geek imparts experiences

Hiya my fellow blog readers, it’s been a while since my last post. Today, I would like to share again some nice links with you and I will start with some pretty fascinating talks of the 26C3 (Chaos Communication Congress ) in Berlin. There is firstly the talk about liquid democracy, a very interesting talk [...]

If there is somebody who still thinks it is not or just a bit snowing in UK should see the pictures following, to be proven wrong!

Hi everyone, I wish all of you a Merry Christmas in the circle of the family and loved ones! In preperation for the celebration here a impression from a Christmas concert in my city of the last year!

Two weeks ago we did a hike in the countryside of the Peak Ditrict, southeast of Manchester. Such a weekend trip into the impressive and rough nature of England with it’s fresh air and chilly temperature is a welcome change to the crowded, noisy and bustling city on the weekdays. It was recreative as well [...]

At the 17th September started the orientation program at the University of Manchester. This introductory lectures were held to supported the new international students with some information to the registration process and the other duties.
Among the orientation program the International Society offered a wide range of activities, like city coach tours and many occasions to [...]

Yesterday on Friday the 12th September, I went with some of my new colleagues into the wonderful Snowdonia National Park in Wales. As you can see on the map we were driving along the motorway at the coast, where we could see a bit of the seaside. As we reached our destination, the lake Llyn Cowlyd [...]

In this category I will periodically post a collection of links I find on my way through the web. First one I want to share with you is the not new idea, but great solution of James Dyson with the AllSocket Concept for cleaning up the wire mess.

The 2nd one is a futuristic concept of [...]

If you want to create simple flash animations like my one here, take a look on the site of the simple Java open source software Draw SWF.

I talk about augmented reality, with this technique the real world can be enriched through virtual objects blended in real time into the camera stream of the real world. This makes so many things possible for instance shopping with information about the products, navigation with information about the area or new kinds of games and [...]