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Today i was visiting the Technical Museum of Vienna and while standing in front of favourite exhibit - the Mailüfterl which is
the first european full transistorized computer - i thought it would be cool to see some code running on this machine.

back home i googled a bit and - tata - someone has written a emulator of the mailüfterl!

note: the image is from Wikipedia and was shot by Florian Staudacher and was licenced under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

a while ago i made some wooden bots while waiting for a download. My family really liked them - so they got our xmas-tree decoration this year :-)

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i wrote a processing sketch to visualize and record sessions on a training bike. To calculate the rotation-speed of my training bike i hooked up 2 reed-switches to my arduino and taped them to my training bike. Than i sticked a rare earth magnet on each pedal.

the processing sketch draws a small figure on a bike which is animated at the same speed as the bike.

the sketch also records the timestamps to a log file for later analysis.

I just made a processing sketch using my ical4p library. The programm draws a flower for every event in a given ical-file. The more events the calender has, the more beautifull the flower-garden is :-)

i have written a small wrapper around ical4j written by Ben Fortuna. This allows to write processing sketches, that visualize data from ical files.

i included a small example in the lib showing how to draw a timeline based on an ical file.

i also have set up a project-page for it. The libray is released under the LGPL.

out of couriousity i took the access.log from my blog for the last 5 days, extracted the ip-adresses and looked up the countries my readers come from using hostip.info

so here is a list ordered by count of uniqe ip-adresses. (i even have readers from andorra! more than from swizerland and austria together!)

This time i catched a monster that was trying to hide from me in a lavalamp. but - HAHA - a experienced monster collector like me can not be tricked that easy! so beware you monsters!

the photo is a bit ugly this time - i made it using my mobilephone

I'm using DAViCal for syncing the calendars between my computers. Recently events addend in one calendar didn't show up in the other one - not so funny.

after some googleling i found this bugreport and updated version to 0.9.6.2

now everything is in sync again.

Yesterday guidelines for developing a processing library have been published including a template for eclipse. Since i don't use eclipse i wrote a small template myselft using ant. So all the vim/TextMate/UltraEdit/whatever-users out there who want to make cool processing libraries check out my template