One Month With Ubuntu

I’ve been traveling the last four weeks, away from my workstation. My notebook is slowly dying from a dry joint. It is no longer usable in Windows where a CPR-like ritual around the touchpad is required to unfreeze the machine every few key strokes. Ubuntu deals better with the issue. So I spent a full month with Ubuntu only. How was it?

Home Sweet Home – Almost

The main leg of our trip back home was meant to be a simple non-stop transatlantic flight, from Basel-Mulhouse to Montréal. Roughly eight hours. 24 hours and two hotel rooms later we’re still on the road because of a massive delay at the airline – the second one I experience with this same airline (on [...]

The Ergonomics Of Panoramic Interactions Continued

We still live with the point&click drag&drop metaphors hard wired to the mouse as they were popularized by Apple’s Macintosh since 1984. New devices are simply defined in relationship to the mouse. It is time to define them in relationship to the human user.

Revisting Old Places

I’m currently at my parents in southern Switzerland. Usually this is a wonderful place with plenty of sunshine. The torrential rain of the past three days has changed my plans and given me time to revisit some documentation of the Hugin building, development and release process.

The Ergonomics Of Panoramic Interactions

Google StreetView keeps improving, but seems to be blind to a small change that would yield a major improvement and align it with best practice adopted by most VR viewers.

MathMap for Windows

MathMap installer for Windows.