Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @tomayac ever

August 2009

On the way to SFO via LHR. Two times aisle & shared corridor screen. Sigh. Next time check-in online (note to self). Plus iPhone still dead.

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.@tcurdt You can get a free iTunes account w/o/ a US credit card (if this is your main problem, as it was for me): http://bit.ly/vZ75f

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OH @iphone_dev “If only Apple had called their new OS Sn0w Leopard!” http://bit.ly/hAS0o

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@kojote I have blocked Nov. 12 for some agency event in Zürich :-) Guess this answers your question…

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2nd match vs. Travanto ended 2:2. I blame the sand ;-) Next match is vs. ePages. http://twitpic.com/fowgp http://twitpic.com/fowil

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2:1. For the others :-( Well-deserved victory, Xing. I blame you cheerleaders… Good luck, thanks for the fair match

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Kick-ass thunderstorm. Beach soccer at its best. Welcome to my hometown Hamburg! http://twitpic.com/fp3jo

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1:1. Phew! Next match vs. Xing. OH @frischkopp: They don’t know yet that they just got kicked out of /the/ index ;-)

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Shirts arrived w/ a taxi, 1st match vs. BLAU.de won 1:0, sun shining not burning. Life’s good. Behold even more :-)

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Duh, still waiting for our Google shirts for . JIT delivery sucks when the ‘J’ part is missing.

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Yeah, work-life-balance is getting 2.0ish again: participating in Net Soccer Beach Clash w/ team today. Opponents, behold!

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RT @avinashkaushik Signs you might not get it: Your tweets end with “Please RT”. [Let your content stand on its own legs.]

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I’m making my tweets permanent with http://BackupMyTweets.com

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is a perfect answer, as long as the ‘f’ stands for “fantastic”.

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@vinoaj I leave the photos to the SLR pros: http://www.apple.com/mac… Loving it from the first moment. Enjoy yours! :-)

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New work laptop: MacBook Pro 13” unibody. One matte block of aluminum with a glossy display. Booting. Holding breath. Historic moment.

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Personally I tend to using # CamelCase (like # MacOSX) and accepting cases (# MacOSX, not # macosx) @hashtags

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@bebroll Good one ;-) Do you see the same behavior? It seems to always crop the last second of each track or so…

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<3 (better client for Mac OS X) so far. Tracks always terminate ~1s before the actual end, tho. Anyone? Fix?

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RT @tcurdt:Does anyone know the people at Apple from the appstore team that are so weird (//edited//)? http://bit.ly/xDxdP

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RT @vinoaj:AdWords API v2009 (beta) now available to all advertisers http://ff.im/7gC64

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@hashtags doubt. Use what? 1) # camelCase 2) # under_score 3) # split # words (spaces after ‘#’ added intentionally)

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Getting from each time new accounts (eg asia.fuckable) for the recent few days. Anyone else? Counter-measures?

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RT @sixtus42 @tomayac Settings -> Privacy #skype #spam // Duh, so obvious. Thanks!

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@retomeier @LordofGoats Dudes, what’s going on with the London BBQ? Did you put the office on fire?

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RT @tcurdt:”Geht zur Wahl” sagt Blumentopf http://bit.ly/36Aj9f // DE Rapper Blumentopf encourages people to vote at the Bundestag election.

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.@julianwki Why & not GTUGhh? Streamlining w/ otGTUG groups using “GTUG”+”IANA code of host city” (in DE: MUC, FRA, BER, HAM).

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#gtugham RT @ChristopherBlum http://twitpic.com/fco9i - @shonzilla working on his first #android sound recorder app during android preso

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@NicholasPerkins LOL. I’d consider switching companies then ;-)

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RT @jlmouton:Today at 18:30, Berlin meeting. Topics: AppEngine Java & Google Wave intro. Wave playground http://bit.ly/2RC class=”hashtag” rel=”search” href=”//twitter.com/search?q=%23GTUGber”>#GTUGberGber

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is about to start. Full house so far. Topics are &aroid. Both presos by external presenters: http://tr.im/xaTk

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is on repair for 1 week + x. Bastian’s preso reminds me of my at home; supposed to be my excl. device for now.

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70+ participiants (guesstimation [http://tr.im/xbnk]) here at . No water dripping from ceiling yet (pointing at you, ).

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Bastian Voigt (http://tr.im/xblS) takes over & presents roid SDK, architecture, security model, code samples.

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Ben Asmussen (http://tr.im/xb0Z [XING acct req]) kicks off the preso. Thx for sharin the slides w/ http://tr.im/xb0S

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: guesstimate - an attempt to calculate sth. that is based more on guessing than on information (via http://tr.im/xarj)

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Can someone just take computers away from people who send screenshots embedded in docs? Or worse : http://tr.im/xa6a

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is w/ Apple b/o/ the sometimes broken home button. Guarantee’s about to be over. Problem’s the “sometimes” in the error description.

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One more short night’s sleep till . In the Google office this time. Topics: &aroid. Yay, see you there!

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Watched a soap box race @ Bellcaire d’Empordà, ES. Addicted to speed for 1h & sentimental feelings. Winning vehicle http://twitpic.com/f1efw

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Quite impressed by FW 3.0.1. w/ failed (unplugged USB 927x). Got a phone, not a computer for now :-(

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Wow! Thanks! RT @bebroll:@tomayac did u try #sweetfm? it uses lastfm in the bg & has some magic features on top of it. #wishgranted #LastFM

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What a day. stuck @ “Waiting for reboot” & (un)pluggin USB doesn’t help. Presently stuck @ “Wating for server to respond”.

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Off to Spain now. 33 deg. of Hamburg bye-bye, 41 deg. of Barcelona hola! On vacation for 5 days :-)

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RT @berlingtug:Tomorrow night, Thu 20th, StudiVZ GeekNight (Berlin). Topic is w/ Chris Chabot from Google http://tr.im/wFiR

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Unjailbreaking my . Carrying it to the T-Mobile store bc of the broken home button. Backup help: http://tr.im/wFQq

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Just noticed (late?) that finally you can drag tabs out of the current Firefox window in order to open a new window. Thanks, @firefox

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I never got . Why would people link to FF on Twitter? It is yet another click from Twitter to FF to the actual story.

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Ever wondered what \^[a-zA-Z]+ means in tweets? It’s @cotags notation for several people sharing one account. ^TS

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Just had some beschuit met muisjes http://tr.im/wxen. In NL when you have a baby boy, theye’re blue, else rose: http://twitpic.com/e8h5j

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@jos_tweets Get Alice DSL, dude! Cable Internet for some reason never works reliably here (tried DE+FR). Let me refer you & get free months!

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No, I don’t envy you, smart attorney guys w/ your Dell laptops & olderish BlackBerries. Thanks Google for my MacBook, iPhone & the non-tie.

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Amsterdam today.Hagelslag for @jos_tweets, meetings for me. Engineering review prep in the evening. Dont tell’em I drink Heineken for it ;-)

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@eternalstorms Don’t take unreflected criticism personally! I love GimmeSomeTune! Let them idiots rant…

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Painful experience w/ Google Docs (Presently). No connectors, object grouping. W/ all due respect for Canvas magic, Web apps = long way 2 go

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@nelson LOL. Great AT&T fail story! G3 reliably works in most of Europe. You could replace home DSL & live w/ G3 actually. Some already do.

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dates for 2009 have been published: Prague: Nov 6. Moscow: Nov 10. Period. No DE, FR, UK, ES, IT. http://tr.im/wyWI

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Installed Five Column SpringBoard bc I had too many icons. Now can’t uninstall it bc I’ve too many icons. Apple, pls fix SpringBoard

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Any1 any experience w/ and/or (Germany) policy regarding no longer working home buttons? Repair? Replace? Guarantee?

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What do you do for recreation? - Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback. Erm, scratch that. PowerPointing now.

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@sixtus42 Should get a Wave account soon. Put you on the waiting list with priority boarding enabled ;-)

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Them Dutch guys: RT @jos_tweets:RT @hessam:Just stumbled over yellowBird - freakin fantastic: http://bit.ly/uexwK - Additionally, it’s Dutch

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Damn. Another time got tricked by the tradition of faking to go to the toilet, but paying the dinner bill instead.

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Watching the Queen Mary 2 leave L:Hamburg. Majestic moment! http://twitpic.com/e0i14

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@LordofGoats Dude, what’s wrong? Why the “naturally”? Shouldn’t that be “exceptionally”?

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Did you know that is all ‘bout food? Enjoying an organic Pinkus Pils beer for . Cheers, and happy weekend!

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@retomeier Developer Advocate at & author of Professional Android App Devel http://tr.im/wplv

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Havin a love-hate relationship w/ . Lovin the excitement what’s new today, hatin that you can’t ignore updates, or can one, @saurik ?

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As-Salamu Alaykum, welcome http://www.google.ps. Shalom, joining http://www.google.co.il. Both greetings mean peace. Remember!

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Browsing from your browser: http://tr.im/wjZp or http://tr.im/wjZo No more “(Re-)Loading Data” :-)

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RT @codinghorror:On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study http://people.csail.mit….

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Loving how everyone has “just a quick question” and how most mails to me start with “one of our biggest customers”.

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For the last few weeks I started grabbing two cups of coffee in a row each time I grabbed “a” coffee. Am I an addict? c[_] c[_]

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RT @filiber RT @manishwebmaster 5 Most Important Things U Can Do w/ Google Webmaster Tools in Google Optimization http://tinyurl.com/qomm2t

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“Not a PR stunt”>Not sure about sustainability, tho: RT @trimurls:Due to popular demand, tr.im is resurrected. http://blog.tr.im

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RT @dalmaer: “FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request” Congrats to Bret and company http://tinyurl.com/n2ypcu

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Interview w/ the finder of the SMS vulnerability: http://bit.ly/zOkKT. So waiting for FW 3.1 bug fixes. (Via @xneo2001)

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If you are into internals, I highly recommend the blog http://tr.im/wc6A Warning: some Objective-C & ASM skills needed.

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Google Tours took me to L:Leipzig today, the city of Pressefreiheit (google it together w/ Leipzig) & city of Bach http://twitpic.com/dhpuw

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Anonymous bc you delete cookies on browser quit? No! Flash cookies re-spawn HTTP cookies: http://tr.im/wcTY via @dalmaer @bgalbs

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Missed FW3.0.1 too. Still on 2.2.1; happy & un-SMS-exploited. Signed up for iPhone Developer Program today. Waiting for 3.1 fixes.

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tr.im is dead: http://tr.im/w8Hh Ironically the URL in this tweet was shortened using tr.im via Nambu. Who’s next? is.gd? su.pr?

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End of 1st day after Twitter-less vacation. Caught up on mails. Catching up on blogs. Gave up on tweets. What did I miss? tr.im’s death.

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