Recently I had a mobile device stolen – a phone. It was a ZTE Avid 4G smartphone running Android. I love this model phone because it is good enough to run Android and all the things I need or want: a web browser (Dolphin), mail client (K9 mail), contacts management (Contacts+ synced with my personal…

I’ve posted before about installing CyanogenMod on a Galaxy Tab 10.1. Some things have changed since that time. I read that Cyanogen has received funding to hire developers full-time. The “unoffical” CyanogenMod releases that were at droidbasement.com, which I mentioned in previous posts, are still there but now if you go the actual cyanogenmod.com site…

Wow.  I’m still surprised at the ubiquity of san-serif fonts.  I wrote about this a while back.  I remember when san-serif fonts seemed really cool.  That was back in the time of VGA-resolution monitors.  Yes, at that time, sans-serif fonts like Arial looked nice on displays. Such fonts also look good for special purposes: for…

I’ve written multiple posts about Edward Snodwn and the NSA-Abhörskandal as it is called in German.  I believe it is my duty to voice my concerns and to speak out strongly in support of human rights and freedom whenever possible. I was one of hundreds of thousands who marched in the streets of San Francisco…

The Süddeutsche Zeitung (South-German Times) has a mind-blowing online slideshow of color images taken in 1914, right before the outbreak of the horrific First World War. Can you image what it would be like if there were color photos from, say, the time of Bach or perhaps the time of Socrates? When I see the…

Waste to Waves (wastetowaves.org) has a list

I just read an article about how an aunt of North Korean dictator Kim Jon Un managed to flee to the US and was granted political asylum. She had surgery to change her appearance and lives in secret somewhere in America. Its funny, because I live in a city that is so multi-cultural, and I’ve…

In the ongoing process of rearranging my life and my living environment, I ended up having a couple file storage boxes filled with clothes hangers. The only problem is that they don’t fit into file storage boxes. Clothes hangers are a mess to deal with as everyone knows. So today I decided to see what…

There have been a couple of highly significant articles today at spiegel.de in which more and more top German political leaders are increasingly calling for the country to grant him asylum. We are talking about people like the former General Secretary of the ruling CDU party alongside with top leaders from left-opposition parties, and the…