Tomorrow I’ll leave Germany for my holiday trip to Singapore, Sydney and Tasmania where I will go hiking on the Overland Track. So don’t expect any new commits or releases on phpMyFAQ for the next 3 weeks. Jason and Jochen will keep an eye on the forums.
Category Archives: Fun
1,000 posts
This ist the 1000th post I did since january 2004.
Seven Things
As David and Lars tagged me, here are my 7 things:
- I learned PHP because I didn’t get on with Perl.
- The highest speed I ever reached with a car was 255 kph.
- I started playing Handball with the age of 10.
- In 1997 I studied Eletronics for one year.
- Last year I started to read the Bible and the Quran: I didn’t finished both because they’re so boring.
- I’m working on phpMyFAQ for almost 8 years now.
- I spent more time in Wellington or Sydney than in Berlin.
And here are the rules I’m supposed to pass on to the following bloggers:
- Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
- Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird.
- Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
- Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.
And as for chaining, in no particularly significant order:
- Jens Grochtdreis for helping with XHTML and CSS problems
- Pierre A. Joye for being my first colleague
- Stefan Esser for finding bugs in phpMyFAQ and PHP itself
- Isotopp for one of the best blogs
- Ulf Wendel
- Jo Brunner
- thegap
Error Messages by Microsoft
Lego Thriller
Really great:
How to use computer books
Yesterday a drawer of my wardrobe broke and I have to glue it. I need some weights and I found them in my bookcase:

Football party in Munich

A picture from Leopoldstrasse, Munich, Germany after the 3:0 victory of Germany against Ecuador.
phpMyFAQ on my 6230
Looks cool, but I think, it’s quite useless:

The user agent: Nokia6230/2.0 (03.15) Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
OpenGL in PHP
Someone programmed a proof of concept OpenGL implementation in PHP. Strange but very interesting!
Found on /.
El?kel?iset
Today I’ll visit the El?kel?iset concert in Munich. This will be fun.
Ten little UNIX lines
Found at heise.de forum:
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Beatallica released
Beatallica released their second cover album since 2001. Check them out on www.beatallica.org if you like The Beatles and Metallica!
Great Mozilla picture
Found this great picture at Daniel Glazman’s blog:

Hacking a Pepsi bottlecap
If you’re living in the United States just read the posting “Pepsi Bottlecap Liner Labeling Information Leak Vulnerability” from Full Disclosure. Here’s the exploit to get a “free” song from Apple’s iTune.
Fun from bash.org
Found at bash.org:
Quaestor> how frequently does a question need to be asked to be considered a Frequently Asked Question?
Archon11> 7 times in the US and 11 in Canada. The European Union is considering a common number of five, but Great Britain refuses to comply and insists on using its own number, six. China does not allow questions except in Hong Kong.
Windows NT/2000 source code leaked
Found at /.: Real men don’t do backups, they just pack their files into windows_2000_source_code.zip and post them to their website…. with torrent links…
google PageRank jump
In less than 20 days, the PageRank of this subdomain “devblog” has risen from 0/10 to 6/10. Well, actually, this doesn’t mean anything, it’s just amazing to see how fast this cute crawler can follow the daily updates.
Duke Nukem Forever wins Lifetime Achievement Award
According to the Wired News’ Vaporware Awards the Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Duke Nukem Forever. Very funny.
Proper use of the phpMyFAQ name.
This morning, I saw this link to the Adobe page. It is an extensive explanation how to use the term “Adobe? Photoshop? ” in a way that even their corporate ID pope will dance and cheer. After rethinking the whole thing, I decided that we should encourage people to do the same regarding phpMyFAQ:
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Distributing phpMyFAQ via P2P
In case someone has still 250 KB left on his/her hard drive, here are two suggestions:
ed2k://|file|phpmyfaq.1.3.9.full.zip|322631|9A388FD0C830BA3317FF910FA61CCD01|/
ed2k://|file|phpmyfaq.1.4.0.m2.zip|288713|1F673D8C88C6F739FE9E041B7B71D0AE|/