Christian’s Blog
Just returned from a 2 weeks trip to Japan with Judith, Conny, Ben and David. David will stay in Kyoto to study there for 6 months.
Well, we had a lot of fun and took a lot of photos. 
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| 2009-08 – Tokyo |
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| 2009-08 – Nikko |
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| 2009-09 – Sendai |
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| 2009-09 – Kyoto & Kobe |
The exclusive 4 minute extended version of the moment 13,500 people spontaneously sang Hey Jude together in Trafalgar Square. Everyone involved arrived thinking they could be dancing – no-one had any idea how the event would unfold.
There are some more T-Mobile dancing-comercials in their Youtube channel.
Got the Domain Map via the United Domains promotion today. Great quality! Thanks United Domains! (But I will stay with Host Europe 
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| From 2009-03-23 – United Domains Map |
United Domains is currently running a promotion where everyone who sets a backlink to their website, receives a large format domain world map. As that would probably fit well into my office, I am taking part.
More information about the promotion can be found here.
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I spent another weekend in Zuerich with Judith. On Friday night we went to “Kino am Berg” (Cinema at the Mountain). It’s a restaurant on the Uetliberg which serves 3 course dinner with swiss cheese fondue. Afterwards you stay at the normal restaurant area and can watch a movie. On Friday they showed Kiterunner, which is a really great movie.
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
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| 2009-02-27 – Kino am Berg (Zuerich) |
On Saturday, we visited the zoo of Zuerich. It was interesting to see many of the animals in snow although they originally come from areas on the world where they would have never seen any snow. I am wondering whether that is really good for them. Especially kangaroos in snow is strange. At least for the seals we were told, that they are “weather resistent” and do not have problems staying outside. But that is pretty obvious if you think about their skin.
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| 2009-02-28 – Zuerich Zoo |
After a day of home improvement in Judith’ apartment yesterday, we walked the city today. It’s a beautiful place…
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| 2009-02-15 – Zuerich |
Created a very simple widget for the Mac OS X Dashboard which lets you specify a text file which contents are displayed in a text box and reloaded every time Dashboard is opened. Any changes in the text box are written back to the text file when the dashboard is closed.
I am using it in combination with Dropbox to realize synchronized ToDo and Notes lists on multiple Macs.
Simple Text File Widget is available here.
While searching for a good solution to organize any kind of notes, documents and other pieces of information, I stumbled upon Yojimbo from Bare Bones Software (and a friend also recommended it). Information from the Yojimbo website:
Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible. Its so simple, there is no learning curve. Yojimbo’s mechanism for collecting, storing and finding information is so natural and effortless, it will change your life, without changing the way you work.
There are as many uses for Yojimbo as there are users of it. It accepts almost anything — text, bookmarks, PDF files, web archives, serial numbers, passwords, or images — by dragging, copying, importing or even printing. You can get anything out of Yojimbo you put into it, too, in its original form. There’s no lock-in, export any time.
Especially the encryption feature sounds great:
Yojimbo helps you protect the privacy of your sensitive information, by providing easy to use encryption. This encryption is used automatically for Password items, and you may also choose to use it (on a per-item basis) for Notes, PDFs, and Web Archives.
Yojimbo uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (US FIPS PUB 197) algorithm, with a 256-bit key (AES-256).
But after some testing, it looks as if the contents of encrypted notes are still available as plaintext in Yojimbo’s database file:
Am I missing anything or is the encryption feature more or less nonsense?
Update January 15:
Reply from Yojimbo Support
Thanks for writing in; we appreciate your interest in Yojimbo, and I apologize for the delay in getting back to you.
The specific behavior you show is expected. When you encrypt a note (or other prexisting item), its contents are removed from the database, but remnants of that info may be visible in the disk file until the space is reclaimed by sqlite (CoreData).
Any info added after you’ve encrypted an item, will be stored only in an encrypted form, unless you subsequently choose to decrypt the item. (Viewing is a transient process which does not affect the state of the data on disk.)
I hope this answers your question, but if you have any further questions, or if we can otherwise be of assistance, please let us know.
