Jan 15 2005

Programming languages I know

René Samselnig
Image showing logo of Ruby

Last weekend I began to learn Ruby. First I added a search engine for my book collection tool called Alexandria. I like the syntax, it’s much like python or perl, though I don’t like perl that much. Ruby seems to me a really neat language and I began to port my mkmovie tool to that language. Then I thought about a list of languages I already know, but I never made one. This should be the list, whether it is complete I’m not aware of – I’m happy I remember these ;) Continue reading



Jan 14 2005

My books of 2004

René Samselnig

This is a more or less complete list of books I read in 2004. Shame on me it is not as long as I wanted it to be… Most of the english books on the list are from Ireland – I brought a whole lot more books with me, but wasn’t able to read them all! I’m trying to do that in the next few month. Continue reading



Jan 12 2005

Canon EOS 300D – Digital Rebel

René Samselnig

I was never that much interested in taking pictures with a digital camera. You don’t have that good quality (cheap lenses, chip, …) and almost everything is done automatically. My father had an old SLR camera that I liked most – so I planned for a long time I wanted to have a digital SLR camera. When I saw the 300D I didn’t like it much at first sight – because it was silver. But I changed my mind after some time – and bought it! Continue reading



Jan 12 2005

iPod shuffle

René Samselnig

“Wow!” was what I thought as I saw this wonderful thing. I always wanted to have an iPod but didn’t want to invest that much. Now this is an USB-Stick with musicplayer – a good thing nowadays :) My actual USB-Stick has 128MB, which is not that much… This iPod shuffle has 512 or even 1024MB of Flash RAM! I’m really thinking about an iPod shuffle, though I don’t really need one. But who really needs one, hm? ;) The only disadvantage is it doesn’t have a display, but at that size it’s not that bad – you couldn’t read it anyway ;) Now I’m having a hard time arguing with myself… Continue reading