How close can a car being parked in parallel without touching the car in
front of and behind? How much distance in between did you have when
doing so? 1 meter, 80cm, 60cm or even closer? Well forget about these
“records”. The chinese Han Yu only needed 15cm to park his car.

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Today I thought, I’d clean up my keyboard as there was dust under almost all
of my keys. I hate dirty keyboards, you know. While haggling out the space
key to open a large gap to fork out the dust, I noticed, that the “leading track”
for the metal bracer broke on the right. Typing a lumpy space key is no fun!

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The Euro is not yet about to come to a rest as it seems. Now Spain has shown
signs that their biggest bank “Bankia” is in need of approximately 20 billion
Euros to haul all the desolate hypothecary credits it has issued in the past.
On the other hand: Thousands of angry “home owners” who will loose home.

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What a bitter pill to swallow for Mark Zuckerberg: His company has lost one
quarter of it’s value in only one week. The stock is currently dealt at
approx 29 USD per share. which is only 73% of the initial value. The stock
share has been dealt at 38 USD when being issued last week. It was historic.

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iPhone-thefts are as old as the iPhone itself. Steve Job’s breakthrough on the
smartphone market introduced a smartphone with touchscreen and arose
the other manufacturers to issue their new gadgets with touchscreen also.
With the release of iCloud however, iPhone theft got more difficult for thieves.

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It seems as if Stuxnet is not the only dangerous computer virus out there. This
little fella may spy on your privacy in a big way. It’s name: Flame. As Kaspersky
stated, this virus can enable logging of your chats and audiosessiony with ease.
This way, a possible attacker may record ALL of your activities unnoticed.

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Garage for WHAT you may ask? Yes, you read right. As there’s an official cell
phone prohibition in public schools of New York, pupils can store their cellphone
in one of the mobile storage units which stay at a certain spot when the first
cellphone is handed in. Although the controls at the school gates are more hard…

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Maybe it sounds funny when you go to a wash saloon and read a sign, saying
“Junior Wash – $2.95” – Especially when you have your kid with you. But I
don’t think it’s a wise idea to put the kid into the washing machine just for a
joke. Alone because the machine is auto-starting when you close the door.

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It seems as if the troubles around Diablo III aren’t going to stop. Have recent
logon problems already gone for good, there’s the next issue upcoming. More
and more people are reporting their skilled and hard-played characters to be
stripped down (=their account being hacked) without having any clue, why!

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This question is easily answered: You don’t know what you do and how things
turn into weapons if improperly used. In Singapore a taxi driver and a taxi
user have died in a horrible but also spectacular crash. The driver, a young
rich chinesse guy totaled his rare Ferrari 599 GT… and lost his life too!

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As you may have noticed already, I am also blogging about great technical
achievements. The one I am posting about right now is one of such. In this
case an old building at Zurich main station has to be moved by 60 metres to
make room for more tracks to the main station. This timelapse shows the…

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Tokio now has the second biggest tower in the world! The Sky Tree which
opened its Gates to the public has a total height of 634 metres. However the
observation decks aren’t the highest yet. At 300 and 400m the Sky Tree has
its observation decks. The Toronto CN Tower has them at 357 and 447m!

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So finally facebook is at the NYSE and thus available for stock marketing.
While the shares have been dealt for 43USD  at the beginning, the shares
later fell back to their issue price of 38USD. So no exploding start for
Marc Zuckerberg and his social network, whose stock start should be great.

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After several deaths and frustrating champion mob groups, I decided to join
a random group in order to do Diablo. Even with L4 this foe is a real hard nut
to crack. You’ll need lots of tactics to beat him. So if you’re less than L36,
don’t even think about facing Diablo! You won’t survive this challenge!

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Act III was really challenging. Died several times due to the big number of
mobs rusing towards me. However the Boss was quite easy to slay. Liked the
tower levels where you fight your way towards the boss. The big tortured
creatures… just scaring. The atmosphere: demonic and mystic!

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So the game develops an interesting taste when you move along with friends
decimating the numerous foes that follow you and stop you from reaching
Diablo. But it’s not as easy as usual. The foes get stronger with each party
member that joins your game. So no more standalone-bashing.

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So there we are: Act II – Into the desert. Gosh, how I remember my ways
from Lut Gholein back and forth. Memories… – The Skeleton King was not as
difficult as the Butcher who slained a good friend of mine and me… several
times. Can be annoying especially when you take the boss down to 10% of life.

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So… the first quests have been played and one thing to say: It’s a nice scenery
to run through and the fights are sort of… challenging. Especially when you
meet some champions which have ways more HP and additional enchants
that make them more resistent against you or even grill your char in no time!

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Sanctuaria is open to everybody. Since midnight (european time) you can
officially log on to the game server and play Diablo III. Since yesterday 5pm
the installer no longer refused to install. The installation of the game took a
mere 30 minutes on a classic notebook and 10 minutes on a highend system.

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It seems as if WhatsApp Has also attracted the attention of hackers. An
Android App called WhatsApp Sniffer allows tapping of conversations
between users on the same network as the hacker is on with his device.
Google has already put down the App from the AppMarket.

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When it comes to Siri, you remember the iPhone 4S introducing this feature.
You can ask Siri any question and most of them are adequately answered.
The question about “Will you marry me” for example is being answered with
“Sorry, but my Terms of use do not cover marriage”.

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Seems as if the Unthinkable gets closer and closer for more and more star
economists. Greece is about to loose the Euro as currency and going back to
the drachm. Seems as if all effort to avoid the expulsion of Greece from the
european currency union has failed.

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Seems as if the german BKA (Federal Criminal Police Office) still has no tool
to tap the encrypted VoIP lines or EMail traffic of Suspects. The trojan horse
“Staatstrojaner” still does not comply with current law specifications and
thus is illegal to use on any private computer yet!

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This is a wonderful example why you shouldn’t use automated patterns to
generate e-mail adresses for example. In this case, a german company has
faced severe problems and moch more worse: The email system there seems
not to accept any changes to that generated addresss…

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I have already posted some videos, how dangerous driving in Russia can be.
This video is no exception and goes one step further. I guess You all know the
zipper scheme when you are on a two-lane intersection. slow down your car,
let the car next to you slip in between. But what happens if you don”t give in?

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I already mentionned, that I like Timelapse videos. This time, it’s from the
construction site of the Freedom Tower in New York where a camera has
recorded pictures of the construction over 8 years. They are now finally put
together into a 2 minutes long timelapse video. The result is amazing!

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What almost sounds impossible, seems true right now. The usually so-secure
Mac OS X seems to have a big security hole allowing hacers to spy on passwords.
It seems as if FileVault has a Debug option that allows writing unencrypted
passwords to FileVault files to the log file. This debug option has been…

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So that’s it! Time to take the train back to Bern, time to get back to work and time
to wait another 365 days to celebrate with Pianoman. Now it’s time to face the
“enemy”, called Deutsche Bahn, again and hopefully coming home in time. But I
am confident that everything will go well as this train is operated by the SBB…

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So… Now Pianoman has hit the 31st bday. Time to celebrate his special day and
enjox the other people joining us. For this reason there won’t be anything posted
today as my status will probably go from plain ordinary to ordinary drunken.
Expect serious updates on Monday again! PARTYTIME!!! YEAH!

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…or: An instruction how to learn to hate the service of Deutsche Bahn. It all
began with a planned trip to Munich from Bern. No problem. Just take the
14:02 train from Bern to Zurich HB and then switch trains to Munich Central
station. 5h42m travel time and less hassle with train switching… WRONG!

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This is amazing. While browsing youtube in my lunch break I stumbled upon
this really nice video. While here one is securing his bike with a heavy lock,
the chinese people seem to use much more “natural” ressources to protect
their transportation device. The follwoing video is self-explaining! Have fun!

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So finally I decided to updated my rig with a SSD. The reason? Well, although
my rig fired up in under one minute, I thought: Hey, can I give it some more
power? So the SSD was the next object to put on my wishlist. But wait, there
was something when I tried to give my netbook an update…

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