By Wolf Paulus on Sunday, April 26th, 2009 • Category: [embedded]
The Fonera 2.0 just
became available in Europe (on April 21st) and is expected to arrive here in the US in May, making this the perfect time for taking a first look at the new 2.0 software.
I had gotten my hands on the
La Fonera 2.0 beta hardware back in December 2008 and had deployed an
OpenWrt 8.09 RC release soon there after, which was still on there. This meant that I needed to somehow
reflash the router with the new loader and firmware before I could see what the new Software was all about.
Anza-Borrego's Hellhole Canyon
Near the center of
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, the largest state park in California, lies
Hellhole Canyon. After 1.2 miles in, the walls of the canyon begin to close in and it seems a bit surprising to find a place where mosses, ferns, sycamores, and cottonwoods flourish around a small 20 feet waterfall,
Maidenhair Falls. View the entire set
here.
By Wolf Paulus on Sunday, March 08th, 2009 • Category: [life]
Growing up in Germany means being exposed to different foods than kids here in America. I still remember the jelly, my grandmother used to make from homegrown raspberries, we helped her pick in the garden.
Kids in Europe usually don't know much about peanut butter and grow up on hazelnut spread instead. There are different brands, all with subtle flavor differences, featuring either a more nutty or more chocolaty taste. Ferrero's Nutella is the leading brand, with the term Nutella being synonymously used for Hazelnut Spreads all over Europe. Not surprisingly, it's also among the more expensive hazelnut chocolate spreads.
The Nutella success story began in northwestern Italy, shortly after World War II, when master confectioner Pietro Ferrero used hazelnuts, which are plentiful in the Piedmont region of Italy, to extend the chocolate supply.
23 years later, in 1969,
Ferrero U.S.A., Inc. was founded and Nutella was introduced to the US market. Today, the Nutella supply for the US is produced in Canada and somehow finds its way to my breakfast table quite regularly.
Lately, Nutella became more popular here in the US, (e.g.
My Nutella - Rihanna Umbrella Parody, and was featured in the Los Angeles Times' Food Section this February:
Nutty for Nutella: spreadable joy however during a recent visit to Germany
http://twitter.com/tompaulus and I made a disturbing discovery. The Nutella in Germany tastes differently than the Nutella here in the US and what's even worse, the German stuff tastes much better.
By Wolf Paulus on Sunday, March 01st, 2009 • Category: [hardware]
Hello AppleTV, sometimes someone will find you annoying because you happen to do something ... or more likely, because you don't. I don't want you to change something about yourself just because and you know, we are all annoying at times, and some people are too quick to criticize. Oh, forget about it, enough is enough ...
I have an AppleTV for several months now and even with good tools like
Handbrake and the unfortunately discontinued
VisualHub, it's really annoying, having to convert every
AVI or
DivX encoded movie to make it play on the AppleTV. Other then that, it's really a great device which doesn't require much attention.
Meaning the task at hand was to
mod. the AppleTV to make it play all sorts of movies, not only those that were encoded in a format that has Apple's blessing. Nothing more, nothing less.
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A Carlsbad evening, when the sun disappears and daylight fades.
Batiquitos Lagoon is located on the coast about 30 miles north of San Diego. It's in the city of Carlsbad and just north of the city of Encinitas. Batiquitos Lagoon is a coastal wetland north of San Diego between the cities of Carlsbad and Encinitas. It is one of the few remaining tidal wetlands on the southern California coast of the United States.
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Wolf Paulus is an internationally experienced software developer and innovator, dedicated to excellence,
and motivated by enthusiasm to trying new things. He is currently focusing on Java, Mac OS X,
embedded-systems / mobile devices, and Open Source technologies. 
