Mike Fraga

Discovery Bay where I live has quite a selection of fun people and characters. One of them is our Car-Loan King Mike Fraga. He just forwarded me his latest masterpiece in advertising, which should be Academy Award-nominated shortly. I'd say Mike should just drop the whole car-selling stuff and start a comedy club (with the girls, of course). I'd be the first one at the door.

FON

Finally got a confirmation for my FON preconfigured router offered at the 'first 3000' rate of 25 bucks. It's been 3 weeks that I had signed up for it, and I almost thought that the company had gone up in smoke already -- which would have been a real bummer since the concept behind FON is rather unique. But it seems they're just a tad overwhelmed by the demand that was created after their investment announcement. The confirmation mail says to wait another 2-3 weeks for the preconfigured WiFi AP to actually get shipped here.
My thing to do is to convince Steve and Ken to install those things around their restaurants in the Delta. Wireless boating on the Delta -- here we come.

Yet another way

to look at crappy web pages. Click here to come back(works only in IE?) after following the link above.

Madonna & GorillaZ @ Grammy awards

I guess mainstream media got ahold mash-up's: it made the Grammy's in the form of a Gorillaz vs. Madonna mash. The Gorillaz are a completely 'virtual' band, Madonna is real (well, mostly). Not that I'm a big Madonna fan, but the Gorillaz part rocks (here is the 'Gorillaz: Feel Good, Inc.' and the'Clint Eastwood live' videos).
Some new influx for the stale state of affairs in the music industry -- but as usual they're too stupid to realize whats happening. The video of the Grammy performance is from YouTube (the high-res version of the video above).

Wired News: 2005 Foot-in-Mouth Awards

Wired News: 2005 Foot-in-Mouth Awards

My other live

I started documenting Java(tm) in the RT/embedded world as I have seen it since 1999. I should have started this a long time ago, but its better now than never. Here is News for Embeded Java and Java in Real-Time Control!

Why Macs Suck

Funny Character!

Super Bowl Ads

The most important thing the Superbowl has to offer are the Super Bowl Commercials (simple minds like me watch the Super Bowl not for the game, but for the ads). In retrospect, they weren't too great besides the Fedex commercial.
By the way, who won the game?

Hentschel Mobile

So, I made me a cute little page for my cell phone (Opera Mini together with Google Mobile is just too cool to pass up). One nifty feature is the tide predictor for the California Delta, should make boating this summer a tad easier -- all you Delta Captains out there: no more excuses to get stuck at low tide and miss a party, go hit http://m.hentschel.net with your cell phone and check it out. (BTW: here is a nice little boating-how-to).

Beachparty in Vilsbiburg...

... with pictures in the 'Vilsbiburger Zeitung'.
Notable pics:

No. 58: Klaudia and Manuela

No. 101: Villa Hans and Peter