Calender

20:31 mareku 0 Comments

The youth of the Berlin area of Marzahn-Hellerdorf want to promote their living area. They thought a nude calender would do the trick. If only we weren't so distracted from the lovely mill by something else... ;-)

Best Picture

11:35 mareku 0 Comments

The Dutch photographer Laurens Aaij has won best (domestic news) picture with his image of the horses that were stuck last year on a piece of land in Marum. The lighting and composition is excellent. I wouldn't know what to enhance with Photoshop - or could it be that it is already photoshoped? (maybe the white horse was brown to begin with...)

Google browser sync

10:32 mareku 0 Comments

Although I was moaning about google's gmail not being able to have two windows at the same time. The guys of google are helping me to sync between home and work in an other way: the Google browser sync option in firefox. It works brilliantly and all of my search, cookies and bookmarks are always in sync.
As with all services of Google it is still in BETA. (everything seems to be BETA nowadays, but that's an other story)

Gmail Lockdown

10:27 mareku 1 Comments

My Gmail account got locked down a couple of times in the past week. The reason given provided no clue as to what I might be guilty of. Since I use Gmail more and more as my primary account, getting it locked down is not a nice thing, to say the least... I wrote to the e-mail address given asking for the reasons. As usual I got the standard reply which asked me to write back if anything in a list of no-no’s was applicable to me. :-(
It looks like Gmail will lock your account if it is accessed at the same time from two different places. The problem is that I access Gmail from work and home, and as I reboot the computer at work only once a month at best and at home maybe ones a year, Gmail is always open.
But, the problem I feel is with Gmail itself. It automatically refreshes every two minutes. Users should atleast have the option to switch the two minute page refresh off.
The message that was displayed when the account was locked said upto 24 hours, but it was unlocked within a few minutes.

Google image labeler

11:16 mareku 0 Comments

Google has a new game (and a new beta service...) It is called Google image labeler and what it does is to let you tag manually images they have found on the internet. So while playing this game, their database is getting richer and richer. :-)
You play with at random somebody else online. If your tag and the other persons tag match, you get points.
As you can imagine I labeled the pictures above (courtesy from my friends from the naked rugby league) with the tags, beach, sea, tattoo and.. uh.. ;-)

Wallendorf

20:34 mareku 0 Comments

The Wallendorf meissen factory is centuries old but still they are up to date. They just introduces special figurines fro gay marriages...
I have not find a place (online) where you can buy them though.