time travel

Since we will move to a new apartment in November, we started to get rid of electronic equipment (or waste ;)). We found old CRT monitors, old 10Base2 and 10Base-T cards, serial and SCSI scanners, video recorders, tons of cables, analog modems, printers and so on and so forth. It was like a small time travel in the past of computer equipment...

cool runnings...

Beautiful weather this sunday! It's mid of October and we have clear sky, 17° celsius, no rain, calm winds. I shot some pictures during my training run today, most of them near or from the autobahn bridge near the airport.
Panorama from the bridge:

Run Forrest run!

Even I'm not as fast as Forrest Gump I finished my first half marathon in cologne. We had excellent weather conditions and a lot of fun. Pictures will probably follow soon ;)

Open Letter to a friend...

... is the name of the new H-Bockx album. H-Blockx (for those who don't know) is a german cross-over band and was very popular some years ago. Their last albums were very poor, but this is really a big step forward. The more I hear it, the more I like it...

build on sand

... are these sculptures. We used the sunny weekend weather to visit an exhibition of sand sculptures.

Mr. Bush is also there:

Illumina 07

This weekend we visited the "Illumina" exhibition around the castle "Dyck" near Duesseldorf. The light installations around the castle looked really beatiful. See additional pictures here.
Sorry for the bad quality of the pictures, my equipment is not even semi-pro ;)

JavaFX

Here's a good summary of JavaFX and what SUN wants to cover with it. Even that I don't believe that JavaFX Mobile as a full phone stack will be a success, there are good parts of the JavaFX program. For example the Consumer JRE initiative is more then needed now, most interesting part seems to be the Java Kernel idea here.