This blog is officially dead since October 2009. And yet, there are still people visiting my site every day. This is what they’re interested in: … read on!

I haven’t blogged for the last… uh… months. But I still get readers via Google! So, I won’t take the blog down, but I won’t update it either. I don’t like my blog anyway. Although it has actually always been a good inducement to practice English. (Is this correct? “Inducement”?!) … read on!

Since May, 26th, we have a new program in German Television: The “heute show” on the ZDF. A kind of Late-night-show in which current happenings in national television are parodied or commented in a funny way. Sounds familiar to you? In English “heute show” means “Today Show”. The name seems to be close to “Daily Show” but it isn’t: On the ZDF all news-related programs are labeled with the “heute”-brand (“heute journal”, “heute nacht”, etc… also, the “heute show” isn’t broadcasted daily, but monthly). Yet the format itself seems to be!

Unfortunately the copy wasn’t really successful: They forgot to copy the “Daily Show“‘s quality! It is so totally unfunny and quite dumb! Instead of intelligent, creative, ironic remarks on the absurdity in politics and the media (especially FOX News) they have lame, pseudo-funny lines… come hell or high water. I know that it’s hard to reach the level of Jon Stewart, but this host can’t stand a comparison to him. Yet, I know that it’s also more difficult to create a kind of “Daily Show” in Germany than it is in the USA and the Nazis plays a role indirectly:

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There were many times that I found misspellings, wrong comma placements or other small mistakes on websites while surfing through the web. And I think my blog is no exception (these two sentences already sound incorrect somehow…)! And whenever I find one of those small mistakes I would really like to simply click into the text and relocate the comma or add the missing letter or whatever. Of course this isn’t possible (except for special Web2.0-sites like the Wikipedia). You have to use a contact form, an e-mail, the comments-function or the like if you actually want to call the website-owner’s attention to things like that. But a simple comma replacement isn’t worth the effort and imagine writing an E-mail like

Dear Sir or Madam,

on page xyz of your website is a misspelling in line 123. The word you use there is “mitsake”, yet I think you meant “mistake”. Please correct that.

Sincere regards …

Sounds snobish, does it?! That’s why I’ve written a little JavaScript- and PHP-Code to put my idea into action. See everything in detail after the jump.

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Oh – My – Holy – God! I think my blog is officially dead now! After, uhm, not even 30 posts! But I’ve done a lot of things since March the twentieth, when I published the last post! And I mean things apart from twittering!

In April, for example, I developed a whole new WordPress-Theme called “JavaScript-OperatingSystem-Theme” (“JS-OS-Theme“). I’ve chosen this extraordinary name, because it’s based on JavaScript (and PHP of course, the WordPress-part!) and looks and behaves like an operating system. For all those of you who can speak German: Ihr könnt euch diesen Screencast ansehen, in dem ich das Theme ausführlich vorstelle. For all those of you who can’t: Enjoy the “ö”s and “ü”s in the last sentence and believe that all your stereotypes about Germany are true. Or go directly to trial.me-blogs-it.com – I’ve installed the Theme for experimental purpose and the test-posts are all in English!

I’ve done even more things in May!

Now, in June I began to teach myself Objective-C to write Mac and iPhone-Apps! I’ve already done a dozen of “Hello, World!”-Tutorials, yet I haven’t learned anything at all… But before I begin to bore you with this I rather tell you about the two other projects which ended up in further subdomains:

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Sorry for not having blogged here in the last two weeks. (Twitter is indeed the death of all blogging!) Nevertheless I’ve redesigned the site, tidied and varnished it. But your progress bar won’t be thankful about this: While the old theme weighed around 160KB, the new site weighs almost 300KB! I try to reduce this some time. After the jump: before and after pictures. (very interesting stuff!) … read on!

On Thursday at the CeBit I’ve also been at Microsoft’s booth (’cause Apple wasn’t there). It was indeed one of the most interesting booths with a load of cool exhibits. But one of the things I was mostly interested in was Mircosoft’s Surface. The media had already covered it in their news last year and this year again and everyone talked about the XXL-iPhone, so I wanted to get my hands on it, too! Luckily, a Microsoft-guy was sitting right next to me while I was at the Multitouch-table and was able to explain how all the stuff works. But what he said made me wonder why Microsoft made this thing so damn expensive  (11,000€, with developer licences 30,000€ ~ 40,000$)! Because the technique is so simple and so not groundbreaking at all that you could actually build your own Surface at home! … read on!

After having written about the German blogosphere in general, this post is a ranking of the Ten most relevant German blogs. There are several different ways to compile such a list: There are the German Blogcharts for example which are based on Technorati numbers, or the ranking of the most leading and quoted websites by a German Memetracker or the top Feedburner-subscribed blogs… But I found a website on which all these numbers are put together and the resulting ranking mirrors the German Blogosphere very well. So, here I’ll explain Germany’s Top Ten Blogs. Let’s begin at the back… after the jump: … read on!

I noticed, as I wrote yesterday’s post, that I haven’t explained Germany’s blogosphere, yet. And since half of my visitors are non-Germans I think I have to catch up on this. (And my “The Writing Camp”-post isn’t finished yet…)

The German Blogosphere is of course not as huge as the English/American Blogosphere, simply because the audience is way smaller (there are not as many German-speakers in the world as English-speakers). But apart from this, blogs are not very established in Germany. While in the USA everybody knows about HuffPo and Gawker and the Media also refers to their stories, in Germany Blogs are rather hushed up by Journalists and bloggers are not taken seriously. That’s why many people (and I’m talking about young, internet-active people!) don’t even know what exactly a blog is at all or they believe it’s an (uninteresting) personal internet-diary in which you write about yourself and what you’re doing… So, there’s much potential readership but only little actual readership.

Yet, there’s another “problem” with German Blogs: they aren’t … read on!

Oh – my – Goodness! They’re finally heeeere: Free tickets for this year’s CeBit in Hannover! Post brought it today. Some of you may be bored to read news about the arrival of paper-pieces, but hey – they’re my entrance to the world’s largest computer expo! … Does this sound nerrrrdy? Hope not! At least (as computer’s are already our past and present, they’ll definitely be our very future) I’ll get to know what the future will look like! Wheee, it’s gonna be awesome!
Oh, you might wonder, why the tickets were free, do you? Very good question! I got the tickets on Germany’s … read on!

The post about the German radio presenter who grabbes his colleague’s breast and gets slapped for it was my first actual post. And because this post is tomorrow two weeks old, my whole blog will be two weeks old then. Many things had happened within these two weeks: The tyhtka-series (which isn’t finished yet btw) brought me a load of visitors – more than I’ve ever expected! I thought the first two to three weeks would pass without any visitors at all. Instead, I already have two feed-subscribers (btw: Hallo, you two… whoever you are), have visitors from all around the world and the tyhtka-post about Lukasz “Dr.Luke” Gottwald became the most read post until today with almost a hundred unique visitors! It was this post which also brought me my first … read on!

Although Thomas Gottschalk dropped several bricks this evening (again!), tonight’s “Wetten Dass…?” was not thaaaat bad (but all in all quite unspectacular). As I noticed that every blog writes about Boris Becker announcing his wedding with Lilly Kerssenberg, I added it to the headline of this post, yet I don’t know if there’s anything more to write about than simply the fact that he made this announcement..! And finally I’m not that interested in this wedding. Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson had to eat dog biscuits as a wager. This was jollier than the wedding-announcement! One kid bit into shoes to recognize which kind of shoe it is. This was loonier than the announcement! One guy did a wheelie with his motor cycle while is girlfriend changed the front tire. … This was simply suicidal! See all the screenshots after the jump. … read on!

Actually I wanted to write a post about J.R. Rotem and “The Writing Team”, but it’s kinda much… So, instead here’s another CSS-post.

When you want a picture to change, while the cursor hovers over it, you usually use JavaScript’s <onMouseOver> in this way:

<img src=”picture.jpg” onmouseover=”this.src=’hover-picture.jpg’;” onmouseout=”this.src=’picture.jpg’;” />
 

Although this is the common way, there’s actually another, better and way simpler way to accomplish this hover-effect, which also works when JavaScript is turned off in the browser.  … read on!

Anyone who had visited my site already may have noticed that the menu on the left sidebar is changing every now and then. This has two reasons:
1. I use a Plugin called “Dynamic Menu” which originally had been a Tag Cloud Plugin. I modified it, combined it with another Plugin that I’ve written, so that it puts out a list of the tags with the highest tagvalue. The problem is that this Plugin needs a high amount of posts, tags and visits to work properly. I thought about removing the menu for the beginning, but instead decided to … read on!

Is this awesome or what? After three years of disputes the Berlin senate finally has cleared the way for two pilot projects: In East and in West Berlin antennas are installed on several traffic lights to provide a comprehensive wireless network. Afterwards every Berliner will be able to log onto the internet via WLAN – regardless of whether he’s walking down the street or using the S-Bahn. You know what? I lurrrrrve Berlin! … read on!