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Bahn fahren und im speziellen der Autoreisezug wurde in einer der letzten Ausgaben des Rondo beworben. Und aus aktuellem Anlass habe ich mir die Kosten für die Strecke Wien - Feldkirch herausgesucht - ein Auto plus 2 Insassen.


Soweit die Preise pro Person - 121,40 both-way. Der Hammer ist aber die Preisabfrage vom Autozug - man muss zuerst seine KFZ- sowie Kreditkarten-Daten eingeben, erst dann sieht man einen Preis... (siehe Bild rechts). Diesen finde ich mit 75,90 € zwar günstig, aber trotzdem rechnet sich das ganze nicht wirklich.

Hier die Rechnung für Auto-selbst-Fahrer:

• rund 1300 km Wien - Feldkirch - Wien
• 7 Liter / 100km
• aktueller Preis von rund 1 € / Liter
  

Das ergibt gerundet 100 Euro, also immer noch 2/3 weniger als das Bahn-Ticket...


Also mich wunderts ja nicht, dass die ÖBB so schlecht da steht, bei den Kosten und dem Service und einer Website, die ohne JavaScript nicht bedienbar ist.

Labels: deutsch, rant, travel

Maybe this works better than the Viennese initiative which does not explicitly talk to the dogs...

Seen in Boston, MA.

Labels: english, fun, travel

... hatte ich eine Stunde Verspätung, weil die Ladung noch ausbalanciert werden musste. Nun, beim Einsteigen habe ich folgendes fotografiert, da wundert mich nix mehr, dass wir so lange warten mussten, diese Fracht kann man ja nicht wie Koffer rumwerfen oder gar vergessen:


Für alle mit schlechten Augen - das ist ein niet-nagel-neuer, weisser Ferrari, der gerade in die 747 nach Boston verladen wird!

Labels: deutsch, fun, travel

The jQuery Camp 2008, which has been held today at the Stata Center at the MIT, is over. It has been organized by the creator of the library, John Resig - who did a great job - with the library and with the conference!

While John opened the day with news about the current jQuery status, planned changes, internals and not-so-well-known features of the core he also mentioned:

"I haven't done any serious Web development in a long time..."

Which obviously nobody in the crowd believed.

Afterwards other speakers talked about scalable applications, jQuery UI and jQuery Plugin development. At least in the advanced track the quality of the talks was pretty high, except for one exception, where downloading and installing the framework would have had the same effect... completely wrong for an advanced audience to just explain the basic samples delivered with the framework. Punished by typing noise (80% MacBooks, 20% others).

One of the highlights was the talk about processing.js, a port of the Processing visualization language, which clearly showed what is possible with todays JavaScript and current browsers (including IE!).

Overall a great day together with the jQuery community and the jQuery developers at the MIT! Looking forward to next years conference!

(Photo source)

Labels: conference, english, jquery, travel, web

Last week I had a lot of fun - imagine me sitting in the same room with 24 project managers, talking about how to manage projects, risks, scheduling, sizing etc. All other attendees have been project managers, I was the only specialist who just wanted to learn the basics. And get a check mark. But that's another story.

Nevertheless it turned out to be a lot of fun - our instructor Darryl (who reminded me about Matt) teaches project management since he is literally 3 years old and he is really (and I mean really really) good at it! So even "the programmer" in between the serious project managers learned something about how projects *should* be managed.

In the evenings we went out for some beers - actually and unfortunately the only sightseeing I did. No time for anything else, one evening it was too late for a walk, the other day it was raining... no luck this time. At least I had a great view out of my hotel room.

So there are many valid and good reasons to come back to the beautiful city of Amsterdam, maybe in spring next year?

Labels: english, ibm, travel