Category: Funstuff

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30 days of me - day 4

by kai on 12/09/2010

A habit I wish I didn't have... I would love to say there's nothing and I'm perfect - but I know that some people would right away come up with something along those lines: "Kai's a smart-ass and thinks he knows more about XYZ (insert a random topic here) than everyone else." Unfortunately there's some truth in that - I might show small tendencies of being a smart-ass sometimes. Not often though.…

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30 days of me - day 3

by kai on 11/09/2010

A picture of you and your friends... Ha, tricky one as I needed to actually dig through other people's iPhoto libraries to find pictures on which I am shown myself. Even more difficult if you have multiple circles of friends on different continents. So - I decided to go with three photos instead of one. But even those three by far don't show all the people I'd like to be in here (another…

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30 days of me – day 2

by kai on 10/09/2010

Today is about the meaning and the heritage of the name of this blog. Back in 2003 Marcus (AgentM) and I were both working at msg at.NET - a Macromedia Solution Partner in Germany at that time. I was mainly doing CF and Java and Marcus was the resident Spectra guru (the whole Flex and AIR stuff was still in it's early childhood days back then). There was pretty much no one blogging about…

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30 days of me - day 1

by kai on 09/09/2010

Ok, today I'm supposed to post a recent picture of me and 15 interesting facts about myself. Great. Gosh, how do I start. Maybe with the photo... That's how recent it gets. It shows me and a reasonably annoyed @karoricat. Now to the 15 random/interesting facts: 1. I grew up in a tiny tiny tiny village in the middle of nowhere in Germany and even though I enjoy being there for a few days I will…

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#30daysofme - here we go, day 0 (and day 1 later today :)

by kai on 09/09/2010

The #30daysofme hashtag virus is spreading among my friends quite badly at the moment, so that's how I got But hey - at least it forces me to get back to this blog more often for the next 30 days (at least). So - the idea is to go through the following list of questions in the next 30 days: Day 01- A recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself Day 02- The meaning behind your…

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I'm flying an AirNZ 777-200

by kai on 25/02/2010

Well, in a simulator, but still... :-) The next action item after being to the Engineering base was the 777-sim ride. Air NZ has two simulator and training buildings in the vicinity of Auckland Airport. The one that hosts the 777-200 simulator also houses a Q300 simulator (if I remember correctly), used by the regional subsidies of Air NZ, and a shiny new 777-300 simulator. The first actual…

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A visit at Air New Zealand's Engineering Base in Auckland

by kai on 24/02/2010

This is the second post about my awesome day on Monday. After @blauerpunto and I arrived in Auckland, Mark Farley from Air NZ picked us up at the air bridge. Mark is a Flight Service Manager with Air New Zealand but also does a lot of work on the ground. One of his projects is crew management, training and planning for a project Air NZ runs together with Hawaiian Airlines (more on that further…

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An awesome day with Air New Zealand

by kai on 23/02/2010

Yesterday, I had one of the most awesome days of my life. It would rate it right below the category comprising "Getting married to @blauerpunto" and "Getting permanent residency in New Zealand" and on a very similar level with stuff such as "Flying in a small airplane for the first time" and "Going solo in a small airplane for the first time". So - what happened? Let me briefly introduce you to…

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Webstock Trading Card Game - final wrap-up

by kai on 23/03/2009

This blogpost was sitting in a text file on my hard drive for quite a while now and I finally finished it last night. It's going to be the final wrap-up of the Webstock 09 trading card game, Minty and I've run at the conference. Besides pushing out the complete results table, I also want to go over a few statistics. The bandwith of the scores achieved by the players was 287 to 672.5. The median…

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Installing OS X on a Dell Mini 9

by kai on 10/03/2009

People who follow me on Twitter might have noticed that I was eagerly awaiting the delivery of a black Dell Mini 9 during the last 2 weeks. Finally I got it the other day and right away converted it into an OS X machine - who wants Windows XP on such a beautiful little netbook anyway? My configuration is: Black Dell Mini 9, 1 GB of RAM and the 16 GB solid state drive. Dell NZ just offers the…

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