July 2003

Düsseldorf Keyboard

31 July 2003

Düsseldorf Keyboard

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newsrack: Another unnecessary tradeoff: anthrax vs. AIDS

31 July 2003

newsrack: Another unnecessary tradeoff: anthrax vs. AIDS

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Open Source Flying

29 July 2003

Open Source Flying

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Yesterday Markus Gäfgen was sentenced to life imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of the 11 year old Jakob von Metzler in Frankfurt last summer. This would merely be local news, except that after Gäfgen’s arrest, when it was still thought the boy was alive, Frankfurt police threatened the suspect with ‘severe pain’ (i.e. torture) [...]

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Summer Closeout

29 July 2003

I wouldn’t have thought that the beginning of the summer close-out sales in German retail would be news to anyone other than the pensioners who line up for bargains when the stores open, but Marstonalia found it worthy of mention. Not that he was thinking of flying across the Atlantic for 60%, but because the [...]

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PHP5: Coming Soon to a Webserver Near You

28 July 2003

PHP5: Coming Soon to a Webserver Near You

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Stone Cold

26 July 2003

Listening to our local corporate 40 station this evening, something caught my ear that I had to listen more closely. Was the north German teeny band Echt now singing in English? No, the band Deuce Project has covered the bittersweet ‘don’t you wish your ex would come crawling back to you so you could turn [...]

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Ullrich vs. Armstrong

26 July 2003

Ullrich vs. Armstrong

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World New York: Technical Self-Employment

26 July 2003

Technical Self-Employment

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Harley Davidson Open

25 July 2003

Not only is this weekend supposed to have the longest traffic jams of the year (thanks to school vacation beginning in both Bavaria and Baden-Württemburg), but now 200,000 Harley fans have descended on Hamburg for the final stop of the Harley-Davidson 100th Anniversary Open Road Tour. And what do Harley fans do when they arrive [...]

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Israpundit: 22 Truths

25 July 2003

Israpundit: 22 Truths

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Dönermacher als neuer Ausbildungsberuf

25 July 2003

Dönermacher als neuer Ausbildungsberuf

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I wish Des Moines were more like Minneapolis

25 July 2003

I wish Des Moines were more like Minneapolis

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Son of Napster

24 July 2003

Son of Napster

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Ban alcohol in Austrian parliament

24 July 2003

itw: Ban alcohol in Austrian parliament?

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Summer of ’43

24 July 2003

Today is the 60th anniversary of the beginning of Operation Gomorrah, the firebombing of Hamburg by the British that after 10 days left 40,000 dead, over 1 million homeless, and scars that the city still bears today. A memorial service was held today in the bombed-out Nikolaikirche, today a peace memorial, with Mayor von Beust [...]

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If you want people to click, say something provocative. If you want to blend in… say [it] politely

24 July 2003

If you want people to click, say something provocative. If you want to blend in… say [it] politely.

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Poll shows many Germans see U.S. behind Sept 11

24 July 2003

Poll shows many Germans see U.S. behind Sept 11

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Qusay and Uday

23 July 2003

And Iraq is now a better place, and the world as well. Whether you were for the war or not, whether you think the occupation is good or ill, I think we can all agree that everyone is better off without the Hussein brothers.

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a weblog without an RSS feed is like a cheeseburger with only the bread

23 July 2003

a weblog without an RSS feed is like a cheeseburger with only the bread

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BuzzMachine: World without editors

23 July 2003

BuzzMachine: World without editors

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Adventures in disaster recovery

22 July 2003

Today I found out what happens on a virtual server when the disk space is full and a piece of spam mail arrives. The spam gets filtered to the spam folderThe mail cannot be saved, so return to senderThe sender is the spam filter, namely me. Send an error message via mailThe mail cannot be [...]

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European Baseball: Continental Divide Despite Some Promising Signs

22 July 2003

European Baseball: Continental Divide Despite Some Promising Signs

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One of my goals is to make (the program) so informal that calling it a program is laughable.

22 July 2003

One of my goals is to make (the program) so informal that calling it a program is laughable.

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Smash your television, trash your DVD player, get a life!

22 July 2003

Smash your television, trash your DVD player, get a life!

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Announcing Blosxom 2.0

22 July 2003

Announcing Blosxom 2.0

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Be careful what you wish for

22 July 2003

One thng I’ve found while blogging is that it’s impossible to know in advance what posts will get links. Some posts that I think are important and interesting don’t get noticed at all, while some throwaway remark will generate lots of comments and links. Or even start a new meme, like my joke link to [...]

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Raining on my sleep

22 July 2003

I still insist that ‘hot’ begins at 40°C, but the last couple of days have been ‘very warm’. All that energy in the atmosphere has just been discharged in the form of a thunderstorm that chased us from our bedroom in the attic. Drizzle pattering on the skylights might be romantic, but a downpour certainly [...]

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