Zwischen den Jahren

Fun fact: In Germany the time between christmas and new year's, sometimes referred to as "boxing week", is called zwischen den Jahren (transl. between the years).

Ok, just a quick update: After celebrating christmas with my mom and friends, I went back to work. In the few days off, I basically brought my brain to hibernate by having some drinks with friends, cleaning up my place while listening to a sh*tload of podcasts, doing a bit of XMPP research, watching a few EPL games in 720p (since the Bundesliga is on holidays), a pair of Lakers games, the 1995 US Amateur (Marucci vs. Woods), and the 1998 Johnny Walker Classic.

I hope being rejuvenated and freshly reset for the Gregorian 2010 and wish the same for you guys.

Xmas

Seemlessly moving from work to xmas celebrations. Happy holidays to all of you!

ZA on film

South Africa highly represented in mainstream movies these days: District 9, Endgame, Skin , The World Unseen, Invictus, The Bang Bang Club.

Not to mention the large payload of documentaries, including Louis Theroux's arguable visit to Johannesburg.

Get Darker

Enjoying the Get Darker podcast for the n'th weekend in a row, now. Get addicted: http://rss.getdarker.com/

Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

Can someone pls send me a link to the video of the full Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech of Barack Obama? I'm only seeing excerpts and commentaries!?

Update: Lol, last place I looked (and was indexed) http://nobelprize.org/

New feeds for this blog

I have been asked if there were a distinction in RSS between microblog and blog, since maybe some of you do not want the "what am I having for lunch" stuff. To ease things, I have introduced a new category for the traditional blog and now the following feeds are available:

• Blog + Microblog (the old one - so don't worry)
• Blog only
• Microblog only

Cheers, reuben

All About Steve

No news: I am also a fan of cheesy comedies. Not all of them, but this one fitted nicely: All About Steve. Enjoyed it.

Going paleo

Tried going "paleo", today. Feeling good. Was invited to my parents for supper and still could hold it up with some nice chicken, cauliflower, and carrots. But I believe you always feel good when eating "common-healthy". ;)

Don't believe I can really cut milk, bread, and eggs for long, though.

GDNS and net neutrality

I'm happy to see Google install public DNS. For a long time there has been a lot of loud talk about net neutrality and there have been some amount of political initiatives. But when I personally talk to people (even in IT), they are oddly uninterested in this important topic. Now, it's therefore quite a relief for me to see an actual practical approach to preserve net neutrality.

SGE vs Mainz 05

Beautiful, beautiful derby between Eintracht Frankfurt and FSV Mainz 05. Huge, hearty effort and well played on both sides. Enjoyed it big time.