After installing Tiger, I must say two things:

1. The iTunes-widget for the dashboard doesn't work. It keeps telling me iTunes is not running, even though it is.
2. If you klick on "More Widgets" in the dashboard, you are taken to a url, which is password protected: "Restricted Area". What the fuck?

Also I am wondering why the price for Microsoft Office Mac 2004 increased from 149,-€ to 179,-€ on apple.de and 169,-€ on amazon.de. Apart from that: Hell yeah.

A very delightful movie

I know a lot of bloggers do podcasting: Record something they have to say and put the audio file onto their blogs. How silly. I don't even have a microphone. But to make sure you guys know what you would hear if you sat in a room next to me, I have found this video.

It helps me keep going these days, as I'm working 24/7...

"Nisch jeda traut sisch das!"

Aus gutem Grund! Ich glaube, es ist eigentlich garnicht möglich so zu verkacken, wie Elmo Emmo [1] [2] [3] verkackt hat. Und das als Südberliner. Schlimme Zeiten. Es war bestimmt nur die Aufregung. Bestimmt! Ich glaube ganz fest daran.

This is how I will look 40 years from now: Jannis at thte age of 65. Haha. At www.ifonlylifewasaspredictable.co.uk you can upload a photo and have a look at yourself in 10,20,30 years from now. You can also turn yourself into a female if you're male, or a male if you're female. And all the penis-enlargement-pills-customers can upload their foto and mark it female and then have their face transformed to a male again to look even maler. ;)

Now that you read this, pick a picture that shows you from the front with no glasses on. Upload it and leave a comment to let me see how you guys look when I look like on the picture above.

I was talking to Prof. Walter Vogler today, who helped me out on a paper I am preparing for one of his courses. But I also became more and more embarrassed each time he mentioned that I must have been using Microsoft Word to create the document we were talking about.

Yeah right. A computer science student using Word! Can't let this matter rest! I quickly grabbed TeXShop and i-installer to get LaTeX running on my mac.

Read into LaTeX a little and finally ended up using some koma scripts (I think) and converted my paper to LaTeX. Almost! While embedding some eps images I ran into a problem with epstopdf and Ghostscript 8, which were installed through i-installer:

EPSTOPDF 2.9.1draft, 2003/04/20 - Copyright 1998-2002 by Sebastian Rahtz et al.
!!! Error: Cannot open Ghostscript for piped input!

I couldn't figure out what the problem was and decided to just uninstall-reinstall Postscript8 with i-installer (these old windows-behavior-patterns had to pay off sooner or later ;), and it suddenly started to work. Weird, eh?

So anyways, how are you using LaTeX to create papers? Any nice templates, hints, no-nos for a LaTeX newbie?