Random Stuff

Bremen-based chocolate manufacturers Hachez have recently launched a new line-up of their exquisite high-percentage cocoa chocolate (and you thought this post was about programming), named "Wild Cocoa" (link is in German). Here's how it looks:



Since Hachez chocolate can be safely considered to be among the top chocolates in the world and they're based in the city where I live, I thought it would be fitting if I as a Cocoa developer gave their new lineup a try.

I went to their cozy little downtown store and purchased a 100g bar of each of the flavours (45% cocoa and 70% cocoa, respectively) which cost me exactly € 6.00 - a price I'll gladly pay for great chocolate.

I tried the 45% one first and was a little disappointed by the whole milk chocolate taste. It didn't taste bad at all, but whole milk chocolate just isn't my cup of tea.

The 70% one, however, had a lot more intense cocoa flavour and matched my taste very well. Only my superior self-control and the promise of a hot meal in due time kept me from devouring it in its entirety right there, on the spot. It was mostly the self-control, really. I'd never lie to you.

All in all, the new brand is a welcome addition to Hachez' chocolate lineup. I still maintain that the name "Wild Cocoa" could have made a great Cocoa-related blog or something.

Although Adobe discourages the use of "Photoshop" as a verb, I think it's great that the dictionary is going with the commonly used meaning.

Now, this is pretty cool:



Once I get my Wii back from my co-worker, I will have to try this.

A few months ago, my brother-in-law contacted me about a broken hard disk drive. It was a 160 GB Maxtor drive which had an obvious phyical defect, and he asked me whether I could help him recover the data on the drive - there were hundreds, if not thousands, of pictures of my niece on the drive that have never been backed up (yeah, I know). So I took the drive in my hands and started my attempt at rescuing these important files.
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It has been a tough week for me, mostly because I was suffering from a cold and partially because of work. As if life with my main job would not be tough enough as it is, we had a hard drive die at this project where I help out whenever I can. Now, this would normally be not that bad, but the mirrored hard drive screwed up our MySQL data. Read More

Lab Tick's latest release, version 0.6, has been very successful with PowerBook and MacBook Pro users worldwide. In the two days since I have released it, there were over 1,200 downloads (which is huge for an application with such a limited audience) and traffic on my website has increased by factor 15. Not only do these people find my software on MacUpdate, Versiontracker and Apple.com but also from blogs, forums and smaller Mac software sites around the globe. People recommend Lab Tick to other people and I have yet to receive a single complaint about the new release. All in all, I would say Lab Tick 0.6 was a big success, and that makes it all worth it. Read More

And it only took me a little more than 24 seconds. Proof.

Ludvig was not so lucky - it took him 52 minutes to find Satan.

Regular readers (both of you) will have noticed a disturbing (or rather, comforting) lack of new posts lately. I cannot believe that I did not post anything new in over a month. So, here's a small update of what's been going on.

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Vielen Dank an AntiVegan.de für das tolle Rezept!
Much thanks to AntiVegan.de for the great recipe!







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I have recently used various mobile phones from various manufacturers such as Nokia and Motorola, but nothing comes close to Sony-Ericsson when it comes to Mac compatibility.

While I am waiting for my K800i, a co-worker gave me a K600i (working in a mobile communications company has its perks):



I just love this thing.

Seriously. Drive one and you can imagine what heaven must be like.

Can't wait for the World Cup :-)