For the Love of .. Physics

Brilliant, brilliant teacher/professor:

BSG: Blood & Chrome

Wow, I hadn't really noticed the BSG spinoff "Blood & Chrome", and that the webisodes are up on YouTube:

Possible but Pointless

"Ein Leben ohne Mops ist möglich, aber sinnlos." -- Loriot

Exclusive Buzzword Sh .. enanigans

Oh, I hate this buzzword bingo trying to make us customers pay a premium price for stuff you actually won't want or need:

• Exclusive Content
• Premium Access
• Season Pass
• ...

The same applies when reviewers uses the following to characterize a movie, book, etc.

• Instant Classic
• Cult Movie/Book 
• ...

And then there's the endless variation of the same story .. err movie.

• extended edition
• director's cut
• extended director's cut
• alternate endings
• additional footage
• definitive edition
• final version
• ... ad nauseum

I can't remember which director it was, who said that the cut/version he made for the movie will be the only the version. That this version is the director's cut. Good man, this director.

Can you think of a book which has the same kind of variations? Lord of the Rings -- the definitive version (with 3 extra chapters) or War and Peace -- the ultimate edition (with two alternate endings).

Little Lion Man

Engineering Failure

New Blogger Editor Enforced .. Grrr

The new editor for Blogger (Blogspot) has become mandatory since September 19th, 2012 .. again (like with the recent Firefox versions) a step backward. Why changing a working system, when the old one was (almost) perfect. Why is it not possible to update the editor where it is deemed necessary, why switching the whole editor? Things to hate in the new editor:

• You have to remove the link break option (br tags) for each post individually.
• The posting overview has now two lines for each post (feels like three), so the overview is just less efficient.
• Low, low contrast in most (all?) of the editor pages ...
• No filtering of posts except for clicking the label next to the post.
• ...

I am really considering switching to another blogging platform,  but after some tests it does some it's just too much work involved when moving all the existing (1800+) posts to WordPress (despite what WordPress will tell you). Some things I found quickly:

• Links are not converted completely (e.g. for internal references).
• Pictures are not aligned in the same way (compared to the original).
• Colors for fonts are transferred at all.

So I am stuck with this inferior piece of blogger s..oftware .. at least for the moment.

Switch Status Bar (Status-4-Evar)

After Firefox/Mozilla in its infinite wisdom decided to drop the status bar, I had to resort to using Status-4-Evar. From time to time the status bar for no apparent reason disappears and fiddling with the options of the add-on doesn't change a thing. But .. using CTRL + / brings it back to the front.