Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to all of you and your families. I'm currently off visiting Good Old Home, and then again the annual Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin. Happy Holidays!
(courtesy xkcd.com)
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Just stumbled across an interesting documentary about the QR Code phenomenon in Japan. QR codes are simple two-dimensional bar codes capable of storing up to ~4000
characters of information. They typically look something like this:
Maybe you've seen them already. In Japan you can find them on buildings, billboards, magazine ads, product packages, etc. They're basically everywhere. In order to decode QR codes, you just take a picture with your cell phone. The (hopefully installed) QR code reader then decodes it and brings up the information. QR code readers are available for quite a lot of mobile phones already. If you want to, you can even generate your own QR codes.
Maybe you've seen them already. In Japan you can find them on buildings, billboards, magazine ads, product packages, etc. They're basically everywhere. In order to decode QR codes, you just take a picture with your cell phone. The (hopefully installed) QR code reader then decodes it and brings up the information. QR code readers are available for quite a lot of mobile phones already. If you want to, you can even generate your own QR codes.
Yay, I finally did it. Switched the site to one of those hyped "Web 2.0"-style blog engines. So far it looks promising, I guess I even managed to successfuly convert everything from the old site. Feel free to take a look. In case you find anything missing, don't hesitate ... tell me.
Yea, yeah .. back from the annual Chaos Communication Congress; wish you all a Happy New Year and a good start into 2007 ...
I am wishing you all a wonderful Xmas and Happy New Year. I'm off now, visiting Good Old Home, and after that, the annual Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin. Happy Holidays!
On kuro5hin.org rianjs writes:
Before the Information Age, we had the Computer Age, and a long time
before that was the Ice Age. Since the term "Information Age" became
common in the late 1970s, the world has slowly moved toward ubiquitous
information permeation. We now have information about information,
often to several layers of abstraction ... [read full article]
The 21st annual Chaos Communication Congress will be held in Berlin from December 27-29. The schedule
so far looks promising. Topics range from new technology to activism to
cryptography. In addition there will be a lockpicking seminar and
competition plus films and a huge network area. Ofcourse The Usual Suspects will be there too ... ;-)
