[Music] Venetian Snares – Szerencsétlen

Because I got lucky some days ago buying the awesome Venetian Snares – Rossz Csillag Alatt Született on 2 x 12”

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[Nerd-Content] Twitter Roundup #19

• Mockingbird is great for doing website mockups
• Listening to white noise and brown noise running through machines is cool …
• “Premature optimization is the root of all evil” is the root of all evil

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[Nerd-Content] Twitter Roundup #18

• From HCI class: “our job is to build a system customers will want; not a system customers say they want”
• Healthy group discussions: << think about “what” you should be doing and “why”, instead of “who” and “how >>
• Hudson is a good continuous integraton server …
• One of the most important Rails commits: deOMGifying Rails
• Work in small companies and innovate. Let’s put that in a graph
• Moving all furniture around the room just for finding the sweet spot of the speakers is totally worth it! I’m newly amazed by my Adams …
• Disko DNA is having a facebook fan page. here.
• I am now more than one year on twitter. And this blog is over five years old …

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[Nerd-Content] Yale Promotion Ad

This is just one epic promotion ad that is getting crazier by the minute. Watch until the show really starts …

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[In General], [Mobile Photos] ♥ Ikea Expedit

I think that the Expedit shelf by Ikea is a really stylish piece of
furniture that might be one of the depicting furnishing elements of the
‘00 years. I know a lot of people and companys owning some because
Expedits are following an easy and streamlined design concept, offer a
lot of space for stuff and are extendable with more Expedits or elements
like boxes and drawers . And of course, they are unbeatable cheap.

I have been owning the one 2×4 Expedit seen here for quite some time. It
is housing my turntables and mixer. I’ve eleveated it with capita legs
to have an ergonomic working posisition. Vinyl records and the dj
equipment fit perfectly.

Last week, I bought two more Expedits. One 2×2 with capita legs
extending my DJ Expedit. And another 2×4 for keyboards on the top and
"stuff" in the fillings as a sideboard to my working desk.

If you need a shelf consider Expedits …

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[Nerd-Content] Twitter Roundup #17

• I bought Witch, the most handy window switcher available for Mac OS X
• Google has opened a Public DNS Service with the IP 8.8.8.8
• The German Django Foundation has been founded
• I preordered a Wakemate
• “Wie entsteht Neues bei der Produktion elektronischer Tanzmusik im Homerecording-Studio?” Diplomarbeit von Jan vom Berlin Mitte Institut. Empfehlenswert!
• Migrated to Thunderbird 3. Liking the search …

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[Music] Nirvana vs. Rick Astley- Smells like never giving you up

Have been listening to this over and over again …

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[Personal] Questions to ask in small talk

(no, not smalltalk the programming language)

• What have you been thinking about lately?
• What have you been working on lately?
• What is important to you?
• What have you been excited about lately?
• What is your story?
• What is the most amazing thing you have seen today?
• How do you like to spend your time?

Print or bookmark them and use the questions at the next opportunity.

[based on this post and the comments]

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[Nerd-Content] Twitter Roundup #16

• Seen a textr eBook reader in the wild. Nice gadged. Could be a kindl killer. Will be released in december.
• Really enjoyed this talk by Giles Bowkett on Ruby, Techno Culture, Projects, Venture Capital and your Fuckin Life!
• I switched from Bloglines to Google Reader. Can’t continue watching Bloglines die. Moved all my subscriptions via OMPL export. Painless.
• Controlling Ableton and Frontrow with a Wiimote is working.
• Watch & download all “Techno Seminar” videos and audio recordings from Berlin Mitte Institut and here me asking smart questions about producing.
• SoundCloud was having one of the best releases of all time.

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[Nerd-Content] How Tracks on a Map is doing

About 1 1/2 months ago Tracks on a Map has been launched. I want to do a small recap and see, where it is standing now.

The twitter account is the main channel for communicating about Tracksonamap. At the moment I’m unregularly sending out links to tracks or cities using the Tracksonamap share feature. I’m also thanking people for “you are awesome” tweets. Only 50 people are following the account right now which is a fairly small number. But since I don’t want to join the spammy “i follow you so please follow back”-practice I’m just going to wait for new followers to arrive.

The Github repository has experienced no traction at all.

There have been features on some blogs like
Berlin Mitte Institut
De:Bug
Google Maps Mania

The Admin-Dashboard of Google App Engine is no valuable source for metering the application. The thing I miss most is looking back more than 24 hours in usage statistics. I think that i have not been over quota yet (not even with 5000 visitors a day) and that we have been coding some solid code. At least that’s what the logs indicate. The datastore sometimes gives timeouts which I suppose is Googles and not my fault. But I may want to build some error/retry handling around that someday.

Google Analytics says, during the last month about 40.000 unique users have been visiting Tracks on a Map. The main traffic driver was StumbleUpon. Looks as if we hit a nerve with the community there.

I’m currently planning the next iteration which will be again part of a seminar at university. I’m aiming on getting a 1.0 again, just like the last time

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