There are lots of crazy news to read these days. But when it comes to absurd
things (things, normal people won’t do, usually!) then it makes me think what
could have moved person XY to do such a silly thing. In this news the
person has died shitting between platform and train and fell into the track.

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Did the weather in the past weeks not look like wintertime (don’t tell me that
you consider 15 degrees celsius winterlike!) it is finally snowing again down
to 500 metres above sea level (the height level Bern is). But for how long will
the snow last and how long is the timespan until the next thaw time?

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Just as the first quadcore devices hit stores for everyone, Samsung’s plans
leaked that the new Samsung Galaxy S4 could be one of the first mobile
devices equipped with an 8-core CPU. Natively we speak of two 4-core CPUs
as octocore SoCs are not yet available or designed to a working state.

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It seems that the US patent system still leaves some room for companies
whose only purpose is to start lawsuits against global players for violating
almost-expiring lawsuits which could have once qualified for big cash time.
One of these is Steelhead Licensing LLC, a company just funded few days ago.

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Now tests are ongoing on how the plugin is performing. As there are several
video formats being used in the blog, not every plugin can be used. Also the
smart tags are of essential importance as the video smart tag is often used
and causing problems with other plugins.

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Faith ain’t on my side when it comes to finding the right video embed plugin.
There have several plugins being tested. the result is either interference with
other plugins or the video playback isn’t working as intended. So the search
will go on until I find the right plugin for this blog.

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While the search for a good plugin for video playback is still ongoing, the first
problems are already coming up. Most plugins still keep interfering with
other plugins, making it a real challenge to find a good video embedding
plugin. It’ll still take some time until all will work as intended.

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Well… what a great party yesterday. But I am still extremely tired as I didn’t
get much sleep. So the first thing to do in the new year: Geting some sleep!
Hope you all had a great party as well. Enjoy your free days as I do and see
you soon again here.

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To all fellow readers of my blog: All the best for the new year and may all your
plans and tasks fulfill. Have a nice celebration and nice fireworks to gaze at.
We’ll see each other in 2013 then. Have you already thought about some
things to do in the new year? If not, you’ll still have 6 more hours to do so!

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Although the calendar says that we’re midst in Winter, the temperature
doesn’t make one feel like so. While in some places of Germany, Austria
and Switzerland the temperatures hit the 20-degrees-celsius-mark, the
question about the missing winter is just rectified.

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Time is a valuable good if you once are in need of having more of it. So it
occurs to me right now. I’ll keep my words short as I am in a real hurry and
stress and I hope your first christmas day is as quiet and relaxing as Christ-
mas Eve yesterday was. Wish you the very best.

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Christmas time, the most happy time for most of us and the time where
silence embraces us. Thinking about the rare momentes we spend with our
beloved ones. Today I keep my post short as I am still not feeling well and
also have to work. However I take some time to post now.

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It seems as if I drag sickness like a magnet does metal. However it seems as
if I got the sniffels and thus ffeling not very well. hopefully my christmas time
won’t be all like that. but there’s something else just around the corner and I
fear the worst upcoming. However: Merry christmas to everyone!

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Everywhere you look, you see the theories about the world’s end to come up
today. Some scientific websites also claim that there were mayan drawings
discovered that prophesy the world’s end at the very day today. But what
makes all these people so sure, that the world is going to end today? Why?

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So X-mas is around and the weather is freaking out. The actual temperatures
don’t allow any imagination of a white christmas. While there were 30 centi-
metres of snow laying just two weeks ago, all the snow has now gone and the
green blanket shows up again. Not quite that what I consider a white x-mas.

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It seems as if the USA will never come to peace when it comes to
killing frenzies. In Newtown, Connecticut, a mid-twenty years aged spree
killer ended the life of more than 25 people at Sandy-Hook Elementary..
The reason why he decided to do so. No one knows for sure.

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At least for this century. Because there’s no 13.13.2013! – But why is this date
so special? Many people argue that such palindrome dates are guranteed to
bring luck to special events being done at such dates: Marriages, birthdays,
even common events from our everyday life are said to be better.

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Bruno Bozetto has made a cartoon showing the evolution of our world. Using
“Bolero di Ravel” as the background music gives it a real classy touch. Since
this video is dated 1976, this is now 36 years old but it still has it’s charme.
So enjoy watching “Allegro non troppo – Boléro di Ravel”

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Have irisses with pictures long been a dream vision in movies, it now
seems that this is no longer Science-Fiction. The Centre of Microsystems has
developed a contact lens with a flexible LC display that is capable of display-
ing images. However the image is only viewable forothers, not the wearer.

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The winter is finally arriving in Europe, too. While signs two days ago pointed
to a green christmas time, it seems now as if the nature’s white blanket is most
likely to stay. As one of those people who like the four seasons, I am pleased
to see that weather’s like what it should be in December.

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Voyager 1 has been launched On September 5th, 1977 into space with the
mission to discover what’s behind the lines of the solar system as we know it
and as it could have been explored with the telescopes that time. 25 years
later Voyager 1 is now reaching the interstellar space.

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Things could not be worse between Germany and Switzerland. The object of
desire: Money! Germany wants of it… lots of it and from Switzerland. As
Germany suspects Switzerland of holding lots of financial ressources from
german citizen who don’t declare their money to the Finance departement.

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Usually, people never seem to agree when it comes to size. On smartphones
the curent trend is: the bigger, the better! usually it was, the smaller, the
better. Compare a Nokia 6100 (combined with its battery, it weighs only 76
grams and measures 102 x 44 x 13.5 mm.) and an actual Galaxy Note II.

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Often it is read that companies have lost lots of money due to illegal copies.
Then there’s the mobile market that also takes it’s share. Finally it’s the copy
protection mechanisms that rob most games their reputation, Dilemmas as
Assassins Creed which failed to start up are only one of the many cases.

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Supercomputer are mostly one’s nation to show, we can compute numbers
as fast as possible. While last year, the fastest supercomputer was situated
in Asia, it is now again situated in the USA. The Oak Ridge National
Laboratory has built up and finally activated the fastest supercomputer.

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Even these days, multi-device homepages are a bit of a hassle and so I found
out that most of my video posts are not properly viewable on mobile phones
For instance we have the iPhone which seems to drop out on the video tags
trying to open the player.swf instead. also the iPhone can’t deal with FLV.

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Bern is undergoing a rapid change when it comes to the club scene.
Clubs close, but also there are new ones opening. One of the new
stars in Bern is the Bronx Bar which is opening doors today. A
modern club with modern interior is awaiting you.

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As already posted last year, Starlight Events has again taken the idea to make
the Bundeshaus Bern a giant screen. This year’s show deals with the topic
technics, science, lifestyle of Switzerland. An impressive lightshow is ahead of
you. This show is 22 minutes long. Simply said: Fascinating and enchanting!

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Someting that can be considered quite rare these days is, when snow comes
down in October. Much rarer when the amount of snow hits 15cm within one
night. Exactly this has happened this night. Now one could say: “Nothing
special, happens often at my place” – But is yours only 550m above sea level?

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Sometimes, 24/7 standby service can really drain your power. Hopefully, the
worst time is over and probably the weekend does not impact so much on me!
in the meantime my blog’s still offline, as there is still some problem to process
a lousy transaction… *Annoyed Grunt*

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The times change, as it does in the internet (speeds, availability) and also TV.
While many cable service providers have a crypted basic cableTV service or
at least only viewable if you own hardware from the certain provider, here
in switzerland, the UPC cablecom is going to change things now.

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You can’t tell for sure what this truck driver has thought. But maybe he
thought, he was playing “Need for Speed – Most Wanted” or GTA… But
speeding with such high velocity into such a harsh turn is for sure not a
good idea, especially when your vehicle is a truck and not a Laborghini.

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