the dao of flow

Finally I finished a new theme for my page that suits my functional and aesthetic wishes. Currently I think it is too early for HTML5/CSS3 but I will move to it at some point based on the current theme. Additionally I changed the name of the blog to something more meaningful – “dao of [...]

There were two other HAR presentations that I like to recommend: At first Roger Dingledine explained the performance issue of the network privacy tool TOR in his talk and the ways of dealing with this in the future. He had a lot of small anecdotes about the project that made the talk really interesting [...]

At HAR are some electro mobility hardware hacks around and people are usually happy to offer a test ride.

It’s summer hacking camp time again! The Hacking at Random (HAR) opened its gates on Thursday and a lot of interesting things have been going on there since that. As usual I want to share some of my personal views on selected parts of this huge event and give some insights about what is [...]

Here comes just a quick movie recommendation of a film that I haven’t even seen so far but am quite excited about. I am talking about the documentary “Home” by the French journalist Yann Arthus-Bertrand. It captures the beauty and diversity of the earth and shows the negative impact of the human culture in aerial [...]

The financial crisis and the climate change should make everybody think about our current global financial system and its implications to society. Most actions that are taken by governments, banks and companies are superficial or even just populist window dressing and only aim to maintain a sick and weak system. Artificial stimulation of the consumption [...]

Pumping data into the cloud is getting more and more popular. Although I like the scalability, flexibility and also the more efficient use of computation power I think it brings a lot of disadvantages (privacy, vendor lock, etc.) with it. Luckily open source projects like GroundOS (which will be released soon) start to offer open [...]

Yes, I did it! I bought an ukulele. I have to admit that I was heavily influence by Tom Hodgkinson but I was looking for something like that for a while (until recently I considered to buy a melodica) and just missed the final push to buy it. The ukulele is a perfect solution if [...]