kitchen. In preparing [...]

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Summer is finally here! And when we’re suffering from the heat, why not cool down a bit with a classic Spanish summer dish: Gazpacho, cold tomato soup. I just cooked this for a party of 20 last Sunday, and no one complained. My personal interpretation of this classic looks as follows after the fold.

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