RaSchi’s Valhalla

I’ve been playing with the reborn Gna for a couple of days now. Warnings that I received about the low battery life seem to have no reason so far. Two days of operations including Bluetooth being active most (if not all) of the time, several not too short WiFi browsing sessions and some application installations […]

For a couple of weeks already I had some trouble with Gna’s touch screen. It seemed to send it’s controller the signal as if someone touched the lower right corner of it (where the battery indicator is located). Thus the backlight of the screen was switched on and depending on the lock being applied or […]

I read about this over at Basic Thinking and thought it looks quite nice. If you want to test the speed of your internet, this is very neatly designed application. And yes, it does remember your IP address and gives you a history of past tests run from that IP (of course, if you are […]

Mal wieder ein Beitrag auf Deutsch, denn wer kein Deutsch versteht, der ist ohnehin nicht betroffen.
Letzte Woche kam eine Reportage über Deutsche in der Schweiz auf SF 1 dem ersten Kanal des Schweizer Fernsehens. Als die Ankündigung im Fernsehen kam, wollte ich’s mir eigentlich gern ansehen, aber hatte dann doch etwas Anderes vor. Vorgestern hat […]

There’s a new toy in RaSchi’s home :-). Back then, while in college in Paderborn, we played foosball quite a lot. Later on, I kind of lost track of it, just until recently when I saw a special offer at ALDI Sü. As usual, there were only very few items in store and I didn’t […]