My dear readers,
well, a little bit late but the Easter Rabbit had some surprising presents for me I was enjoying so far :)
So happy Eastern to all of you, I hope you had the time to enjoy with your beloved and families.
Ingo
2008-03-24
2008-03-20
Life: Alba vs. Ulm
Well,thanks you Frauke and Peter, old friends of mine, I was in the lucky position to be live in the Stadium when Alba kicked off Ulm in a basketball war.
Even though I was really sceptic since I am not the fan of watching sport at all - I have to admit it was somehow funny and a real nice experience.
I added some more pictures http://picasaweb.google.com/superdummy2001/AlbaVsUlm.
Thanks a lot Frauke and Peter,
Ingo
2008-02-29
Recycling - and what others do to help
Hi,
in one of my fields, the IT, currently everybody is talking about green IT.
Manufacturers, Data Center, etc. are all talking about less energy consuming computers and equipment. Some of them even realized that it may be a good idea to use wood or other biological material for future PCs.
Well, nice ideas but folks, it's the same stupid thing to-do as with Bio-Gas for cars etc... Here for example, the raw material, canola etc., might be regenerative - but on what costs. Energy investments for fertilizer etc. have been so far not taken into account. The same btw. for all regenerative energies - I hope that sooner or later people really will start to walk the production process entirely and not picking out the rosins.
For the PC's etc., the answer must be - from my point of view - don't look only on the current energy consumption, have a look to the production process and related materials as well. Maybe you'll find methods here which are way better then regenerative materials to cover our computers :o)
And, you might have a look to http://www.recycling-atelier.de. - The page is currently only German, but the idea is obvious. A friend of mine and her partners started to recycle existing and wearied out furniture and make new, great looking furniture from it.
Transporting this idea to the IT industry, there might be better ways to come over the problems. I know, a Pentium 4 or previous processors aren't the best example - nor energy consuming / wasting gamer PC's like mine - but maybe there are people smarter than me having ideas on farming these machines and archiving tremendous performance (by putting an application layer of all systems or so?) and finally we do not need new machines but can recycle old once.... or whatever way to go here.
Well, I wonder if someone is reading my blog at all - but if so, maybe you have some ideas about what and how to recycle - let me know. I am anxious to get your thoughts.
Greetings,
Ingo
in one of my fields, the IT, currently everybody is talking about green IT.
Manufacturers, Data Center, etc. are all talking about less energy consuming computers and equipment. Some of them even realized that it may be a good idea to use wood or other biological material for future PCs.
Well, nice ideas but folks, it's the same stupid thing to-do as with Bio-Gas for cars etc... Here for example, the raw material, canola etc., might be regenerative - but on what costs. Energy investments for fertilizer etc. have been so far not taken into account. The same btw. for all regenerative energies - I hope that sooner or later people really will start to walk the production process entirely and not picking out the rosins.
For the PC's etc., the answer must be - from my point of view - don't look only on the current energy consumption, have a look to the production process and related materials as well. Maybe you'll find methods here which are way better then regenerative materials to cover our computers :o)
And, you might have a look to http://www.recycling-atelier.de. - The page is currently only German, but the idea is obvious. A friend of mine and her partners started to recycle existing and wearied out furniture and make new, great looking furniture from it.
Transporting this idea to the IT industry, there might be better ways to come over the problems. I know, a Pentium 4 or previous processors aren't the best example - nor energy consuming / wasting gamer PC's like mine - but maybe there are people smarter than me having ideas on farming these machines and archiving tremendous performance (by putting an application layer of all systems or so?) and finally we do not need new machines but can recycle old once.... or whatever way to go here.
Well, I wonder if someone is reading my blog at all - but if so, maybe you have some ideas about what and how to recycle - let me know. I am anxious to get your thoughts.
Greetings,
Ingo
2008-01-12
Do we need to prevent youth crime or not
Elections in some states in Germany - and, how else should it be, Roland Koch is at the front of populistic phrases.. as other German politicans do as well, the one or other way at least.
What's the exitment about?
In short: We had - once again - some 'teenies' with migration background who conducted brutal crime. Not to say that we do have the same type of crime also with 'teenies' with NO migration background every day as well.
I wonder why everybody is talking about deportation, Jail etc.. Why are only a few people talking about youth crime prevention? - Ok, they are talking but not walking their talk at all. I remember an article in the Berliner Tageszeitung about a police man who was brutally attacked by some teenagers a year or two ago. The very interesting thing these days was, the discussion was the same, politicans of all parties were blaming the others and of course demanding the one or other at this moment opportune thing.
What was the outcome?
As far as I am informed by some members in my living community working in the field of "Jugendfoerderung" (my bad english translation: youth encouragement) told me that by law 15% of the youth etat given in Germany should be used for youth encouragement. Since the above mentioned incident with the police man, only in Berlin, this went down to nearly 5% and this year, 2008, to below 1%...
Why's that?
I don't have the answer, but I think that prevention is not as easy measureable and supporting the gaining of a good image of politicans and others then waiting for the guaranteed and populistic event of conducted crimes. I know - even this here is quite populistic and I should do a better investigation before writing something like this in a public location - but I think as a discussion base, this is an interesting point to start from.
So the question is: Prevention or not?
I personally believe that prevention is the best method to go for - maybe we should provide politicans and other responsible people with a measurement method giving them the chance to gain image from such projects instead of provocating new events like the once currently in the discussion.
Disturbing...
... is to me that the press always reports bad things but does not support - nationwide, not locally - such projects by reporting about them on a long run and supporting them by this way and making them more interesting for the mass of the people in this country. This would be education we are lacking from and it would destroy the base for populists as well.
What's the exitment about?
In short: We had - once again - some 'teenies' with migration background who conducted brutal crime. Not to say that we do have the same type of crime also with 'teenies' with NO migration background every day as well.
I wonder why everybody is talking about deportation, Jail etc.. Why are only a few people talking about youth crime prevention? - Ok, they are talking but not walking their talk at all. I remember an article in the Berliner Tageszeitung about a police man who was brutally attacked by some teenagers a year or two ago. The very interesting thing these days was, the discussion was the same, politicans of all parties were blaming the others and of course demanding the one or other at this moment opportune thing.
What was the outcome?
As far as I am informed by some members in my living community working in the field of "Jugendfoerderung" (my bad english translation: youth encouragement) told me that by law 15% of the youth etat given in Germany should be used for youth encouragement. Since the above mentioned incident with the police man, only in Berlin, this went down to nearly 5% and this year, 2008, to below 1%...
Why's that?
I don't have the answer, but I think that prevention is not as easy measureable and supporting the gaining of a good image of politicans and others then waiting for the guaranteed and populistic event of conducted crimes. I know - even this here is quite populistic and I should do a better investigation before writing something like this in a public location - but I think as a discussion base, this is an interesting point to start from.
So the question is: Prevention or not?
I personally believe that prevention is the best method to go for - maybe we should provide politicans and other responsible people with a measurement method giving them the chance to gain image from such projects instead of provocating new events like the once currently in the discussion.
Disturbing...
... is to me that the press always reports bad things but does not support - nationwide, not locally - such projects by reporting about them on a long run and supporting them by this way and making them more interesting for the mass of the people in this country. This would be education we are lacking from and it would destroy the base for populists as well.
2007-12-24
How was 2007 for you?
Hi,
looking back the first time in life, I have to say that 2007 was one of the worst years for me, personally and from a business perspective.
Personally I lost the only woman I loved more then my live. She is the only one I even started to change for - even though this was to slow.
Secondary, I betrayed all my ideals. Why's that? I recognized that my ideals do not work in todays world, looking back for the last 10 years, I figured out that nearly everyone I know ripped my ideals for his/her own sake - well, I am not resentful since I allowed it in the one or other manner. Anyways, this ends in 2007 - so something good happens at all.
Third, I decided to change my workplace in 2007 - and stumbled out of the frying pan into the fire..
Well, what else could happen - so far nothing more, but way enough.
Let's hope for 2008 - I am cautioned optimistic :-)
Have a great, healthful and successful 2008 - who ever and where ever you are. And let me know how your 2007 was..
looking back the first time in life, I have to say that 2007 was one of the worst years for me, personally and from a business perspective.
Personally I lost the only woman I loved more then my live. She is the only one I even started to change for - even though this was to slow.
Secondary, I betrayed all my ideals. Why's that? I recognized that my ideals do not work in todays world, looking back for the last 10 years, I figured out that nearly everyone I know ripped my ideals for his/her own sake - well, I am not resentful since I allowed it in the one or other manner. Anyways, this ends in 2007 - so something good happens at all.
Third, I decided to change my workplace in 2007 - and stumbled out of the frying pan into the fire..
Well, what else could happen - so far nothing more, but way enough.
Let's hope for 2008 - I am cautioned optimistic :-)
Have a great, healthful and successful 2008 - who ever and where ever you are. And let me know how your 2007 was..
Christmas time and years end race
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to those few reading my blog :)
2007-05-21
Some stuff about Games, story telling etc.
Alternate Reality Games: I'm Not So Sure I Love Bees. - http://www.fileplanet.com/fileblog/archives/2007/02/entry_210.shtml
GameSpy's Top 25 Video Game Cinematic Moments - http://www.gamespy.com/articles/771/771937p1.html
GDC: Game Developers Rant II - http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2006/03/gdc_game_develo.html
GameSpy's Top 25 Video Game Cinematic Moments - http://www.gamespy.com/articles/771/771937p1.html
GDC: Game Developers Rant II - http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2006/03/gdc_game_develo.html
David Freeman on the Art of Writing for Games - http://www.gamespy.com/articles/596/596254p1.html
Why writing isn't taken seriously - http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/game-writing-1.ars/2
Why Isn't the Game Industry Making Interactive Stories? - http://www.gamespy.com/articles/596/596223p1.html
Storytelling vs. Gameplay: Can't We Get Along?
Everyone wants more stories in games -- at least they say they do. But what does that really mean? And how do you create a meaningful story in an interactive medium? Fargo takes a look at the differences between Hollywood and games, the techniques developers can use to tell stories in games, and what we'll see in the future.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
2007-05-09
2006-08-26
a beginning...
well, how to start something you didn't thought you would ever do?
Well, maybe by simply doing it the way I always do it: just starting it by trying around an analyzing the results ;)
Well, maybe by simply doing it the way I always do it: just starting it by trying around an analyzing the results ;)
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