But I discovered (or merely googled) a small tool which prevents your Mac from activating the screensaver, dimming down the screen or even going to sleep: Caffeine. Trust me, you need this tool.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Another link which emphasizes the above quote comes from one of the Github founders, Chris Wanstrath, who gave a keynote at Ruby Hoedown. Time to look at my github account again and devote some hours to some projects (anyone in need of a OpenStreetMap -> Shape-File converter?).

I can’t name them either.

But I’m working on it, even if I actually don’t want to. Today I discovered one of them.

I’m impatient. I guess I’ve always been. When I was still a kid, not too young anymore, I knew where my mum hid my christmas presents. I did have a look at some of them, not all, but some. That didn’t annul the joy when I actually got them, because I know what was lying under the christmas tree (again, not all of them, I didn’t unpack them or so).

I was also one of the guys who where quite unhappy when it came to the mid of summer because I knew school was still not going to start for a long time. And I guess I’m a doer. I was never one of those guys who was passive at school, who waited for other students to say something or to act. I wanted to show what I can do and I did.

Now I’m no longer a student, but an employee. And it makes me quite nervous to see what our competition did while we were talking about what we might can do. I wanna build things, I wanna do something, I wanna make progress, actively.

I guess that’s also one of my flaws in my personal life (well, no, I do know that it is a flaw). I can’t wait for things to happen, I need them to happen, I want to influence them and just can’t wait for it). Why do I write all that? Well, because I guess things are changing here. And I can only wait and see. Which makes me uncomfortable and pretty much puzzled.

Hpricot::XChar::PREDEFINED_U.merge!({" " => 32})

Ahm, okay. I didn’t see any changes made to the overall layout of Hpricot so I suspect that line should work. Any ideas?

(If anyone is interested in the meaning of the above line, check this ticket).

I guess the problem lies within the color profile, which is some self configured one and not sRGB (well, at least that’s what I found out while doing some 2-minute research).

• The Google Channel I really like their Tech Talk clips, featuring Linus Torvalds talking about git, the Google maps clips, etc.
• Sketchup Channel That software is amazing! Its so easy to use and yet you can make such good models (I can remember the time when I started learning Blender).
• Randy Pausch - Last Lecture That lecture is really a must-see. It’s so moving and positive.

I stumbled over Rory McCann’s python-osm lib over at Github. His version was missing the relation feature of the osm data structure but it was a one minute walk to implement it.

You can access the forked project @Github.

I’m asking because I’ve seen this photo on Flickr yesterday and he’s using a Sharpie Extra Fine Point Marker. It might be a marker I really enjoy (how strange sounds that!?)

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