Hesitating, looking back repeatedly, the boy strolled through a small
alley which was surrounded by old big fences and even older mostly
dirty cottages. Having a slight jitter in his eye he tried to focus on
things surrounding him as if there was to be an option, a redemption,
something which would occupy his thoughts so he could continue to not
think about what was coming up.
His eyes found a small raven to glance upon, whose black feathers shone
in the merciless rays of the 1pm sun that seemed to reach for new heat
records. The raven peered back, as if deciding whether to pick his eyes
or better just stay as is, enjoying the little waves of cool air that
were streaming through from time to time.
The boy passed the raven, and as his eyes were about to find something
new for banning unwanted thoughts upon, it dawned on him that he had
already reached the end of the little alley, breaching for a scruffy
meadow enclosing a wooden chalet whose best years had probably been a
long time ago – if ever. Shoutings could be heard from inside and the
red sign on the grass reading ‘do not trespass, our dog eats your for
diner’  was probably just as worse.
The boy swallowed, entagled his little bag even more, took another last
glance back, and finally, with shivering feet, managed to head for the
front door.
The wood was even wreckier than it seemed at first sight, and there
were enormous scratches marking the floor which had totally fullfilled
their reason if their reason was to scare nine-year old boys to death.
The positioned himself in front of the door and aimed at the door bell,
only to realise that he already shivered too much to hit it the first
time.
His heart accelearted it’s beat, he tried again.
“Booong”. The Doorbell rang. It was one of these old-fashioned
non-digital doorbells which used a real bell and a small electric
circuit to conduct a steady hammering onto the bell.
There’re moments in life which seem to last forever, situations in
which only seconds feel as heavy as days. Imagine the first phone-call
to the beautifull girl (or boy) you just met on the train; every
phone-beep feels like a guillotine splitting your brain. Imagine worse.
Just as the boy was about to turn around, releasing anxiouty, fleeing from the situation, the door opened.
(to be continued)

Stolen from pixelex; Now this is funny

http://flickr.com/photos/niallkennedy/21370503/in/photostream/

See that Mac Mini on the Couch? Whats it doing up there? If you
click ‘previous pic’ a couple of times you’ll see new pics of Longhorn
& IE7

It’s finally summer over here, and I’m enjoying it Not much to
write, my life is quite boring currently and I’m at some sort of null
point which translates into not being interested into anything right
now, thus I’m … just not

only one of your closest friends would be able to write something as true as this about you.

“Paris-Baby, I am extremely sorry. But if you want to suck the best
cock you can find for your mouth I am not the one. Here take this
ticket, fly to Germany, take a taxi cab to this adress and have the
night of your life. Let’s see if you can survive it.”

I’m currently sitting in a small Hotel in Böblingen at the bar. They
offer Internet access here, and I feel quite a bit like a goddamn
Internet Junky.

Ah yes, and I’ve had a great day. I’ve to admit that I really start to
like the big american style IT working environment. I feel like we’re
really getting things done, people are always friendly, and the food is
gooood.

Ah, my beer just arrived

I released tagbag 1.25 yesterday,
it’s only a small bugfix release, adding one new feature. I’ll have
quite some free time this week (once again HP in Stuttgart) so I’ll try
to implement some of those new features I mention in my Todo list over
at http://www.terhech.de/tag

Release History:

13.06.05: 1.25

• Bugfix: @project.task doesn’t open as project.@task anymore
• Feature: Clicking on the group opens a Finder window now

I’ve to go to Stuttgart for a business-trip to Hewlett-Packard. I’ll
come back on Saturday just to leave again for a Birthday in Hamburg. So
I won’t be online or reachable till Monday.. If I have Internet-Access
at Hewlett-Packard I might be able to write some funny updates in here
(I hope they have good clubs in Stuttgart )

Can’t resist but smile a bit

“

Microsoft’s Roz Ho and Adobe’s Bruce Chizen both took the stage to reaffirm their commitment to the Macintosh platform
“

and

Jobs also discussed a new technology called Rosetta, that he described
as “a dynamic binary translator.” It runs existing PowerPC applications
on the Intel platform, he said. Jobs described Rosetta as
“lightweight,” and said “it’s nothing like Classic.”

Jobs demonstrated Rosetta by running Microsoft Office applications,
Quicken and Photoshop CS 2 — all unmodified PowerPC-binary versions,
unlike Mathematica — on the new Intel-based hardware.

//
and now for those new iPods he was talking about.. I need a new one…