[:en]Building a flaglight for my recumbent bike[:]

[:en]A few months ago I had a test drive on a recumbent bicycle and was instantly hooked. Suffice it to say that a few months later I am the proud owner of one myself. Being the cautious cyclist I am, my top priority especially on a recumbent is visibility. The bike is quite low, my […]

Vectorized vortex clock

The Doctor Who intro features a vortex clock. Find it on youtube here (left of the two clips). I went through some pain to vectorize it in halfway decent quality in preparation of building a Doctor Who themed wall clock. In case anyone else wants an SVG version here is my amateur attempt. I know a lot […]

Dynamic pdfs with pdflatex and ocg-p

Ever since I saw the microtype manual, I wanted to have something similar. The amazing thing about it is that you can switch on and off different microtype options and observe the resulting PDF output, I now found the package ocg-p which allows to generate pdfs with dynamically switchable layers similar to the above. I built […]

Running an open WIFI hotspot in Germany

German legislation makes it difficult to run an open WIFI hotspot: Not only will the police possibly search your house if somebody decides to commit criminal acts using your connection, you will also be liable via Störerhaftung for copyright-“crime” committed using your connection. Despite the difficulties I am a big fan of offering open WIFI, and there is […]