By Tom Wellige on Mittwoch, 30. Januar 2008 13:02
Yesterday Martin posted a link to a panorama view of the As this is already quite impressive there some other panorama views from the interior available But I have to admit, that I like the cockpit view most ;-) Allthough there are lots of switches and screens it doesn't seem too complicated to handle once you know a little bit about how to fly jets. That's something you can teach yourself within MS Flight Simulator. Well, at least theoretical and/or simulated.
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By Tom Wellige on Dienstag, 29. Januar 2008 15:14
Sorry, the following is available in german language only. 29.01.2008 Pressemitteilung
"Winterhilfe Afghanistan" Im Westen und Norden Afghanistans herrscht seit Wochen einer der kältesten und schneereichsten Winter seit Jahrzehnten. Hundertausende Menschen - vor allem Kinder - sind vom Hunger- und Kältetod bedroht. Die Mintrachinger "Kinderhilfe Afghanistan" hat daher eine umfassende Hilfsaktion gestartet. Afghanische Mitarbeiter der "Kinderhilfe Afghanistan" transportieren seit gestern mit geländegängigen LKW 15 Tonnen Hilfsgüter, insbesondere Nahrungsmittel, Winterbekleidung und festes Schu ...
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By Tom Wellige on Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 23:03
A little bit late for a lazy friday afternoon in the office, but not too late for the next week  Have you ever played "Rock Paper Scissors" (Schnick-Schnack-Schnuck) ? Here you will find some professional hints to make sure you will become the champion in your office ! |
By Tom Wellige on Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2008 09:27
What are we going to do once all existing silicon on the world is already used in our computers ? Well, one possible solution would be to go back to the good old vaccum tubes. This at least would give us the chance to build our computers by our own again instead of using all this highly integrated stuff. You don't believe it ? Check out this ! Ok, you're right, one would need silicon for the glass bulb of the vaccum tube as well... But the video is really amazing, isn't it ?
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By Tom Wellige on Dienstag, 8. Januar 2008 12:59
As Morten has moved into the norwegian wilderness (no phone, no dsl, no tv) it is up to me to post his fun-blogs every once in a while... Well, this is not a fun link but a very nice and informative one: the Sience Education Company. Here you will find lots of videos with simple but astonishing sience experiments like how to make an emergency glass from a leaf.
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By Tom Wellige on Samstag, 22. Dezember 2007 11:48
From Ian's posting in the forum you might have noticed that Morten and I do not have many hairs populating our fabulous heads. Clearly speaking: we are getting bald ! But we are in good company. Many great men have been or still are bald as well. One of my favourite actors is bald as well, so lets listen to what he is saying about baldness (and he is also able to talk about it in the 24th century): Patrick Stewart on "Baldness" The Swyx Forum Team, that is me (Tom) and Morten wishes all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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By Tom Wellige on Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2007 11:55
Remember ? The other day I linked two videos here in my blog that could lead to the conclusion that education is not one of the strongest attributes of the US. The first video showed a blond girl in a TV show assuming that Europe is a country. The second video showed a guy playing around with statistics on how clever americans are (or not). Well, especially the last one could have been biased as it was just the voice of one strange guy. So, is it true what he said ? Are americans dumb as hell ? Americans are NOT stupid  Read More »
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By Tom Wellige on Montag, 10. Dezember 2007 18:54
100% ... This is a strictly mathematical viewpoint... it goes like this:
What makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wondered about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life? Here'sa little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:
If
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
then
H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%
and
K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E< ...
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By Tom Wellige on Freitag, 7. Dezember 2007 09:44
(Sorry, the following is in german language available only!) Die Kinderhilfe Afghanistan, welche durch Teile der bisher eingenommenen Sponsoren Gelder durch Swyx Forum unterstützt wird, hat eine Zusammenfassung ihrer Aktivitäten im Jahr 2007 zur Verfügung gestellt:
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By Tom Wellige on Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2007 07:57
... you find this on your desk in the morning: 
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By Tom Wellige on Samstag, 1. Dezember 2007 11:43
Some kind of ignorance of knowledge can't be related to certain countries of the word, allthough it most definately looks like... But listening to youngsters in a bus or underground (in the USA, in Germany, in the UK, in France, ...) really get's you scared of the upcoming generation and what they will be with the world ! Stupidity is not related to a certain country but is a result of the way we are living today, of the mass media, the gaming industry, MTV, or what ever. The following is a really nice example. Maybe there are some relations between "not knowing" (not to say "stupidity") and the color of the hair ... |
By Tom Wellige on Freitag, 30. November 2007 13:06
While reading myself through a couple of articles on the most hip CMS systems I found a very usefull site which compares all currently availalbe systems in a matrix. This site is maybe also of interest for you, so here is the link: (BTW: Swyx Forum uses DotNetNuke as CMS)
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By Tom Wellige on Freitag, 30. November 2007 08:18
Some time ago the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has started to release their lectures/courses to the public as so called OpenCourseWare. The idea behind is to open up the world of today's knowledge to everyone. There are more than 1800 course available online, many of them translated into other languages or even available as audio/video presentations. The content of the courses touch a huge variety of topics from Architecture and Planning, Engineering, Health Sciences and Technology, Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Management and Science (Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Chemistry, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Mathematics Physics). The MIT has also just laucnhed a program to deliver special courses for high school pupils. If you are interested in any of the above mentioned topics it is worth a look !
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By Tom Wellige on Montag, 26. November 2007 15:26
After my vacation is over and my evenings and weekends are fully booked my hoster finished setting up the root server for Swyx Forum. Setting up DotNetNuke (incl. database) is up to me, but this will take some time now  Actually there was a reason why I ordered the server one week before my two-weeks vacation... Anyway, there is a light at the end of the tunnel now 
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By Tom Wellige on Montag, 26. November 2007 15:05
Yesterday I found myself in a time machine boosting me back in time into the year 1991. It was the year where I had to do my 12 month military service at the german navy. I was sonar operator on a so called mine hunter. We searched see mines (ground mines) by using sonar and then used a small remote controlled submarine to dop a bomb directly beside the mine to simply destroy it.
In 1990 Sadam Hussein invaded Kuwait and dropped hundreds of mines into the persian gulf as a barrier to make sure no military vessel or oil tanker was able to approach Kuwait.
A number of NATO countries as also germany sent their mine seachers / hunters down into the gulf to get rid of these mines. During this time I was stationed on the MHC Koblenz (M1 ...
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By Tom Wellige on Donnerstag, 22. November 2007 14:44
Randall has just started his new project Swyx WebCDR. It is a web based CDR (Call Detail Record) tool. Please take a look onto the project pages for more details. The current version is written in PHP (Apache Webserver) but we are also looking to provide an ASP (Microsoft IIS Webserver) version. So, if your are willing to help on this, feel free to join the team !
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By Tom Wellige on Sonntag, 18. November 2007 13:07
Ok, Morten has promised that I will write about my norwegian experiances, so here they are. At least in terms of "having a traditional norwegian dinner". Friday night we went out to a quite nice fish restaurant in the newly build shopping and restaurant area Aker Brygge in down town Oslo, directly at the harbour. The name of the restaurant was "Lofoten" which clearly indicated that we were not going to get some nice english style steak (if you don't know about the Lofoten you should read about them here). As I already promised weeks before to give taditional food a try the waiter didn't provided me with a menu. In fact most of us (we were nine people at all) skipped the part with the menu, except Morten and his wife, the other ...
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