Note: The post ‘Sort writeboards in basecamp by date’ shows my second bookmarklet to enhance basecamp.  Somehow I wrote the post about the first one in both this blog and devo.to, but published it only on devo.to. For the sake of completeness, here it is again.
As much as I enjoy getting into new stuff, I [...]

As the folks around me have probably noticed by now, estoy apprendiendo español. Yes, I am learning Spanish. One of my favorite free online dictionaries for the English language is located at leo.org. Fortunately, this site also hosts a Spanish version. Unfortunately, it does not provide a means of translating a term into multiple languages [...]

#rendered, #source {
sposition: absolute;
stop: 10px;
sright: 10px;
border: 1px solid black;
width: 400px;
height: 200px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}

$(function() {
$(’#source’).keyup(function() {
$(’#rendered’).html($(this).val());
});
});

A few days ago I started teaching a team-mate some basic HTML. I didn’t really know where to start and what to tell, but I thought it would be nice to have a tool for easily writing some code and seeing the [...]

Read my last song-of-the-day post? This time it’s even worse. 51 (not kidding) iterations and counting.

This morning I had my first lesson of Tai chi.
Hm. Well. One sentence. Maybe I should really accomodate microblogging.

Yesterday I saw a Burger King ad telling me that we are in the Red Hot Chili Weeks right now. Yay! So what did I do? I headed home from work, pulled out my phone and launched the navigation app. I then searched for Burger King subsidiaries nearby. And guess what? 10 minutes later I [...]

My new phone just arrived! Well, it actually arrived two weeks ago. But since it took two weeks for the phone to finally find its way to me, it took me another two weeks to realize that the phone is finally where it belongs. Right in my pocket. Nice little thingy by the way (Product [...]

Today is one of these days where I accidentally find a song and cannot stop listening to it over and over again. On those rare occasions I deliberately use the repeat-one function of my player. Let’s see how long it takes, 13 iterations so far!

I now know that it is old, but I first read it just a few minutes ago and I nearly laughed my ass off.
NEW YORK– Kraft Foods, Inc. announced today that its board of
directors unanimously rejected the $11 billion takeover bid by Philip
Morris and Co. A Kraft spokesman stated in a press conference that the
offer [...]

If the title of this post happens to be on your to-do list or if you are just interested in version control beyond CVS and SVN, have a look at gitcasts.com. It served as a useful starting point for me.