Wednesday, July 19, 2006 9:26 PM | rahel luethy | 2 comment(s)

white noise

it's been quite difficult to get filipa to sleep lately. luckily, we've discovered that busting out the hairdryer is one last option when everything else fails. appareantly, she's not alone with her love for white noise. maybe we should opt for a hairdryer.mp3, considering that wayne has already burnt out a couple of dryers, let alone our energy bill...

Sunday, July 16, 2006 7:38 AM | rahel luethy | 0 comment(s)

the rebirth of willi

the latest issue of das magazin features the story of willi, who works at a ski hire in his hometown of tannenboden, flumserberg. one day willi goes to samoa and gets a tatoo. it takes the samoan master 14 days to scratch it into willi's skin. willi almost dies but now has a new life story.

i believe the meaning of life is when the questions stop coming

wilhelm beeler, das magazin nr. 28

the same article has been published in english earlier this year.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006 6:30 PM | rahel luethy | 0 comment(s)

eclipse launch configuration command line

for testing purposes, it is sometimes necessary to run certain java apps outside of your IDE, i.e. from the command line. if they require complicated classpaths and fancy arguments, you might want to reuse the configuration that you've already set up in your IDE. in eclipse, you can access the command line used for a certain configuration via the Debug view. while your application is running, simply use the context menu on the process in question, and select Properties...