On Intelligence
December 27th, 2008
I’ve found an interesting video. In the 20 minutes this video lasts Jeff Hawkins presents his theory of intelligence, which is very interesting in my opinion. I think, Jeff Hawkins might have discovered one very important piece in the puzzle of understanding the human brain.
If you are interested further in this topic you may want to read the book “On Intelligence” by Jeff Hawkins. I did not do this, yet, but I will surely do so in the future. There is also a website belonging to this book: www.onintelligence.org
To the topHaskell Modules
December 16th, 2008
I’ve written two small Haskell modules and published them here.
Cursor acceleration under Mac OS X
December 15th, 2008
I’ve bought recently a Macbook Pro and was very annoyed by the cursor acceleration of Mac OS X: Either the mouse cursor was moving very slowly or (if you moved the mouse faster) jumped nearly from one screen edge to another.
Luckily I could solve this problem now. You can download a file name “killmouseaccel.tar.gz” from this forum thread (somewhere in the middle). It contains the program killmouseaccel. You have to start it from a terminal:
/path/to/killmouseaccel mouse
Instead of “mouse” you can also specify “trackpad” or even both. For me this program works very well and it is free unlike most other solutions (e.g. USBOverdrive or SteerMouse).
Safe Distance
November 3rd, 2008
Is there any reason why the safe distance is wider in the front than in the back?
DnD Fight
July 25th, 2008
Last night I was playing Dungeons and Dragons with a couple of friends. We figured out that the Smartie packings match exactly 2 fields and used them as sarcophagus. The rubber in the center should be sword which is stuck in the ground 
Great fight!
I have to say that I really like the fourth edition of Dungeons and Dragons. Especially being the DM is much more fun IMO.
Paperless Geocaching with iPods
July 17th, 2008
Because I wanted to do paperless geocaching with my iPod Nano I wrote a tool for this: gpx2ipod May be useful to others, too.
DnD4: Defenses vs. Saving Throws
July 14th, 2008
In the fourth edition of Dungeons & Dragons there are no fortitude, reflex or will saving throws any more. Everything is now a fixed defense score. But it is easy to change these defense scores back into saving throws by following these steps:
WordPress Plugins
July 11th, 2008
Today I published two wordpress plugins which I have written and which I am using for this homepage. These are autotables for colorizing the tables and pathbar for an easy navigation.
Backgammon
June 10th, 2008
I published a Backgammon game today. It supports matches against human players, the computer and via a network connection.
World Record with Firefox 3?
June 2nd, 2008
The release of Firefox 3 will be soon and with the release a new world record should be reached: The most downloads within 24 hours! At the moment the exact release date is unknown, but you can register at spreadfirefox.com and you’ll be kept up-to-date.
