Michael's Public Blog

I’m a newlywed!

Michael — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:00:00 +0000

Bachelor’s party is over, from now on I live a riliable, earnest and future-oriented life with my wife! All joking aside, what I really want to tell you is that last Saturday we and our guests had a wonderful day celebrating our marriage. I’m glad all you guys have been there!

If you’re interested in what’s been going on and how beautiful my (now) wife looked in her wedding gown (let alone me in my suit!) visit our page @ familiehof.info.

I am Legend… HTC Legend

Michael — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:00:00 +0000

12 hours left to Legend-time… HTC Legend precisly! Some days ago I decided to get rid of my Windows Mobile-driven phone, the HTC Touch Pro (a.k.a. T-Mobile MDA Vario IV in Germany). To be honest, the problem for sure is not the phone hardware itself – in fact I like the sliding-out hardware keyboard – but the operating system: Windows Mobile.

Factory-default of the HTC Touch Pro was Windows Mobile v6.1 with additional finger-friendly HTC TouchFLO 3D technology, customized by T-Mobile to match their corporate identity color. This user interface, which hides the standard Windows Mobile UI, is the only software element that can be used without the stylus. It is exactly this fact and the sometimes more than slow usability that annoy me the most. Even an update to Windows Mobile v6.5 didn’t really saitsfy my desire for an easy to use smartphone. If your colleagues with their Apple iPhones are sliding smoothly from one screen to the next barely touching the screen surface at all (say Hello to capacitive touchscreens!) and you by yourself are fighting against the self-will of the resistive one (ever tried to scroll through a contact list with more than 400 items withou accidently selecting one of them?) really increases your inclination towards aggression.

Final solution: I need a new phone! Descision was made for the benefit of the HTC Legend, a brand new Android-based smartphone. According to recent reviews this one and of course even more its “big brother” HTC Desire are real competitors to Apple’s iPhone series.

Long story short: DHL will deliver the packet on Saturday morning… forgive them god if not!!

Update:

10 o’clock on Saturday morning… no delivery so far. Damn! [superemotions file="icon_evil.gif" title="Evil"]

Update 2:

Phone arrived on Monday morning… whole weekend for playing around with that thing lost. Shame on DHL!

How projects REALLY work

Michael — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:00:00 +0000

Currently at work I spend most of my time in project management. Sometimes that cartoon reads like a mirror of my day. If you like it (for sure you will if your daily business concerns project life cycle) visit projectcartoon.com, they have a whole bunch of variations available in their gallery.

Download this cartoon as a printable A4-sized PDF here.

And of course… don’t forget about the six phases of a project:

Enthusiasm
Disillusionment
Panic
Search for the guilty
Punishment of the innocent
Praise and honors for the non-participants

Still not enough? Watch Dilbert:

New section: World Wide News

Michael — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:00:00 +0000

Check out my new section World Wide News. You will find a collection of nice RSS feeds I consider to be interesting to read every day (serveral times a day, to be honest).

Say what…? Of all things I forgot YOUR favourite feed? Use the comments, give me a hint!

Click here to visit my new section!

Getting married

Michael — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:12:03 +0000

“Ja, ich will” … on July 10th these will be the three words which will make me share my life, family name and money with the girl I have been in love with for the last 6 years now. And yes, I’m more than happy! No regrets [superemotions file="icon_wink.gif" title="Wink"]

All those preparations for the “big day” easily fill a blog itself, so we simply set up another one for this special purpose. Please visit http://www.familiehof.info for more news & stories about our journey to marriage.

C U there!