Refactoring Life. Mercilessly. 2009-05-03T17:39:49+02:00 Hendrik Volkmer solaris@sundevil.de http://blog.hendrikvolkmer.de/ tag:blog.hendrikvolkmer.de,2008-10-01:1222859387 2008-10-01T13:09:47+02:00 <p>&#8230; not my own&#8230; well actually most of them are.</p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>helping other people helps me</li> <li>having guts always works out for me</li> <li>thinking life will be better in the future is stupid. i have to live now</li> <li>starting a charity is surprisingly easy</li> <li>being not truthful works against me</li> <li>everyting i do always comes back to me</li> <li>assuming is stifling</li> <li>drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on</li> <li>over time i get used to everything and start taking for granted</li> <li>money does not make me happy</li> <li>travelling alone is helpful for a new perspective on life</li> <li>keeping a diary supports personal development</li> <li>trying to look good limits my life</li> <li>material luxuries are best enjoyed in small doses</li> <li>worrying solves nothing</li> <li>complaining is silly. either act or forget</li> <li>actually doing the things I set out to do increases my overall level of satisfaction</li> <li>everybody thinks they are right</li> <li>low expectations are a good strategy</li> <li>whatever I want to explore professionally, its best to try it out for myself first</li> <li>everybody who is honest is interesting<br /> </blockquote><br /> by <a href="http://sagmeister.com/sagmeister.html">Stefan Sagmeister</a></li> </ul> <p>via [ <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/stefan_sagmeister_on_what_he_has_learned.html">Stefan Sagmeister: Things I have learned in my life so far</a> ]</p> tag:blog.hendrikvolkmer.de,2008-08-07:1218107387 2008-08-07T13:09:47+02:00 <p>And with  I might mean <a href="http://www.apple.com">Apple</a> or the fruit <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple">apple</a>.</p> <p>Ok. This entry is totally useless&#8230; I just wanted to use the  sign ;-) &#8211; Does that &#8220;&#8221; even look like an Apple on windows machines? Is it a UTF-8 character?</p> <p><b>Update</b>:<br /> Apparently it&#8217;s the unicode character 63743 in the <a href="http://sitening.com/extras/utf-8-character-html-encoding/">UTF-8 private space</a>. And it depends on the font if it really gets displayed as &#8220;the Apple apple&#8221;. Interesting.</p> tag:blog.hendrikvolkmer.de,2008-06-13:1213355387 2008-06-13T13:09:47+02:00 <p>Check this out:</p> <p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kTYiEkQYhWY&#38;hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kTYiEkQYhWY&#38;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /> <p><br /> [ via <a href="http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1075-bmws-fascinating-gina-light-visionary-model-design-study">SvN</a> ]</p> </p> tag:blog.hendrikvolkmer.de,2007-10-04:1191496187 2007-10-04T13:09:47+02:00 <p>This is an fantastic and yet very simple device: 64 buttons, 64 leds, no inside logic</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdu/133709235/"><img src="http://blog.hendrikvolkmer.de/assets/2007/10/4/monome_on_flickr.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p>If you want to know what you can do with it, check out the website of the <a href="http://monome.org">creators</a> or some of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=monome&amp;search=Search">youtube videos</a></p> <p>[via: <a href="http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/616-cool-design-detail-at-monome">37signals</a> ]</p> tag:blog.hendrikvolkmer.de,2007-03-11:1173611387 2007-03-11T12:09:47+01:00 <p>Amazing paper sculptures by <a href="http://www.jenstark.com/sculpture_01.html">Jen Stark</a>:</p> <p><img src="http://blog.hendrikvolkmer.de/assets/2008/4/30/PaperAnomaly.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>[via <a href="http://www.valuesofn.com/blog/2007/03/jens-starks-paper-sculptures.html">Valuesofn</a>]</p>