My girlfriend is always right...

And the strange thing is that there is no contradiction to the fact that I am right at the same time. Well, the actual problem is: She is right in her reality and I am in mine.

Writing free of distractions

If I write text I often use an editor. The formatting follows in a second step. I am a big fan of Notepad++ and I really enjoy the wide variety of features and ways to handle data.

And then I discovered Bend. 

A very simple and distraction free interface, tabs, a great search feature and the best feature of all: it simple looks good and does all you need. For those of you who are not that much into writing: It also does syntax highlighting. But you should really have a look for yourself.

Bend

UPdate: Maybe the last post on distraction free writing you will ever read | stst.31415

Keeping up with blogging

The last few days were interesting. I did not write a post a day - as was my intention - but I made some really interesting notes on things I could write on. So why I am I writing on taking notes? Because today I realized that a lot of blog posts are never written.

Some due to laziness, some due to the thinking that it is everything else but interesting and some because the ideas for the post were never written down. So I keep on scribbling my notes and hope to surprise you in the next weeks. Definitely not daily, but I will do my best.

Froyo on HTC Desire

Finally the update arrived. Installation was easy and took 10 minutes only (without downloading the 90 MB). The features that struck me first were:

1. portable WLAN hotspot
2. Display can be turned 270° also
3. Applications can be installed to the SD-card

and finally

the language of the keyboard can be changed faster.

That is very important for me as I change from English to German and back. So far I could not make out any problems with applications. What about you?
If you wondered: I left out the flashlight application for a reason.

Update: Nearly everything that's changed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741491

What happened here in 1278?

There must have been a time when putting up monuments was a sports in Austria. I actually like this one. There is a middle ages festival in Dürnkrut (look it up in Wikipedia) on 14th/15th August like every year - do not miss it. It is part of the celebrations of the battle on the Marchfeld.