Scribbled on April 29th, 2008 - filed under Around The Web.
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This is really unbelievable…
–> www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIn-sMq8-Ls
Found via digg.com.
Scribbled on April 27th, 2008 - filed under Miscellaneous Stuff.
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Today, I tried to stitch together my first panorama image, and I must say I am a little proud of myself. The panorama image shows about 180 degrees and consists of 8 pictures. All you have to do is to take a tripod, take a picture, turn the camera around so that you always have [...]
Scribbled on April 21st, 2008 - filed under Miscellaneous Stuff.
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I just recently had to extract some images from Microsoft Word, because they were embedded and I did not have access to the original photos.
I tried to copy them and then insert them into my graphics application - that did not work: “You cannot insert a file!” So I just dragged the pictures with the [...]
Scribbled on April 20th, 2008 - filed under Personal Stuff.
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I just bought this nice Mercedes automatic watch at the hotel “Freizeit In” in Göttingen today - for 40% off.
The funny thing is: I do not know the funtion of the display on the right, above the day of the month. It seems to show if it is morning or evening, just as other watches [...]
Scribbled on April 19th, 2008 - filed under Around The Web.
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I stumbled across this nice online tool where you can test regular expressions - very useful if you need to verify them.
RegExr - Online Regular Expression Testing Tool:
gskinner.com/RegExr/
Scribbled on April 18th, 2008 - filed under Music Stuff.
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I’ve just returned from an amazing concert by Katie Melua which took place in the AWD-Hall in Hannover, Germany as part of her “Pictures” tour. Unfortunately, I am pretty tired, so I will just write down the setlist and give some more information later.
01. Piece By Piece
02. Belfast (Penguins And Cats)
03. Lilac Wine (Jeff Buckley [...]
Scribbled on April 9th, 2008 - filed under WordPress Stuff.
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Check out firestats.cc for a nice WordPress plugin that gives you a detailed analysis of your website visitors.
[Update from 2008-05-09]
Cool, FireStats helped me to see that my website was under attack.
[Update from 2008-07-07]
Since FireStats is a little too blown up in terms of file count and database usage, I decided to get rid of it. [...]
Scribbled on April 9th, 2008 - filed under Gaming Stuff.
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I just finished “Call Of Duty 4″ on my PC on difficulty level 2 which I believe is “regular”.
COD4 is undoubtedly the best shooter I have seen so far (except Crysis, of course, which I have only seen on my GameStar DVDs because it won’t run on my machine).
“Call Of Duty” official website:
http://www.callofduty.com
“Charlie Oscar Delta” [...]
Scribbled on April 7th, 2008 - filed under Miscellaneous Stuff.
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To make the WordPress plugin “Popularity Contest” start from the beginning, deactivate the plugin and empty the table wp_ak_popularity with the following SQL-Statement:
TRUNCATE TABLE `wp_ak_popularity`
Then, reactivate the plugin.
If you want to reset the WordPress plugin “WP-PostViews” to make it count from scratch, deactivate the plugin, then use
UPDATE `wp_postmeta` SET meta_value = 0 WHERE meta_key = [...]
Scribbled on April 2nd, 2008 - filed under Miscellaneous Stuff.
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Whenever I add a file or folder in Windows Explorer (XP), it is added at the end of all files - although I want to have them automatically sorted by name. Even pressing F5 for a refresh does not work. The only possibility is “View -> Sort Items -> By Name” (I am using the [...]
