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my first 75km bike ride (as triathlon exercise)
- https://flow.polar.com/training/analysis/33768571 – 2014-11-05
- https://goo.gl/maps/0blIn
- http://www.polar.com/en/products/accessories/Universal_Bike_Mount
- only after that ride I got me eventually …
- glasses to wear during bike rides simply to protect my eyes from objects,
- and also Polar’s “Universal Bike Mount“, so that I have my heart rate and my speed right before my eyes displayed by my favourite equipment, the Polar V800.
2014-11-05
keeping .fetchmailrc SSL fingerprints updated semi-automatically
- https://github.com/JochenHayek/misc/blob/master/fetchmail–extract_fingerprints.pl
- http://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/
- Properly adminstrated IMAP servers (and also POP3 servers) get their SSL certificates replaced once in a while, and their SSL fingerprints change then as well
- Of course this invalidates fetchmail’s configuration data “describing” those servers.
- And fetchmail does not assist you keeping them updated – for good reason somehow.
- Today it appeared to me, as if had already updated manually such configuration details quite a couple of times in my life-time.
- This job also appeared to me as tedious and errorprone.
- So I made this a tiny little programming challenge.
- Right …, looks like yet another NIH thing – and I actually only did the research after completing my task, but I am staying entirely within the fetchmail universe, whereas the others resort to using openssl and mix up things quite a little, and I don’t really see the benefit.
- My resulting script is neither super-exemplary nor very beautiful.
- Well … it does indeed make use of a little formatting aid function, that I quite like and that I added inline – but actually w/o debugging switched on, you don’t need it all.
- Update 2014-12-12: if different IMAP servers (all responding at different times to the same DNS name) can have different certificates, it is certainly better to have fetchmail deal with that fact, but apparently up until today, that isn’t the fact. I should listen probably listen to the fetchmail mailing lists (or even get involved in the discussion) – see the link to the mailing lists above! Actually it does not appear to me, as there was a recent discussion on the matter.
- Update 2014-12-15: always start fetchmail like this:
  $ fetchmail –verbose –logfile $HOME/var/log/fetchmail.log
  then run my script, and it will also tell you, whether the fingerprints match; I simply call it, before following my procmail LOG again
2014-11-05
YouTube music video (2012-05-01): Bobby Mcferrin & Achinoam Nini (Noa) in Tel Aviv
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc8zggPpJ3E
2014-11-05
a very nice website serving as “Time Zone Converter” / “Time Difference Calculator”
- http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
- “I am living in Berlin – what are suitable times to call my aunt in South Carolina?”
2014-11-04
being a “full-time” athlete – a dream I never thought I would even attempt to fulfill

And now I feel like I am already quite in the middle of it.

And I had not the faintest idea, that athletes gain almost as much “respect” and “admiration” as musicians. That’s a rather nice side-effect.

2014-11-03
George Florin Stoica on YouTube and Google+
- https://www.youtube.com/user/tr4nsp4rencia
- https://plus.google.com/+GeorgeFlorinStoica
I got aware of him through his nice comment on an Asaf Avidan video.
2014-11-03
music: Asaf Avidan // Over My Head – Official Video [HD] – YouTube
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNcyAzSmKpc
http://www.youtube.com/v/uNcyAzSmKpc
- https://www.youtube.com/user/tr4nsp4rencia (George Florin Stoica)
- https://plus.google.com/+GeorgeFlorinStoica/posts/ENUrypjrAP8
: “Wonderful new video where things get fixed just by kissing and looking hot at each other. Might be a new thing 🙂“
2014-11-02
“Urban Dictionary” – a dictionary not to be taken too serious – but it’s funny
- http://www.urbandictionary.com
2014-11-02
music: John Legend: all of me
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHJytDUxnq4
2014-10-28
Ironman Hawaii – triathlon masters all-time rankings
- http://www.mastersathletics.net/fileadmin/html/Rankings/All_Time/ironmanhawaii.html – historical achievements
I have to try rather soon, where I fit in.
- a marathon time around 4 hours seems achievable
- a bike time around 5:15 hours seems achievable as well
- I have no serious idea, what my swimming time can be – I have to go swimming soon in order to try.
Just that swimming in a 25 m pool seems the most boring part at all:
- you don’t see a lot,
- you can neither listen to music nor to radio.
- well, you can sort of “sing” to yourself or improve language skills: counting, conjugation, declination in foreignn languages.
2014-10-27