My der Havel office
Facebook events alternative
I organise a lot of events (hiking, biking, skating etc) inside Facebook events. I have always used Facebook, because of course everyone on planet earth is on Facebook. I then moved to Berlin and found out that many (most?) Berliners are petrified of Facebook. This puts me in a bind, as Facebook is excellent for […]
My new office
This was my office for today. It was pretty awesome 🙂
Stasi Museum
Michelle and I visited the Stasi Museum in Lichtenberg, Berlin. The museum is based in the old Stasi head offices.
Adjusting my camera
Photo of me adjusting my camera.
Growing old
Uplifting others
Tools menu on meetup.com
Sometimes when I create an event on meetup.com, the tools menu is present, and sometimes not. Any ideas on why this is the case? I really need access to that, so that I can edit the number of members who can attend. I usually want to cap it at about 70’ish, but today I want it […]
Brisetal hike
Some photos from a recent hiking trip near Brisetal in Brandenburg.
Architecture in Vienna
Some beautiful architecture in Vienna, Austria.
Capsicum
This is an old photo I had lost. It was taken in 2008 and sent to my mum, to show how my capsicum plant was so much better than hers. Photo was taken in 8A 245 Cumberland St, Dunedin.
My first solo home!
I’ve entered the world of grown-ups and gotten my first own pad to live in. It feels a little weird having a whole place to myself.
I bought a new camera :)
Out with the “proper” camera and in with the GoPro 🙂 I remember seeing these when they first came out. I was super jealous, as I had attempted to make action cameras out of old camera parts before and the quality was nothing like as good as these fancy new GoPro things. Unfortunately their price […]
Eilat
I travelled with 15 others on a hiking excursion to Jordan. Unfortunately, we had some issues with the police and with visas on crossing the border.
Carrots
What we eat now vs wild carrots. Intensive cultivation over millenia has had way more effect on our food than genetic engineering has so far.
Spargell in Beelitz
For the second year in a row, I have headed to Beelitz just south of Berlin by bike, for the beginning the asparagus (spargell) season.
Co-working at Hermann Schulz
Co-working at Hermann Schulz with the Coding Amigo’s crew.
Oslo Sentrumsløpet
Six months ago, I set a fitness goal of beating my time in the Oslo Sentrumsløpet 10 km race. A combination of events led to me not beating that time.
Schmachtenhagen to Borgsdorf hike
Some photos from a recent hiking trip I went on from Schmachtenhagen to Borgsdorf. The photos were taken on my new Mobius C2 action camera.
Beard progress
People always say “how long does that take to grow” and I really had no idea, so I decided to measure it this time 🙂 18 days and I was sick of it.
Berliner Dom
Some photos from a recent trip to visit the Berlin Dom with Yvette and Michelle.
Hiking trip from Berlin to Potsdam
Here are some photos from a hiking trip I did today from Berlin to Potsdam. The pictures were taken whilst I was testing my new Mobius action camera.
Da beard
Mobius C2
My new Mobius C2 action camera arrived today, so I tested it out with a photo in my living room 🙂
No make sense!?
This doesn’t make sense. The radiation emitted directly from the radio in a mobile phone can not cause a measurable heating effect. The only heating would be caused from radiant heat and conduction from the phone. I swear my phone is almost always stone cold. I think the insulating effect from having my wallet in […]
Stretching whilst hiking
Stretching the heck out of my Achilles tendon before exercise. After a few years of doing this, my Achilles tendon is finally healthy again 🙂
Abseiling in Jordan
The last time I went abseiling was in 1992. That time didn’t go so well, mostly because we had a silly teacher barking orders at us.
Copy cat
People keep learning how to write code. But that’s just silly. Just copy some of my stuff, remove the license and copyright notice and upload it somewhere and pretend it’s yours. Simple really … Here is the source code, which you can compare to my Disable Emoji’s plugin code. They’re basically the same 😛 <?php […]
Random question of the day
How would I go about setting up an intranet, which I could broadcast via WiFi from my laptop? I’d like to sit on planes, trains etc. and broadcast a free WiFi signal which oaded nothing more than a website on my local server. That way I could run a little chat app and chit-chat with […]
Fastest home internet so far
Science Center Berlin
Fun day out at the Science Center Berlin, for an exhibit about human mobility.
Reichstag
The Reichstag in Berlin, the current home of the Bundestag (German parliament). The building was built in 1894.
Erpetal hike
I went on a beautiful hike from a small place called Erpetal in Brandenburg.
Berlin festival of lights
The Berlin Festival of Lights is an annual event in which various monuments are lit up with spectacular light displays.
Empathy
Wannsee loop hike
I organised a hike for the Berlin Hikers meetup group. A ton of people came along 🙂
Hamster brain
Things just pop into my head man, they’re poppin, ya know like the Hamsters, the usually the hamsters spinning but the hamsters dead, right now the hamster just had a viagra, that mother fuckers runnin’ right. – Marc Lobliner 2015
Midnight bike ride to Müggelturm
A big bunch of us headed for a midnight bike ride to Müggelturm, a strange communist era viewing tower on the south eastern edge of Berlin.
Religion
Peanutized
Make your own via peanutizeme.com.
Facebook is awesome sometimes
I found out that there was an earthquake in Chile just now, when Facebook notified me that a friend was safe. Facebook is awesome sometimes 🙂
Herman Schulz
Hovedøya ruins
My friend Izabella and I headed to Hovedøya island in Oslo fiord during the summer to see the ruins of the Hovedøya Abbey, a Cistercian monastery.
Vegan döner
This vegan döner was damned tasty, despite the addition of some weird meat substitute to it.
Giraffe ransom
Cough up the ransom money, or the giraffe gets it!
Amusing myself with my new router
Camping at Liepnitzsee
We chose the hottest weekend of the year to go on a bike camping trip to Liepnitzsee, a small lake north of Berlin.
Hiking in Grünewald
I went for a beautiful sunny day of hiking in Grünewald, a small forest within the Berlin city limits. The beautiful sun soon paved way for a beautiful torrential downpour ;
Beetroot juice
I heard that beetroot juice was ridiculously healthy. It sounded nasty, but people claimed it tasted great, so I decided to buy some. It does not task great; it tastes nasty! In an attempt to improve the vile taste, I added a crap-ton of vanilla flavoured whey powder and a bunch of strawberries. It’s now […]
My new pocket knife :)
I couldn’t find an immediate use for my new Swiss army knife, so I bought a bottle of wine as an excuse to use the cork opener 🙂