As some of you might know I got a new job a couple of weeks ago. Its a KTP a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, in theory a pretty nifty idea. You take a bunch of academics and put them into industry projects. Then you give them some inside on management and let them transport the bleeding edge research in a commercial environment. As I said sounds nice.

And to make all the materials ‘accessible’ everything is stored in the cloud. But this cloud is called Sharepoint, MS Sharepoint 2003.

And what happens when I was trying to login:

Please note: The KTP Portal has been developed using MS Sharepoint 2003 and in order for users to make use of all available features please use Internet Explorer version 6 or 7, and not Firefox or Safari. The portal does not currently support Apple Macintosh users.

WTF. I think it is ridiculous that a government funded project is forcing participants to use a certain product when there are alternatives that do not require anything and are free by the way. I was directly all over it and I bed I am the first who has the problem. And nobody will give a shit because we all know:

Never touch a running system

Please guys redo your course work on requirement engineering and find out if you have considered all your potential usergroups. Hint MS windows is not the only operating system.

Why sharepoint, why??

Podcasts

I am a hardcore podcast listener and you know that I am sometimes also write some more or less interesting blog entries. I would love the capability to quote sections of certain podcasts to comment on them or to use them as a sources for some statements. But this is a real pain at the moment. You have to write down what the time was of the comment, import the podcast in garageband or any other audio editor at hand, make new file out of it, tag it, upload it and integrate it in you blog post. That means you will not do it, never, ever.

So what I want is a possibility to just jump back a couple of seconds, set a start marker, wait to the end of the quote press again to set an end marker, get the waveform displayed so that i can adjust the waveform by pinching it into the boundaries, than get a text field/Headline field write my short blog entry and than upload it directly from there or if I don’t have a proper connection, let iTunes upload it to my blog while syncing.

Is that asked to much?

I am just sitting in the bus and I want internet. This is ridiculous I am so used to have internet on my iphone that I find it strange not to have it on my laptop. In 2008 we could have internet everywhere but due to greedy Telcos we are still stuck in the twentieth century. I wish that they are going to realise better sooner than later that offering mobile internet to affordable flat rate prices will generate more money than trying to charge people per minute.
And now that I am ranting about Telcos get a proper European system. I want use my cellphone everywhere in Europe without worrying about roaming charges. The most companies are in all European countries anyway. So fuck it with the “but I is complicated so we have to charge you huge

Cheers
J

I am in Greenwich, London at the moment at the ESTC2008 (Electronics and System-Integration Technology conference). And I am going to enjoy three day of electrical engineering geekery at it’s finest.
I am starting now with a session on “Electronics Integration for Healthcare: Materials and Processes”by James Lee.
The first talk is on “Versatile low cost wafer-level packaging enabled by powderblasting“.

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Just had a brilliant error message while trying to connect to the app store over wifi. And I have no idea what to do with it.

Well I just installed wordpress for iPhone and I already love it. Great work
Thanks
Jens

Wir sind umgezogen. Wir haben uns ein neues Nest in Edinburgh gesucht also falls Ihr mich nicht mehr findeny könnt –> Mail.

Cheers
Jens

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After more than twenty year I was able to obtain the fist 38! episodes of my second most beloved toy cartoon series from the 80s (and this for £10). M.a.s.k. the Mobile Armored Strike Kommand was a secret organisation financed by an super rich U.S. entrepreneur who was fighting an bunch of rockers and punks under the command of an ex military. And what was is that a young man in it one digit years needed to be sure that he was seeing one of the original story, the one man kind was telling since its origin. Of course transforming vehicles and some bad ass mask that can shoot fire, see trough walls and let you fly.

Could it be any better?!

No it can not or better not at this time, not for me (GIANT ROBOT EXCLUDED). But today everything look a bit different. The dialogues a silly, the tech talk is completely absurd and to my horror also in a bad quality. Nevertheless I will watch them all (one by one, more is not possible) and look out for the pearl. Or was I really such a moron, well lets not talk about that. I would have bought. A few things that are really pissing me of are the carelessness which was visible in the whole presentation of the DVD Box, no booklet, no original artwork on the box, no special feature and was I pointed out before the digitising of the material was done by an absolute numbskull.

Well lets see if I can watch them all.

jens

Holy Crap,

After ten month I was able to convince our landlord/letting agency to fix our bath. It was just possible by using financial force (refused to pay the full rent). Well, tomorrow the plumber will start to take the tiles from the wall. The schedule says that the works will be finished on Friday. That’s never gonna work.

Wish me luck

Jens

I wanted blog directly from my trip to Nice last week, but the Côte d’azur is from an IT point of view third world. But I did a few articles and going to release them soon.

Thanks

Jens