Archive January 2012

Lawyers consulted for this research are also surprised that Wulff allegedly made his name available free of charge to a law firm for more than 15 years, without being compensated for it or making arrangements for a later return to the firm. For example, the managing director of a large law firm that employs former government members calls Wulff's account to tagesschau.de "absolutely unrealistic": "That a politician provides his reputation and thus also his contacts out of pure charity is not known to me, lavish fees are usual" explained the lawyer, who does not want to be named.

via Bundespräsident Wulff verschwieg Beziehung zu Geerkens. Sometimes you don't need to write anything more about the news, sometimes they just speak for themselves.

Back from Amsterdam

Silhouetten von Baumkronen unter einem klaren blauen Himmel mit Wolken. Straßenszene mit alten, farbenprächtigen Häusern in Amsterdam. Ein gelbes Wasser Taxi auf einem ruhigen Kanal. Eine Kanalstraße mit Häusern und Parkplätzen in Amsterdam. Eine Kanalstraße in Amsterdam mit reflektierten Gebäuden Eine Schiffsmündung mit mehreren historischen Schiffen im Hafen Ein blaues Gebäude mit einer Brücke über einen Fluss. Ein rotes Pagoden-Restaurant und ein Schiff auf einem Fluss in Amsterdam. Ein modernes Gebäude und eine Turm-Datenanzeige am Hafen. Ein Engel-Statuen auf einem alten, braunen Gebäude mit dem Schriftzug 1843. Eine Reihe von alten, braunen Häusern mit unterschiedlichen Dachformen. Ein hoher, gotischer Kircheneturm mit mehreren Glocken unter einem bewölkten Himmel.

Back from the course, lost my mind and a few things in my notebook bag, which a Dutch car thief took with him when he broke into our car (no, not the mind, it just suffered in the three weeks before). Well. Life sucks sometimes.

Iñigo Quilez - fractals, computer graphics, mathematics, demoscene and more. Interesting small programs that generate beautiful images and provide some background and mathematical foundations for some of the algorithms. And also a lot of other interesting graphics stuff. Something to browse through for quiet hours and perhaps some inspiration to program one thing or another (where he provides the basics).

Technical Documentation of the Pistos Diaspora forks with a whole lot of interesting features that go beyond the normal Diaspora code. There are some things in there that really interest me, maybe I should think about moving to Amsterdam. Therefore, here's a blog reminder.

FPC New Features 2.6.0 - Lazarus wiki. And further nice changes in FreePascal, especially the new Delphi features will certainly interest one or the other, or also the further expanded ObjectPascal dialect for Cocoa programming under OSX. If now Lazarus switches from Carbon to standard Cocoa and thus also becomes fully 64-bit, it will become really interesting even for normal work with it. In any case, if you don't like Objective-C. Or if you prefer the Delphi-like environment of the XCode environment.

Sony "approves" the launch the new hybrid AlphaNex mount camera (sort of fullframe NEX-7!). It's much more fun when you simply release new cameras instead of finally expanding the system. Somehow you might get the idea that Sony is spreading itself too thin with the new camera models. Sure, they are great - the 5N is really nice and the 7 sounds really good and this one also sounds interesting. But I can't help but notice that the 50/1.8 is still not available in Germany and some other lenses are also not yet available - and even if all the announcements are finally here, there are still big gaps in the setup. A system only truly comes to life when it can be used as a system - otherwise it is at best a kind of "configurable compact". And the system is actually too interesting to be parked on the sidelines. For me, this has led to a reorientation towards my Micro-4/3 equipment, because there is clearly more movement there at the moment (and thus the chance that the holes that bother me will be filled sooner).