And now?

Photosafari in St. Pauli. My Neighbour’s funeral. Return lend books. And still trying to get some sleep…

My Desk at blau.de

So, what’s going on? I’ve read some older entries eg. about the reqruiting fair at our university. Since September I’m an intern at Blau Mobilfunk (also know as blau.de). In November I’ve started to write my bachelorthesis with the title “Vespucci: Development of an Geodata Editor for the OpenStreetMap-Project on the Android-Plattform” *puh*. Deadline is on 26.2. and my presentation on 3.3..

Update: Narf, pasting code in wordpress is not a fine thing. So here’s the paste: http://sprunge.us/BNeX
Update2: Henrik got rid of the HTML-Output by an unvalid query. Here’s the updated version.

#!/bin/bash
# Written by Matthias Brandt (http://www.matthias-brandt.de)
# No warrenty given. Use may violent against Google's Terms of Use.
# Copyleft: GPLv3, http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html

USER_AGENT=’Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061017 Firefox/3.0′

#Substitute “+”,”/” with HTML-entities and blanks with “+”
QUERY=$(echo $* | sed ‘s/+/\%2B/g;s/\//\%2F/g;s/ /+/g’)

#wget the page, find the result and append a newline
wget -q -O – –user-agent=$USER_AGENT http://www.google.de/search?q=”$QUERY” | sed -e ‘/img/!d;s/.*<td nowrap dir=”ltr”><h2 class=”r”><font size=”+1″><b>\([^<]*\).*/\1/;/</d’ && echo “”

Examples:
calc 3 euro in usd
3 Euro = 4,6803 US-Dollar

calc 4353 in hex
4 353 = 0×1101

calc “4*3^2*sqrt(2)*tan(0.5)”
4 * (3^2) * sqrt(2) * tan(0.5) = 27.8131821

Most of them were really excited about my ideas for the bachelor thesis, which I won’t tell in here =) All I can say is that my favourite project would be in programming with Android (aka “Google-Phone”).

Friday evening I was invited for a barbecue at freiheit.com, my favourite employer. It was really nice to have a chat with many employees, including the CEO Stefan Richter. This week will decide if I do my internship and bachelor thesis there.

Just coming home from the public viewing at Heiligengeistfeld, St. Pauli. Enjoy the pictures =)

The night ended with an attempt to repair Sandra’s broken laptop called “Gabriel“, an older but still good looking IBM Thinkpad. The display seemed to have a loose contact and shows either black or funny wallpaper patterns… We couldn’t solve the problem, but everybody had his first insight of an opened Laptop now =)

By the way, Sandra told me that she doesn’t like to read my blog because of all this technical stuff in here. So I’ll try to make this a little bit more personal, even when the purpose was originally only technical =)

They are my absolute favourite band ever. Their style is hard to describe: Often you are told, that it’s somewhere between “rock, new wave, electro, psychedelia, and jazz with ambient vocals” (WP). Besides this, the reason why I love them so much is their really cutting-edge sounds and a huge passion for music. Once you have seen them, you would think, all other musicians play like robots. Awsome!

Here’s their last single “Typical”:

Later this Wednesday, I’ve been at the library at Berliner Tor, where two last copies in English stood. While walking by the shelves, I saw so many books I’d like to read. Books about Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, …

I defintely need more time in my life!

Ulteo’s “Virtual Desktop” does the way around: It emulates Linuxsystem Layer, so you can run Amarok, Konqueror, Kopete and others as well. The interesting thing about that is, Linux applications seem to get more acceptance so there is a need for emulating its programms on Windows.

[via Pro-Linux]