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...und so bin ich dieses Wochenende 47 Jahre alt geworden... Der Kopf sagt, ich fühl mich wie Anfang der 30er, der Körper meint, es könnte auch Ende der 30er sein. Egal, jedenfalls noch jung. Aber darum geht's mir hier gar nicht. Ich erinnere mich, da war doch was mit dieser Zahl... Jedenfalls, wenn man die Ausfahrt 47 von der Interstate 10 im Raum Los Angeles nimmt (was ich heuer gemacht habe),…
In den letzten paar Monaten habe ich (mit einem Kollegen) ein neues Unternehmen unter dem Namen Trade Post 47 aufgebaut. Während wir es uns als eine kleine Raumstation im Orbit eines schönen Planeten vorstellen, wird es für die meisten Menschen als Handelsunternehmen für Science-Fiction-Merchandise gesehen werden, mit einem Online-Shop sowie Ständen bei Veranstaltungen wie lokalen Comic-Cons in…
In the last few months, I have been building up a new business called Trade Post 47 . While we envision it as a little space station in orbit of a nice planet, to most people it will be a science fiction merchandise trading company, with an online shop and booths at events like local Comic-Cons in Central Europe, especially in Austria. If you want to learn more, we have put up a complete page…
After some behind-the-scenes discussions with Michael Kohler on what I could contribute at this year's FOSDEM, I ended up doing a presentation about my personal Suggestions for a Stronger Mozilla Community (video is available on the linked page). While figuring out the points I wanted to talk about and assembling my slides for that talk , I realized that one of the largest issues I'm seeing is…
tl;dr: Happy 23rd birthday, Mozilla. And for the question: yes. Here's a bit more rambling on this topic... First of all, the Mozilla project was officially started on March 31, 1998, which is 23 years ago today. Happy birthday to my favorite "dino" out there! For more background, take a look at my Mozilla History talk from this year's FOSDEM, and/or watch the "Code Rush" documentary that…
As mentioned in a previous post , I've been working with the Capacity Blockchain Solutions team on the Crypto stamp project, the first physical postage stamp with a unique digital twin, issued by the Austrian Postal Service (Österreichische Post AG). After a successful release of Crypto stamp 1, one of our core ideas for a second edition was to represent stamp albums (or stamp collections) in the…
The FOSDEM conference in Brussels has become a bit of a ritual for me. Ever since 2002, there has only been a single year of the conference that I missed, and any time I was there, I did take part in the Mozilla devroom - most years also with a talk, as you can see on my slides page. This year, things were a bit different as for obvious reasons the conference couldn't bring together thousands of…
Last year, I worked with the Capacity team on the Crypto stamp project, the first physical postage stamp with a unique digital twin, issued by the Austrian Postal Service (Österreichische Post AG). Those stamps are mainly intended as collectibles, but their physical "half" can be used as valid postage on packages or letters, and a QR code on that physical stamp links to a website presenting the…
Ever since I was on a tour to Star Trek filming sites in 2016 with Geek Nation Tours and Larry Nemecek , I've become ever more interested in finding out to which actual real-world places TV/film crews have gone "on location" and shot scenes for our favorite on-screen stories. While the background of production of TV and film is of interest to me in general, I focus mostly on everything Star Trek…
I've been meaning to blog again for some time, and just looked in disbelief at the date of my last post. Yes, I'm still around. I hope I get to write more often in the future. Ludo just posted his thoughts on FOSDEM , which I also attended last weekend as a volunteer for Mozilla. I have been attending this conference since 2002, when it first went by that exact name, and since then AFAIK only…