Near my home in Hamburg Altona, this flysheet was found. Apparently Svenja is missing a phone number. Although I like coffee, it isn’t me. So if anyone can help…

For many month now, I am thinking about one question: What color is the internet? My guess: the internet is blue. We in Germany know from advertising that electricity is yellow (there is a supplier called Yellowstrom). So everything has to have a color.

It might be a stupid question or a quite deep one, whatever you prefer. Although it is impossible to actually answer the question, one of my ideas is this: take the top 100,000,000 web sites, reduce it’s home screen to one pixel with the color code of the arithmetic average of the entire site. Putting together an image with those pixels should show a dominant color if there is one. Also one could sort the pixels by color code to make the differentiation more visible or divide the pixels in to rough color categories and count he pixels for its share.

A somewhat similar attempt has been tried by www.antreposhop.com. They took the top websites from the categories design, game and blogs and created some color rainbow of the internet. The guys from A2591 documented this in their blog.

Source: “What is the color of the internet?” www.a2591.com

Although I still want to try my approach for comparison, it seems that I am correct: the internet is mostly blue. In particular, blogs are red, games are green and design website are grey. I must admit they are calling it dominant colors for the categories, the average color seems pretty grey. 

Source: “What is the color of the internet?” www.a2591.com

What do you think, is the color of the internet? 

On friday, 11.11.11, I went to see Steve Lukather at the Markthalle in Hamburg. It was a fun event. I provided you with some photos and background info. I just found a nice Youtube Video providing a small insight into the show. Take a look:

I especially enjoyed this: “I really most of all want to thank you guys for showing up here tonight to see an old guy and his young band play.” Steve Lukather.

In my series about christmas decoration I pointed you out to the snow machine and to various options for the rest of us. As it seems all the geeky stuff is our of stock or really overpriced, I admit I have settled for this:

I found something useful some nights ago…. decent headlights! 

While I was exploring the outer rims of office buildings the other day, I discovered a feature most modern elevators seem to be missing: ashtrays. I am sure you are aware of the ashtrays in airplanes. Even the most modern airplanes, like the Airbus A380, have ashtrays. One has to be prepared in case smoking becomes a fashion topic in a distant future, I guess. A plane is around for some years after all… This elevator definitely was. 

On friday, 11.11.11, I enjoyed Steve Lukather on his All’s Well That End Well tour live on stage at the Markthalle in Hamburg. He was accompanied by Eric Valentine on drums, Renee Jones on bass and the marvelous Steve Weingart on keyboards. As a huge fan of TOTO and Steve himself, it is needless to say, it was a great show.  

Basically, I followed the career of Steve my entire life (at least as long as I can remember) and already witnessed TOTO in Hamburg late this summer. I was amazed by the form the guys were in. This time again, I was blown away by the energy on stage. It is so much fun to watch Steve these days. It surely was one his best shows so far (and I have seen him quite often, be sure of that). I just wish he would be here more often.

As a musician and media technician at heart I must attest that the PA at the Markthalle in Hamburg is not to be recommended for anything sophisticated or to anyone with high standards. Sorry!

Sorry for the low res photos, but I am on a 3G data connection right now. If you want to dive in more deeply, you can always join Steve Lukather on facebook.

On Sunday, Nov 6 2011, George Duke himself was on stage at the Fabrik in Hamburg. His show included various tunes from past decades such as Brazilian Love Affair and Miles Davis’ Tutu as well as tracks from the lates album Deja Vu.

The band was ok, with a solid bass player and decent drummer. The guitarist did not impress me much, I must admit. All in all it was sure worth the money. The old albums are far more recommendable, especially those from the old days of Fusion with Miles Davis, Billy Cobham or Stanley Clarke. 

To get a feeling, take a look at this clip I found from the concert at the Fabrik.

If you are interested, you can join George Duke on Facebook.

Although it makes me sad, the team behind the table connect for iPhone revealed the truth behind their viral campagne at TEDxVienna on October 22… it’s a fake afterall. Take a look at the video of the event:

I admit, I am happy to have the new iPhone 4S, although Siri does not satisfy my deepest desires for finally having a computer to talk just like the Star Trek Computer Voice. However, one thing does not make me happy. Compared to the iPhone 4, the new iPhone seems to be of lesser quality in terms of material. It feels cheap and it makes a disturbing buzzing noise while vibrating.

This is already an issue in Apple’s support community but a statement from Apple has not been issued yet. There is even a recording of it. Quite disturbing, isn’t it? Someone in the support thread says, he’s gotten a new iPhone at an Apple store without the error. Somehow I am not convinced that’s the solution. So far I’ve seen 5 iPhone 4S. They all had the same buzzy noise. 

Maybe I have to put the iPhone in a vibration absorbing case and wrap it in plastic, as someone I know did (for other reasons of course). It sure looks like a new artform but it’s not the right way for me. So I really hope Apple comes up with a better solution.