February 2012
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Perfektion ... Anspruch und Wirklichkeit in...
As this is mostly relevant to my german readers I decided for a german language entry this time!
“Das Amt ist beschädigt worden, weil der Amtsinhaber den Ansprüchen an Integrität und Ehrlichkeit an dieses Amt nicht nicht gerecht werden konnte” (frei zitiert aus dem Tenor der Berichterstattung) … ist das so?
Mal etwas zum Nachdenken: Solange wir an unsere Volksvertreter und...
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Today I left Google+
Deleting an account on a social network shouldn’t be something big … but for me it is. I really can’t remember leaving one of the major social networks the last time. I think it was “MySpace” and that was long ago.
I never was a fan of this Facebook - Google+ rivalry anyway. I even think it should be more a comparison between G+ to Twitter according to the way G+ is...
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January 2012
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No trip to Dublin for the Deepstack Championships...
Although I love this event I have to back-off from this for 2012. It breaks my heart but sometimes there is only one choice and you can only do one thing or the other.
As I said in a former post - if you want to be successfull you have to devote enough time into it. In this case Poker has lost the race and I decided that something else (more about that in a future post) became more important to...
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LS12 INV302 Strategy in Action: IBM Mobile for...
Being very interested in the topic of mobile devices this was of course a very interesting session that I definately would have visited on site: “LS12 INV302 Strategy in Action: IBM Mobile for Social Business”. Very nice by IBM to provide this one as a recorded stream.
Especially the demos by Chris Crummey showed a lot about the great mobile offerings being available especially for...
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Ed Brills LS12 session and a much clearer roadmap
After watching Ed Brills presentation at LS12 the roadmap became much clearer to me.
Like the name “Social Edition” or not but in my opinion it’s only the tool closing the gap from Notes/Domino 8.5.3 and Connection to an integrated 9.x “whatever-it-will-be-named” solution. But don’t be fooled - the social edition release is already half way to 9.0. So...
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December 2011
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My Poker Year 2011
This was definately one of my best years in poker ever. It all started somewere early this year in Kufstein. After a long, long time not achieving much in tournaments I finally cashed and final tabled several tournaments at the Poker Royale in a row. Shotly after, a visit in Rozvadov brought another cash and another final table.
That money was used to enter the D4 Deepstack at the Montesino in...
November 2011
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Nothing is forever and sometimes there is a shift...
I am really surprised about myself as I would have called myself a die hard poker fan for a long time. But interests seem to shift a bit. I still love the game, I still will play it and I still will try to be in Vegas during WSOP each summer if possible … but it doesn’t feel so important anymore to me right now.
There are some challenges coming up in different areas but I can’t...
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Last big tournament for the year is near
My poker year 2011 is close to come to an end. The last big event in 2011 will be the D4 Events 6-max at the Montesino in Vienna. 6-max is always a fun event and I am really looking forward to December 2nd.
Was delighted that the Oceans Card Casino in Haibach (near Passau) had offered a “cheap trainings session” last Saturday ;-) Unfortunately it wasn’t a good day for me and my...
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October 2011
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An example on how NOT to use social media
I’m sitting here in Dublin after I busted out of my poker tournment. While I will write about the tournament itself (wich was again a great event) in a seperate entry … this is how they used social media - and unfortunately missed out on a great opportunity in my opinion.
For those who don’t know much about poker tournaments: In this one close to 1,400 people came together to...
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My first days with iOS 5
No, I didn’t get the new iPhone 4S … although “Siri” sounds superinteresting. But of course I upgraded my devices (iPhone 4 & iPad2) to iOS 5.
I started with my iPhone minutes after iOS 5 was available (I had updated iTunes to 10.5 the day before) and it turned out to be a mistake. As I should have expected a lot of people tried the same and the whole process of upgrading...
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My Poker schedule for the rest of the year
Poker friends … here we are! After all that stuff about social media, Apple and Facebook here’s again something about one of my favorite hobbies.
I hadn’t posted anything about playing poker recently as there wasn’t too much happening since I came back from Vegas and the USA in July.
There was only one event worth to mention (the GUKPT Goliath in Coventry) were I cashed...
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Disappointing Apple keynote or just wrong...
Sorry for all my poker fans … still nothing to write about poker at the moment. But if you are interested in Apple products you might like that blog entry too.
People around the world eagerly awaited the Apple keynote and were hoping for the iPhone 5. Many followed the livestreams from Mashable and other sources … but most of them had been disappointed. No iPhone 5 :-(
But was...
September 2011
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Understanding Facebook's new Social Reader concept
While I love FB’s new Timeline and most of the changes revealed at f8 - I suggest that every FB user thinks twice about his privacy settings on the new social reader apps.
If you haven’t been following the conference live stream yourself here’s a short description what “social reader” really is: “Social reader” takes away the burden to decide what action...
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The Fifthstreet.biz Archives (before Sep. 2011) →
If everything turns out like expected I will continue my blog here at Tumblr. Of course I won’t delete the old content. So just follow the link for posts from the old heavy-weight blog.
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From Blogging to Microblogging
Maybe Tumblr is what I was looking for.
Blogging is fun … but blogging with heavy weights systems like Blogger or recently Wordpress started to get difficult for me. I don’t want to compile long articles after several days of travel anymore. I prefer to do smaller stuff shortly after it happend. Of course I need the abilty to post pictures and Videos. And yes, 140 characters is of...
August 2011
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WatchI was using an iPhone since January 2011 and I am owning a netbook. But since the iPad was available I was thinking about buying one several times. But I was torn between the question if it really would be useful or just a big iPhone. Finally – during our recent trip to the USA – I decided to find out.
It’s a cool gadget … no question but I am surprised how much it influenced the way I use my...
July 2011
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June 2011
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My pictures from the 24th BB Dance Camp
The “24th Boogie-Baeren Whitsun Camp” – now better known as “BB Dance Camp” – is over and it was again a great time in Landsberg near Munich. Over 400 Boogie-Woogie and Lindy Hop dancers took classes with some of the best teachers available and danced all night to the sound of the Swinging’ Fireballs and the tunes of our great DJ’s. Not to forget the great teachers performances and the...
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Just four more weeks till Las Vegas
After skipping Vegas and the WSOP in 2010 I am happy to come back again this year!
The WSOP has already started and on July 4th I will arrive in Las Vegas, too. I won’t play a WSOP event and unfortunately I was refused media credentials this year for very strange reasons. But there’s so much to do in Vegas anyway during that time of the year. Of course I will play two of the Venetian Deepstacks...
May 2011
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How much effort is a new garden worth?
I didn’t had much time for playing poker recently as other tasks consumed most of my time. One of those tasks had been dancing and practicing. Another task was to reinstall my laptop with the new Ubuntu (I will write about this somewhat later). But the main effort belonged to our garden.
Last year we moved into our new appartment in the small city of Erding (northeast of Munich). Not only did we...
April 2011
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Austrian Deepstack Poker Championships – Short...
I definately would have loved to play somewhat longer on that final day but I knew anyway that my options were very limited due to the fact that I was in 25th position of the 25 players left. My stack of 167k was a dwarf against the one from the chipleader Richard Toth who had packed around 3 Million Chips yesterday night.
On the other hand with blinds at 12k/24k (4k) a single double up would...
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Austrian Deepstack Poker Championships – sneaked...
That was a very hard day for me. A day that started quite good but at the end became a long and grueling fight. As said in my last post I had a good table draw. At the start of the tournament I also got the button so everything looked well for Day 2.
And indeed it contimued this way. We lost one player per minute in the first time of the tournament. While the player count dropped to 185 my...
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Austrian Deepstack Poker Championships – Day 2...
Reached my first goal of the the tournament and made it into Day 2! I wished for some more chips but with 102,900 I am still little over average and not too far away from my all-time high. If the number of 208 remaining players is correct then we have some kind of a funny number game: A total of 416 players (both days combined) started to make the prizepool €208,000. Now we have exactly half of...
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Austrian Deepstack Poker Championships – Back To...
Mike, Brian and D4Events are back to Vienna with their Monster Deepstack Tournament! After I had a good run in Dublin (but no cash) I am really looking forward to this one. While my first deepstack in Namur last year was a big dissapointment both the Vienna event and the Dublin event in February saw me making a Day 2. So it looks like I am starting to feel comfortable with the structures. And...
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Why I finally fell in love with TripIt
I love to try and test new social tools but when I find one I like I usually stick with it for that particular area for a long time. In regards of travel related stuff I originally used “Plazes”. I especially loved their map badge that could be integrated easily into every blog or webpage (this was long before Foursquare was around). Unfortunately after they were aquired by Nokia I wasn’t too...