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Europa Island – the place to go

Looking on arte.tv at the french elecetions, we see that one of the candidates went to La Reunion to get more supporters. La Reunion? Another overseas departement of France, like the one we visited, Martinique.

So browsing in wikipedia on these things, we find that France has a lot of overseas departments and territories (which are all on the EURO bills). And then I found the dream island – EUROPA

  • its got a cool name
  • people tried to inhabit it but died – I love the challenge
  • its part of the EU – what could seriously happen when going there (although madagascar claims it)
  • and finally, I got convinced by this sentence: The island … has a meteorological station and is visited by scientists.

I am a scientist! I can go there!

This is a moment like Johannes Grenzfurthner had it when he fell on a world map in front of the Museumsquartier and hit an antarctic island with his nose: lets find out how to get there.

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Matatour 2007 – chilliger carribean Törn

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This entry in german, as most people involved are german speaking… non-german speakers enjoy watching the video or the pics.

Wie schon angekündigt, waren wir von 27.1.2007 bis 11.2.2007 auf einem Yacht-Törn in der Karibik. Wir sind in Martinique mit einem Katamaran gestartet, dann mit vielen Stops in den Süden und zurück. Jeden Tag Sonne, Palmen, Segeln, viel Regen und karibisches Essen.

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typo3 board 07 – podcast

back to work, back to the web, just sitting on my couch with Rinne, a typo 3 guy who was with the T3BOARD07 – a snowboarding week of typo3 geek and geekines.

watch their amazing video of a week of snow and party…

Colorful and entertaining report from the TYPO3 event of the year!. T3BOARD07 was held in France, Les Deux Alpes, last week in January – the 6th time! 130 participants from 10 countries in Europe. You will see snow, people, girls, football, tour de chambres and what was on the agenda for the lucky ones. And some extra gags are thrown in.


THE VIDEO

Hey, we should do the same with Semantic Desktop in Europe. The Semantic Snow 2008 – who is in?

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Back on Martinique

We were on a sailtrip for the last two weeks, offline from the … how do you call it… web?

Two weeks of looking at palm islands in the carribean, it was truly nice. Sunday evening I will be home again and show pictures, the Mangobay bar here has creepy slow internet.

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See you in two weeks, I am on the beach

Announcement: I will be on holiday, sailing in the Carribean, for the next two weeks. I will be back at around 13th February. Leo Sauermann will not answer your e-mails, phone calls or anything else, I will be offline.

We are sailing on a big catamaran, starting in Martinique and then, who knows where the wind brings us. Its ten people on a boat, and I think we will have a lot of things to do, like drinking beer and getting a sun tan.

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Semantic Desktop Article in “Technology Review”

The word is out there – the german “Technology Review” magazine, a partner of MIT’s technology review, has published an article about the semantic desktop and myself in its februar issue.

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If you happen to be in a german-speaking country like Germany, Austria or Switzerland, go to a good bookstore and buy the february 2007 issue. The article sums up my idea of a Semantic Desktop very good, and they also have nice articles on the future of food. The keypoint is, that Semantic Web is a good idea, and Semantic Desktop can help start it.

Gordon Bolduan interviewed me, and I will publish a photo of him interviewing me (which I made) later in February – because I am going on holiday now! see the next post for more…

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Making desktop search worth it: connecting strigi, beagle++, aperture

Did you ever ask yourself why you can’t find anything on your own computer, but can find stuff in the internet? Its the great search engines.

On the desktop, the Nepomuk project is aiming to enhance desktop search with semantic features. So additional to asking “where are these files with ‘money'” you can ask for things related to job offers within the last month.

Sebastian Trüg (whom you may know because you have been using K3B to burn CDs, watch the “about” window of this KDE app) is leading the Semantic Desktop integration for KDE, and he connected us with many other people, for example Jos van den Oever from the Strigi project.

We have set up a wiki page with plans for the future, and will try to integrate RDF search with fulltext search. This would allow a very generic, “technically beautiful” solution to data indexing, RDF is very generic and reusable and fulltext-indexing is quite handy already.

Pray for us, hold your thumbs, if all goes well, we will agree on one standard and desktop search will rock and roll.

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Powerpoint Karaoke im Kliklokal am 20.1.2007 – und Donnerstag TGE!

Diesen Samstag hatten wir eine Powerpoint Karaoke im Kliklokal in Kaiserslautern, Schillerplatz 4. Ein schöner Event, vielleicht kommentiert ihr einfach unter den Bildern oder hier eure Eindrücke.

Insgesamt waren wir etwa 40 Leute, viele Folien, super Stimmung. Die Hütte war voll.

Hier die Pics:
Powerpoint Karaoke, Julian

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leobard/sets/72157594496501173/

Achtung! Am Donnerstag, 25.Januar 2007 abends um 20:00 ist “The Great Escape Deluxe” im Kliklokal, und am Samstag ist große Abschlussparty. Haltet es nicht geheim!

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Endless Bar in Kaiserslautern

You think you are at the end of the world? You’ve not been to Kaiserslautern yet 🙂

I, urban, want to connect to people in big cities – to do this we have projects like “silver fire” or “endless bar”. We connect to people all over the world using Video-Conferencing software.

Last Friday we connected Kliklokal in Kaiserslautern with St Oberholz in Berlin. On the Kaiserslautern side were Martin, Katrin, Antoni, Jochen, etc etc on the Berlin side Richard and Arne.

Here are Arne’s Pics:




Endles Bar Set by Blogwerk/Arne


Originally uploaded by Blogwerk.

Here are my Pics:

Verlängerte Theke