While the graph is more or less a toy, flickr's new moblogging feature is a killer. It turns this incredible social software for photo sharing into a powerful personal publishing machine. Looks like I need to get a mobile phone with a camera now. Or get a mobile phone at all, for that matter. This is great news. I really like those friendly geniusses at flickr always finding the time to listen to their users and implementing features with speed and style. Highly recommended.

I actually have a soft spot for Linux somewhere in my heart (although I feel much more at home on a NetBSD system). It's free, it's geeky, it's not Microsoft, what's not to love? I also have to admit that I've not been using Linux on my desktop for quite some time now, so I might miss some part of the magic: as a co-worker remarked when he saw me doing my kernel configuration with the console-based "make config": "It's been quite a while since you last used Linux, eh?". Heck, I didn't even know they had a working curses front-end now. He even mentioned a GTK kernel configurator. Pah, kids these days, they have it too easy...

But although Linux has matured quite remarkably (and VMWare has become extremely nifty), it's still plain ugly when it comes to the desktop. Note that I'm desktop-agnostic: I'd use both KDE or Gnome, but both still just don't cut it. I've lost count how many times I cursed out loud due to the absence of Mac OS X's wonderful Exposé feature. I can happily live without multi-buttoned mice and virtual desktops any day, as long as I have Exposé. Oh, and Aqua. And the iApps. And SubEthaEdit. And working hardware detection. And a delicious BSD system underneath it all....

I recently moved inside Bonn, from the "Altstadt" (Old Town) to the even older part of Bonn-Kastell. The name stems from Latin "Castellum" or little castle. It was here that Drusus Germanicus had the idea of building a military camp for the Roman army at the banks of the river Rhine on their way to Colonia Agrippina or Cologne, as we now call it. Relicts of the Romans are abundant here. In fact, city officials often don't know where to put all the stuff, so they leave them in place, like this tombstone of a former slave which is now in front of the supermarket in our neighbourhood. Click on the photo to read a translation of the inscription

Posted by johl from Flickr.

• Tosca: Ocean Beat
• Bjork: Frosti
• Joy Division: These Days
• Yonderboi: The Severance
• Bran Van 3000: Forest
• Barbara Morgenstern: Is
• Thievery Corporation: Interlude
• Tosca: Fuck Dub (Baby Mammoth Mix Nr. 3)
• Fatboy Slim: The Rockafeller Skank
• 2raumwohnung: Wirklich Sein
• Aphex Twin: Une Femme N'est Pas Un Homme (Aphex Twin Mix)
• Autechre: Eidetic Casein
• Tabla Vin: Dayz Trippers (Destination Mix)
• Morcheeba: The Sea
• Cinematic Orchestra: Melody
• Willie Bobo: Fried Neckbones And Some Home Fries (Dan The Automator Remix)
• The Velvet Underground: Sister Ray
• Welle:Erdball: 23... (C=64er Version)

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