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Me == Fanboy

I need to admit it, I'm a sad fanboy at times. Although I actually only manage to watch her show once every other month, I sit mesmerized in front of the box when Sarah Kuttner appears. If you've ever wondered what the german term "schnoddrig&

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A new hope

Stupidity should be cured, quotes New Scientist. Does that mean that in the future I'll be unemployed? I'm a SysAdmin after all...

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What's your kink ?

Time's a-changing it seems. While the MOPO complains loudly about SM-Cafés, Diesel plasters whole housefronts with the picture you see on the left. I think that whatever conservative people may think, certain lifestyles have arrived squarely in the mainstream, and probably aren't that shocking

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Switching things on and off

Following is a literal transcript, the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Coworker in abroad office (CAO): hi, does you means that all of us must switch off outlook? Me: no need, just turn the computer on CAO: then I need to turn on all computers in our

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Cable Tangle Salad

cabletangle Last thursday the company I work for had a BBQ, where every department was asked to bring a salad. Well, don't ask the IT guys to make salad, as my coworkers first comment on which salad to make was: Cable Salad.  So we made one. I got

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Small World

It's a small world, ain't it ? Recently, I've been adding random german blogs to my Feedreader. Among them has been Fontblog. They in turn reported a nice birthday present to Candy by Kitta. The entry on Kittas blog (nice party pics btw :) ) states that

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Fraking Computers !

$%§"@&! Or however they write it in comics. Telephone rings, I'm to record some TV program where my GF may appear in due to random chance. Well, as I head over to the Media Center PC in the living room to tell it to do the right

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Disney throws the towel on hand-crafted animations

Just read this:The last bastion of traditional animation will be closed. Rumour has it that it's about money, as usual. As Disney isn't winning much with movies that have been created and these have been made in the "old way", while computer generated

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Reading Polls

"Der SPIEGEL" (the magazine, not the website) had an article about germans and their relationship to christian faith. Part of this article was a poll: Which persons or organisations do you trust ? Now, we all know that poll results tend to be skewed, especially in terms of the

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Evil, thy name is woman!

OK, I'm more or less the typical geek: Not too short, no visible muscles, bad eyesight, innate lack of fashion sense (although it's been said that I've bettered myself a tiny bit there). My pride until now was that I'm at least

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Advertising Target Groups

Reading random blogs, I stumbled over an entry moaning about how we all slowly become target groups instead of people, and how bad the advertising is sometimes, and so on. In the end, it gave this banner . The content here is german again, but the gist is: Don't

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Is there a need for "Blogiquette" ?

Frankly, I've never thought about that much. But Johnny gave it some thought, (in german) and easily impressionable person that I am, I started to think too. I instinctively tried to obey some sort of unwritten set of rules ever since I started to communicate online. Back then,

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"at your fingertips"

Currently, there's the Wikimania running in Frankfurt. That made me think about a few things. Lately, I've realized that the web offers a wealth of information "at my fingertips": I can look at places with Google Maps or Google Earth, can amaze people that

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Let there be light

Fiber Optics Bring the Sun Indoors . Someone has come up with a (really brilliant in my mind) idea. The basic premise is to capture light on a roof, and directing it into the rooms beneath it. That alone doesn't sound too spectacular, the hitch here is that they

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Music belongs to us !

CCC says: once part of human culture, now belongs to the record industry, not Don't let them brand you a criminal. Boykott the record industry!

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Vaulting Fun ? ... !

Girls having Fun Vaulting, or "Voltigieren" as it's known in german, is gymnastics and dance on horseback. It's something I'll probably never do, as I can't even do gymnastics without that moving horse being under me. But my girlfriend likes

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Can companies be "not evil"

We all know that Googles motto is "Don't be evil". They claim that although they are admittedly out to make money, there are moral barriers they won't break. That's fine and dandy, but... * Pagerank is obviously a very powerful tool when it

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PR-Flacks and magazine editors

ghi has made a nice list of things that PR flacks seem to be convinced off. It contains hilarious things like (random examples) 1. Editors just love to see Power Point presentations of the companies financial situation, instead of the product it creates. 2. Calling back immediately after a meeting

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TV Nostalgia

Someone on avlis.org posted a link to this great site: Fuggled 101: Greatest TV Themes EVER. Now, I'm german, and spent my childhood watching all cartoons in german too. Thus I do not recognize all of these themes, or remember them different. But still, a lot of

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Recent thoughts

As I'm in the latter half of a two-week vacation, I've had a lot of time to do stuff I normally don't do. For instance, I've been playing squirrel in Bad Bevensen, finally managed to watch at least the Pilot of

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not afraid

Londoners aren't afraid. Which is a good thing to see. Terrorists try to make statements by doing stupid and horrible stuff. Media then occasionally helps them unwittingly by spreading fear and stress. This is the right statement: Go and stuff yourself terrorist scum. People won't be

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Crap!

Just a sentiment I wanted to let loose. No pun intended, my bowels are quite secure, alas, I fear my job isn't. Today, it was brought to us of the IT department that we'll get outsourced into another company owned by the same person. To "

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Right & Wrong & Legal

In the recent months, those who bothered to look noticed that there is a growing chasm between what is legal, and what people perceive as "right". "Normal" people are more and more clashing with brand and intellectual property laws. The european community passes laws and regulations

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Home sweet Home

By random chance I found this picture on a NASA webpage. According to the explanation this is not a bit of filth, but the earth, as seen from Mars. Somehow, this picture gives me an eerie feeling. It is a bit like seeing a years old family picture that falls

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Coffee of the Dead

Some people seem to complain about the "Zombie Effect": People sitting in a coffee shop with WiFi, staring at their notebook, instead of being social. From a coffee-shop owners perspective, I can see what the issue is. These people hog a table, don't order anything,