The year is almost over again. Only several hours are left before 2006 comes to replace the already ill-fated 2005.
A newyear  always comes with new hopes, ideas, goals.
When the last year started, I had hopes and ideas which worked out
totally different than I expected. Usually New Years Resolutions are
part of the goals which one makes for the next year, and just as I had
no goals, I had no resolutions either. Looking back I have to say tht
it wasn’t a bad year at all. Everyone has his up’s and down’s and so I
had times when I was in deep despair just as I had times when I felt so
lucky that I could have cried.
Understanding this I still think that it might be usefull to make some
real New Years Resolutions, on the one hand to have something to look
back to at the end of the coming year, and on the other to have some
sort of plan, or collection of goals. Something to refer to if I’m not
sure which direction to go. And as I’m already in the busy again (I
need to leave for a new years party in <60min) I’ll start with my
resolutions now.

* I’ll stop smoking. This one is important. I’ve actually never been a
real smoker.. I’m more someone who smokes from time to time when at a
party. But I need to adress this issue now before it starts getting
worse. This will be a tough one as I only smoke when I’m drunk, and
when I’m drunk I hardly have the will to refuse a cigarette, but I’ll
try my best.

* I’ve to lose weight. Adiposity has been in a strong battle with me
over the years. And won. My current job leaves little to no time for
sport, and the fact that I’m almost living in a hotel isn’t good for
nutrition either. So I have to force me to eat good healthy food
everytime I can, and do sports everytime schedule allows it. Only a
combined attack with strong will can help me here.

* Spanish. Yes again, I’m still eager to enhance my basic spanish
skillset onto a conversation-friendly level which would allow me to
talk with my argentinian friends without frequently having to dig
through tons of gestures. I bought spanish books recently and reading
them is not that bad, I need to learn some many words, but at least I
can work around the language for now. For the next year I’ll hope to be
able to greatly enhance my vocabulary so I finally can start writing
blog posts in spanish which make sense in the one or other way.

* Dutch. Everything in life has a dual nature, and since I need to
learn dutch due to some requirements I enforced upon myself, I thought
I might very well try to do it next to learning spanish. My brain
should be in the right mode when I’m busy learning spanish, so learning
dutch in addition to it can only make it easier.

* Set goals. This one is important. I, as described above, lack goals.
I have plans, ideas and whatnot, but no goals. I’ve read some
interersting books regarding this topic now (for example David Allen’s
‘Getting Things Done’) but I didn’t adapt that knowledge yet.
With the events and results of what I currently plan for 2006, a first real set of goals should be possible.

* Blog more. Yeah just that.

Ok, that’s it. These are my new years resolutions. If you see me not adhering to them, feel free to allude me.
Thanks for reading.

Have a Happy New Years.
Best wishes for 2006
Benedikt Terhechte

I created a new Mac OS X Application, dubbed ‘Safarilicious’. It
exports your Safari Browser bookmarks to your del.icio.us account.

More details on the Stylemac Safrilicious page.

I thought I’d join the google adsense $1 bandwagon too, and created a
small page which stands to help in the war of Firefox versus Internet
Explorer.
So, next time you try to explain a friend of yours (or a family member)
why Firefox is better, you could just as well link him up to the
virenfrei-surfen page, and hope that it’ll convince him to switch.

Here’s the page:
www.virenfrei-surfen.de

I wanted to write about this earlier, but .. well you know limited time and stuff, useless to write about it again.

I was kindly asked from Metamac.de to write an article about “Tagging under Mac OS X” – and so I did. So in the current issue of the Metamac magazine
(the new one will come out tomorrow, so I’m a bit late with this
newspost), there’s an article by me describing the various ways of
applying tags and using them (and the benefits of this for your
workflow) under Mac OS X.  I might release this article on this
blog (or Stylemac.com) somepoint in the future.

I’m sorry for the lack of passion I invested into this blog lately. But
several new projects, commitments to other things, business at work as
well as an added emphasis on party and friends.
I have quite a lot of news which I want to share, on the one hand so
other people know about it (some people tend to call it ‘pimpin) and on
the other hand so I can remember this (via this blog) someday in the
future. I’ll cut all the news in different posts.
My writing could sound (read?) funny because I’m currently sitting in a
hotel in Stuttgart and I’m already  a tad drunk, but more on that
later on.

Back when I was young, I loved the Guinness Book of Records. Not only
was it interesting to read what kind of records people had been working
on, there was a lot of fact information too. Longest bridge, heaviest
plane, highest skyscraper and so on. My friends and me, we spend
countless hours digging through it, hoping to find the funniest or
coolest record (like this guy with the longest fingernails).

Now you can be part of a record too!
Dublay of Module23.com tries to reach for a Guinness Book of Records entry by creating the longest link-list ever.
Not only a funny idea, but also a good way to advertise your page, the
higher in the list you are, the more people will see your page if this
idea catches on (read: if it’ll be posted at digg)<br/>
Great idea.

The Worlds Biggest Linklist – A Guinness Record Tryout

Tadaaaaaa!
After several days of hard work (and some weeks of planning in the initial phase) I’m proud to present my newest project:
www.stylemac.com – Fresh Apple Design & Tech News

Stylemac features Apple and Design related and even Windows users might
find the one or other interesting tidbit as design news are mostly
cross-plattform anyway.

There are some interface glitches left, which I want to correct as soon
as possible, though that means after I’m back from Stuttgart, as I’ve
to fly to Stuttgart again tomorrow.

I just moved the TagBag! Widget over
to the new page, as it makes more sense for it to stay over there.

I hope you’ll enjoy the page nevertheless, I’ll try to settle at
something between 5-10 news posts a day, and would love to count you
among my readers ;)  or at least write some comments quoting your
opinion about the page.

I’ll of course continue to post here at terhech.de as this is my
personal blog (it’s just that I have little personal to say from time
to time)

This is my first videogame remix after 3 years ob absence from video
game remixing (for the uninformed readers: yeah there is such a thing
as a videogame music remix community), and I’m really happy with the
outcome. I might even continue this path and do some more videogame
remixes again in the future. Now a blurb of text about this track:
This is my submission to JoeCams excellent Earthbound remix project “Bound Together“. There are 32 submissions from some of the best remixers out there, the whole thing rocks darn hard. You should really go and download the others too.
This remix builds upon the Coffee Break theme and thus concentrates on something which is a vital part of my life. Coffee.
Most of this track was made during my 14 day vacation on the greek
island Mykonos. The relaxing atmosphere of sunny beaches caught on to
this track, too – I think. The title means ‘Coffee Break’ in greek. I
hope you’ll enjoy it. The guitar parts were played by the famous Frank van’t Ende (Diggi Dis).

You can download the track here

I’d be happy about some comments, criticism and stuff.

Head over to apple.com to see them tribute Rosa Parks instead of showing of their products.

On Friday Raphael and me we went to Anita’s birthday in Enschede (NL).
We had funny times over there; nice conversations and laughed a lot. I
took some pictures with my new K750i Mobilephone (which sports a 2mpx
camera).  Pictures follow..