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Merry Xmas! Hope you all got through these days without big family-desasters :) In my case all went smoothly, in fact we battled each other only on my mum’s brand-new super-duper Kicker (in english its “Foosball” – strange translation…). Hm, perhaps I should return home again ;) By the way: This may be your 25th last christmas. The NASA Near Earth Object Program discovered “2004 MN4”, which has a 1/62-chance of hitting the earth on in 2029 (on a Friday 13th!). Considering that chances of being hit by lightning are somewhat close to 1/1000000, this is really frightening. But hey, who knows if we all survive four more years of George W. Bush… Finally on this “christmas-post”: A (german) proof why Santa does not exist. Laughed my ass off g. UPDATE: Some other guys try to prove that Santa does exist. The heat-problem is defeated by an ion-shield, the time-problem by traveling in 11 dimensions. One guy theorizes, that Santa is the cause for global warming by melting off the Northpole, and children should be more nasty so Santa has less work (=less global warming) – lol.

Whohooo, I’ve finally got a working commenting-system for my weblog! It wasn’t easy, and still isn’t perfect, but hey – you can type in letters which somehow appear on my webpage…good start. Some boring details: Typo3-wise this is a merge of tt_news and chc_forum, a rather crazy combination (putting up a whole forum-system for simple comments), and needed lots of template-rewriting (Thanks to Rupert Germann for his excellent extension). Feel free to comment on new posts, and if you still remember something on old posts – go ahead, I’m happy about every comment :)

...this compilation really got onto my iTunes-Hotlist: “Jay-Z vs. The Beatles – The Grey Album” – a unofficial bootleg-album by DJ Dangermouse. You may download it at textz.com, although it’s officially banned by EMI – but aren’t the best things in life for free? :) There’s also a background-feature at WIRED Magazine. Encore!

One of my definitive nominees is: “I would RTFM if there was as FM to FR” over at designbyfire. 100% ACK! I should write an article about Typo3, but just the other way round: “I would RTFM if there wasn’t 10.000 FMs to FR” g.

Look ma, I’m in the FAZ! At least in teeny tiny letters… FAZ means “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, one of Germany’s biggest daily papers. The opensource-community uses this popularity by placing a full-page-ad in tomorrows edition about Firefox. Through donations on firefox-kommt.de of 10-40EUR per individual the team brought up about 50.000EUR with 2403 donators – enough for one page of FAZ. Hopefully my donation helped to spread the word – and convince a broad audience that there is a live beyond the dark side ;) In case you think that this is a very stupid reason to donate money to – I will also donate for “SOS Kinderdorf” this year to keep my good concience g OK, thats it for today…whew, what a media-appearance – I’m a celebrity ;)

I’m on telly! This afternoon I was sitting unsuspectingly in our university-mensa when a TV-team approached our group. Normally I’m professional at hiding myself from attention, but this time Emerson shouted “Here, take Ingo!” (Todo: Come up with some payback for Emerson g*). So I said my twopence about the mensa-situation (“1500 students vs. 200 chairs”), and was aired this evening on HR, a local tv-channel (see vid). Hm, ok – I’ve got another 9:40 minutes of fame left in average for my lifetime (if Andy Warhol is right), and I’m curious what I fill the rest with. Probably some bankrobbing-car-chase-scenes ;) Btw: I have to stop saying “halt” in my sentences *g