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My friend Hugo arrived in Rostock two days ago, so we had a nice time here enjoying the sunny spring-day. To share the impressions with you, here are some pictures.

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After the release of the completely rewritten version of Virtual Identity I had a lot of feedback, some bug-reports and also some good suggestions how to make more out of the potential from the extension. Therefore I decided to change small parts of the extension in the last days, and now the new preview is ready. It still misses the translation, I’ll post it on babelzilla.org to let it localized. Else it should be completely working, so please feel free to download the pre-release 0.4.1pre, test it and give some feedback.
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Berlin, what a town, what a trip. I spended one week there and at all I really liked it. Just meat nice people in my ‚Kiez‘, enjoyed the early spring in the town and went to a lot of parties. Not to forget that I meat Hugo – the one I spended some weeks one a motorbike with – who came over from India on the 2nd of April. And he enjoyed Germany and especially German food too 😉

But after a week it’s time to go back to Rostock, just to enjoy the whole life a little easier. So, enjoy some impressions from my trip by clicking on the images, I’m looking forward to Hugo’s arrival in my hometown. If the weather is good enough, you will find some pictures of us laying on the beach and swimming in the blue Baltic sea here soon.

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strange town, strange maps… Last Friday I went to a nice party in Berlin, and this party was in the „Rigaer Strasse“, where a lot of former squatted houses are located. Since years they all have contracts, but the gentrification process initiated years ago by renovating all the houses in the area gives the locals a lot of pressure. Rents for flats are continuously rising, and poorer people have to move out of the area to other, to cheaper places.

Thats why people announced an action weekend to protest against gentrification. After a demonstration in the afternoon a lot of parties went on in this area and people used the spring evening to sit on the streets . The nights are still cold, at some point some of them started to make a fire. Maybe in the middle of the street, maybe not, I have no idea. But actually this was the time when the police joined the event. In the location I was I just heard the bartender saying ‚all out, police is coming‘ and outside police in riot-gear came running trough the streets trying to catch anybody who might be claimed for whatever responsible later.

They didn’t arrested me, that’s something. But Germany and and especially Berlin showed me his ugly police-face once again. Oh, the map. Yes, it shows you under the title ‚burning barricades‘ symbolically the problems I have with this town.

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nun wohn ich schon ne weile in Rostock, aber ich wollte doch mal schauen, wie ich morgen (am besten mit der Fähre?) vom Kabutzenhof (eine Seite der Warnow) nach Gehlsdorf (andere Seite der Warnow) komme. Also fix bei der Bahn geschaut, Fahrradmitnahme ausgewählt und folgendes unschlagbares Angebot bekommen:

Genau, ich könnt ja zu Fuß gehen. Anderthalb Stunden. Dummerweise wollte ich 10.30 ankommen und leider kann ich nur so mit dem Service der Bahn zu Fuß gehen, dass ich erst 10.40 da bin. Aber vielleicht trick’s ich die Bahn aus – Fahrradmitnahme ist schliesslich möglich – und steig auf mein Fahrrad und bin einfach 10Minuten schneller? Oder ich schau einfach mal nach Angeboten von der Konkurrenz?

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just looked at the online-portal of the german train service how to go with a ferry from one side of the river Warnow to the other (they usually have this information). Cause I liked to carry my bike, I checked the appropriate button and searched. Result: under the title „Traveling spontaneous and saving money“ they offered me to walk there. It’s only a one and a half our walk. But the worse thing is, I have to be there at 10.30 (so thats what I searched for), but there seems to be only a scheduled walk which arrives there at 10.40, so I can’t even take this one. And I’m not sure if it’s allowed to use my bike to be a little faster… So, I’ll keep you informed if there are any offers from concurrent companies.

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Now it’s done, after 5 years of waiting I decided to publish the research results of a research-group, which I was part of between 1998 and 2000 at the Free University of Berlin, in the Internet. Originally it was planned to provide a printed publication, however it did not come so far till now. And it does not look like this publication will be realized at all.

During the research process everybody mentioned the importance of these research data to the scientific community, but for 5 years these results are rested on a lonely harddrive. Today this has an end, I published the “Digital Data Compendium Regional School Development Berlin Brandenburg 1920/45 1995” hereby in version 1.0. The data compendium is completely in German, but if you are familiar with the German school history you might use this compendium as well. If you are using the compendium, please consider the license notes, if you are not able to translate those please get in contact with me.

• online-version of the data compendium
• download as an archive to extract on your harddrive
  • dhb_1.0.tar.bz2 [41MByte]
  • dhb_1.0.zip [69MByte]
• download as an ISO-Image to burn it on CD
  • dhb_1.0.iso.tar.bz2 [41MByte]
  • dhb_1.0.iso.zip [55MByte]
  • md5-Checksum of ISO-Image

If you have any questions, suggestions or comments, feel free to contact me.

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what a long story 😉 but to make it short, I finally released the data compendium about school history on my own. Seven years after the project is finished, five years after the digital version and the print-version (except some 20pages from the project leader) were ready, I waited till it might had been published by the project leader, Prof. Peter Drewek. But this didn’t happen, and I lost the hope that it might be released to the scientific community years ago.

But I had the finished digital version of this data compendium on my hard drive and I was told so often that this data is unique worldwide, describing school history in such a detail for around 100 years. That’s why I decided to publish the whole thing on my own in the Internet. To finally finish this project and give the work of all people, who participated over six years in this project any sense. And not at least to publish the empirical references of my PhD-work, which is by now also 3 years old.

So, if you are interested in school history and not afraid of 2600 structured data sheets of empirical data, have a look at http://dhb.absorb.it (and just excuse, it’s all in German there.)

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So, spring is here, and you might have realized that outside this virtual world the colors are coming back. This is reason enough to switch back this blog to it’s former grey state. Get out of your house if you lik to see more colors!

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What a beautiful spring… first warm days in Germany and I used the chance with some friends for a short trip to a nature reserve at an peninsula nearby called Darß. Nice place, great that the weather is getting better now – this get’s me out hopefully of my home more often…

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So much about google earth/maps, so much about reality. Wasn’t enough to hear about the possibility to identify people or camels or whatever, but this is what makes it really the image of the new century.

But since this image it is absolutely clear, that no terrorist at all who is able to use google maps (and you know how easy this is) will miss his missile. What about privacy, maybe the one who owns this missile wasn’t giving him the permission to look at any spectral prints (like images) of this object?

And who the hell likes to make this place as his default location…

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