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Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish … RIP Steve Jobs

Christian — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:06:43 +0000

Thank you for so much, Steve.

I was deeply moved by Your commencement speech in Stanford as I am when I watch it today …

Happy New Year 2009!

Christian — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:59:44 +0000

Happy New Year to everybody out there!

Free Burma!

Christian — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:02:33 +0000

There are moments, you have to pause for a moment, look up from your daily work and let the incidents get close to you.
Bloggers from Italy started a campaign to turn the attention of us all to the freedom movement in Burma. Form their first idea, a worldwide campaign started:

One day, jointly only one posting for the Free Burma! Movement in every blog – and then silence.
One day, jointly taking our hat off to the victimes of the resistance against the military dictatorship.
One day, jointly buoy up the suppressed and point out our solidarity.
One day, jointly exert pressure on the governments of this world to take a firm stand against the murdering military regime and take action for freedom and democracy. For example by resolving a clear and strong resolution in the United Nations Security Council.
One day, jointly recognize us as a global political power and giving the cry for freedom, for democracy and self-determination in Burma a strong voice.

All of us, as freedom- and democracy-loving citizen of the world, we should see this as a push to get engaged: Against suppression, against violence, against dictatorships. And for the people – far beyond this day. And even far beyond Burma.

A very warm thank you to all of you out there, who made this campaign happen. Especially Robert Basic.

More information on http://www.free-burma.org
… and a touching Free-Burma-Cut-Together on Youtube
… and a shocking report at Spiegel-Online "They Come at Night and Murder the Monks"

codedifferent blog mission

Christian — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:44:14 +0000

What’s behind codedifferent? What is the mission of that blog?
… it’s a tricky question and that’s why there is no one-sentence mission statement:
Besides the creatives, the Mac attracted more and more developers after switching to the UNIX-based Mac OS X and to the Intel-CPU based hardware. There are tons of tools for designers, marketers, scriptwriters or for all that classical office work. But what about those who do not only want to develop some graphics for the web, but program databases, servers and their communication?
This is where I’m trying to merge and share knowledge, news and experiences at codedifferent:
What is Apple doing, not called apple computers any more? What are the handy tools to realize your own vision – or to make things easier? What to do with your iPod besides listening to music?
But besides the lust for great user experience and GUIs … codedifferent is also focusing on mobile business. Not an easy issue, but since the "classical" web business is transformed to web 2.0 things start to move in that slowly innovating industry. Let’s be honest: Mobile business today still means: personal telephone-lines in your pocket, ring tones and especially in Europe: SMS. Period! That’s mobile business. Or, to be precise: That was mobile business, because, after all these marketing disasters like the market entry of UMTS or WAP, things change. That’s why the field of mobile business and web 2.0 is a naturally part of codedifferent.
But the most important part of codedifferent is the man or woman at the other end of the communication channel. It’s you! And it’s great to share knowledge, experiences and news with an active – and interactive – community.
So don’t just consume – interact!