We all know it from home sweet home. We’re doing our
free time stuff and mum or dad call us to do chores or
take medicine or demand something else we’re not
comfortable with at the very moment.

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Just recently a report was stating that there’s a shortage
of about 310.000 IT specialists for jobs in Germany. To
cover that shortage, Angela Merkel however decided to
alter the Specialists-Immigration-Law.

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When planes transport planes’ parts…
One of the biggest challenges was to transport large
plane parts from one facility to the next. Earlier they
were transported by cargo ships. Unitl now…

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14 years have passed and World of Warcraft still can make
us spend several hours hunting monsters and clearing
dungeons. With the newest Addon beingg released soon,
also the newest Patch has already been rolled out.

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Speeding is a common problem everywhere. Especially
owners of luxury cars like to defy these as their cars can
easily reach 200km/h, let alone even 300km/h. Noemi
Demeter has also defied a speed limit in a tunnel.

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It’s always a spectacle to see nature live. Especially when
danger is around the corner. As essential these elements
are for our life, they can quickly take the very same from
us if they unleash the full power on us.

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Ever wondered how drones would be able to fly through
curved 3D tunnels without tilting and shifting? Well, the
answer is a drone that can bend itself according to the
given surrounding using proximity sensors.

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4:2 – France has beat Croatia after 90 minutes!
So after 32 exciting World cup days, France has
finally beat Croatia in an exciting and thrilling
final match. Congratulations, France!

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HDMI – A common interface that rules home cinema
equipment for about 15 years now. While VGA with it’s
analogue signal was rather unreliable and DVI couldn’t
get past certain resolutions, HDMI made it’s way.

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One should think that pilots of an airplane are aware of certain
permissins on flight duty. However the co-pilot of a chinese
airline thought that an e-cigarette couldn’t do anything bad.
Wrong! After he started smoking, the plane went into alert mode.

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The migration of all video files has finally been finished.
So from now on you will only find MP4 videos on this blog
The reason for the change was the fact that Adobe has
announced to drop support for Adobe Flash in 2020.

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A lion is indeed a big animal you’d better not stand in way of
especially not if the lion is hungry. The team of Brave Wildlife
has tranquilized lions in order to measure their growth and
implant a tracker to monitor their growth and life in the wild.

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Ever wondered, what it would sound like if you play Super Mario Bros.
themes and sounds on a piano? An artist tried the exact thing and it
sounds somewhat awesome. Okay, when it comes to multitrack sound
then the player fails (you simply can’t merge defferent sounds!)

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Many people still want Flash Video on their homepages, however the
usability has experienced a severe drawback in the last years whereas
security issues with the Flash player plugin for several browsers have
been the main reason to move on to a new format.

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Well, it seems as if Intel faces new challenges. As of yesterday
Apple has announced that it won’t use Intel’s 5G modems in
it’s Apple product portfolio in 2020. So Intel is now reducing
production capacity significantly as other brands do not…

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While the current price plan is 13.99 US$ / 19.90 CHF
for the premium package, Netflix is already testing a
new price plan that will have 4 different stages.
The basic plan will be SD-only quality.

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As if nuclear power plants wouldn’t be a safety problem in
general, it has been found out that Tihange in Belgium has
another flaws in their housing structure. That’s the building
that carries the core. A failure of the building would be fatal!

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What happens if you let molten salt flow into cold
water? This has been tested by two young men in
their backyard. They poured different molten salts
into a bassin with cold water. Watch for yourself!

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Ever wondered about what the lowest temperature on
Earth can be? It seems as if AGU (Advancing Earth and
Space Science) has found the answer to that question!
While we know that 1984 the lowest temperature was…

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…or in german joked “Pausenaugust-Schach”. Roughly translated to: How to
play chess and build up constellations on the chessboard while knowing the
AI already being f***ed up! In this case, my goal was to embrace the king with
queens and checkmate the AI (8 queens at least needed…) and it IS difficult!

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As you might have noticed, there are more blog entries
coming up in short period of time. At first I had to etch
out some kinks with the underlaying blog system. But
now most of the kinks are gone. Ther will be some…

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If rich guys’ cars get involved into crashes, this can
become quite expensive. In this case the driver seems
to have underestimated the power of a McLaren 720S.
Totalling an Audi R8 it’s not only his own 300K US$…

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Just few days after AMD has announced the release of
the new Threadripper beast, Intel seems to answer that
by unveiling first specs of the new upcoming i9 flagship.
With 8 cores/16 threads it is said to be as fast as the…

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If you thought, SD memory cards have already
reached their technical maximum specification,
think again. Today the SD Association has
announced the next level SD card generation!

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WordPress amazes me more and more the newer the
releases become. While security reasons are important
to perform updates, the added new features can become
a real nuisance.

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If you thought, you’re safe to talk when around
on the streets, think again. According to a company
called WiSpear, it is now possible to hack your
smartphone from 500 to 1000m using a van.

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AMD and Intel are on the racetrack again. Who will
offer the fastest CPU for the fairest price out there?
It seems as if AMD is tackling Intel once more by
releasing a new beast to the public in near future…

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Incredible! Garfield has turned 40 years old on June 19th, 2018.
This gives that comic cat probably the record of the longest running
cartoon series. Of course Time has changed and so has the style of
Garfield…

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I have done the update on the microsite for Rendezvous Bern
already to match with the 2017 lightshow. The videos are in
conversion already and should be online in the upcoming days.
Please have patience as video conversion takes some time…

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So the new Event is now officially scheduled for
September 12th, 2017. What’s clear is that we will
see a new iphone and a new apple Watch (version).
There’s also a new version of MacOS and iOS to be presented…

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…what’s going on here. Yes, it has become quiet in the
last months here. Lots of work to do and still no time at
home to perform all the tasks I want to apply on this blog.
And then all these updates… doesn’t make things easier!

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It’s time, to bring the embedded video files up to code again.
As FLV seems not to be well-embeddable these days, I decided
to re-encode all previously embedded files to MP4 and have them
played back with a more modern MP4 video player based upon HTML5.

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