July 2004

Beach Weekend

30 July 2004

Mama has to visit a location in Westerland for work, so we’re combining her business with our pleasure and spending the weekend on the North Sea. It’s the height of the summer season, so there are no rooms left on the entire island of Sylt, but we did find accomodation on the neighboring Danish island [...]

Read the full article →

Swag

29 July 2004

If the convention bloggers are getting swag from the Democrats, does that mean the bloggers are being influenced?

Read the full article →

Score One for the Tagesschau

28 July 2004

All the US blogs I’ve read on the DNC have raved about the keynote by Barack Obama, but he hasn’t been mentioned in any German media at all… except the new Tagesschau blog. No feed, no permalinks, but they might have something right. (No, I haven’t seen the speech yet. It’s in Windows Media format, [...]

Read the full article →

Lack of diversity

28 July 2004

Bite The Wax Tadpole: Lack of diversity in the European press, although I imagine he means coverage of the US and not as a whole

Read the full article →

Convention Coverage

28 July 2004

If you’re looking for interesting convention coverage, check out Adam Fuller. He’s one of the techs trying to keep the WiFi up and running in Boston, and he says that bloggers stink. Literally. (via Q Daily News)

Read the full article →

What’s the big deal?

27 July 2004

Matthew asks What’s the big deal about the Democratic convention? “I mean Kerry is set to be nominated, so that would take like half an hour. Then they could release the balloons, have a speech and be back on the road by midday.What else?” Well, technically the convention is like a German Parteitag, with delegates [...]

Read the full article →

Staticize 2.5

27 July 2004

Photo Matt – Staticize 2.5 adopts my function bit, among other changes. Have to try this out once it’s daylight here in D-Land.

Read the full article →

Cheap rent

26 July 2004

Cheap rent in the big city: original DDR concrete-slab flats in Berlin (East) for €50 per month

Read the full article →

blog.tagesschau.de

26 July 2004

The ARD newscast Tagesschau has started a weblog about the US election campaign at blog.tagesschau.de by three of their foreign correspondents in the US. No comments, no trackbacks, but at least they have permalinks. As Moe asks, are they just jumping on a fad, or will they also write about (ahem) German themes?

Read the full article →

Biting the hand that feeds you

24 July 2004

Baltic Blog: Darwin award semi-finalist, or as the Sydney Morning Herald put it, Bear bites off drunk’s hand

Read the full article →

Solitary Confinement

22 July 2004

The past few days I’ve been setting up some small scale FreeBSD jails. Setting up a full scale jail is well documented, just run make install into some directory, and there are some nice tools to manage jails once they are running. However, a full make install weighs in at over 100 MB. Even deleting [...]

Read the full article →

Google circa 1960

22 July 2004

A lot of people are linking to Google circa 1960, but in the comments to the post you can see that I am not the only one who remembers that there weren’t any ZIP codes yet in 1960. Or that phone numbers once had letters.

Read the full article →

Build your own paper A380

22 July 2004

airbus.com: Build your own paper A380 Or, as Christopher calls it, a Doppelflugzeug.

Read the full article →

TypePad Germany

22 July 2004

Heiko announces TypePad Germany

Read the full article →

Firefox Distort

22 July 2004

Is it just me, or does Firefox 0.9x on OS X distort the display of certain .gif images?

Read the full article →

What’s Right With Germany?

22 July 2004

And it’s not even a rhetorical question. Time Europe’s current cover story is on “signs of renewal in Europe’s former powerhouse” (only noticed because the local paper had a cover story on the cover story).

Read the full article →

Mere Human Beings

21 July 2004

Maybe next year they could split the Tour de France into two events, one for

Read the full article →

Something About Guido

21 July 2004

Yet another gay German politician outs himself for political advantage.

Read the full article →

Queen Mary 2 in Rotterdam

21 July 2004

Pictures of the Queen Mary 2 in Rotterdam (via Adam Curry)

Read the full article →

No Redemption

20 July 2004

Today is the 60th anniversary of the attempt to assassinate Hitler on 20 July 1944. The date is well marked in Germany. The Bendlerblock, the Wehrmacht headquarters in Berlin where the conspirators were executed that same evening, has become a shrine of sorts for the present-day Bundeswehr, and the date has been marked in recent [...]

Read the full article →

Outsourcing McDonald’s drive-through order-taking

19 July 2004

Outsourcing McDonald’s drive-through order-taking (via Link Feed)

Read the full article →

Royal Welcome

19 July 2004

The world’s largest and most expensive passenger ship, the Queen Mary 2, came to Hamburg for 24 hours, and it seems the entire city (plus a couple hundred thousand guests) played hooky on Monday to celebrate. School is on vacation, the weather was, well, acceptable (cloudy, cool, muggy, but dry), and it was a good [...]

Read the full article →

Bordbuch: Long Way Home

19 July 2004

Bordbuch: Long Way Home Flying Ryanair to Lübeck, the long way around

Read the full article →

Big Ship Far Away

19 July 2004

Queen Mary 2 in Hamburg (Heiko has better pictures)

Read the full article →

Malice and Incompetence

18 July 2004

ongoing: Malice and Incompetence Tim Bray on the Senate report on prewar intelligence, and like with his comments on the torture scandal, I can’t thnk of anything to add. (via Haiko) (Well, I actually saw it before, but Haiko’s link reminded me of it.)

Read the full article →

Prepare for Prepare

16 July 2004

Burningbird: Prepare for Prepare A look at the new PHP5 and MySQL 4.1, and what the new features might mean for non-geeky bloggers.

Read the full article →

Trademark Problem for blogg.de

15 July 2004

Boing boing: “Dr. Seuss’s ‘The Shape of Me and Other Stuff’ contains these lines: ‘And speaking of shapes/now just suppose/you were shaped like one of these!/or those!/or like a Blogg/or a garden hose!’ The Blogg in question is pictured only in silhouette (like everything else in the book); it looks sorta like a bipedal camel.” [...]

Read the full article →

Spomsored by…

15 July 2004

The dangers of neudeutsch, as demonstrated by the German Ministry of Education, no less. (via Very Large Orange)

Read the full article →

For Sale: One Euro 2004 Ball

14 July 2004

For Sale: Beckham’s Euro 2004 Ball Warning: tends to sail high (via Blogeline)

Read the full article →

As The World Churns

14 July 2004

We have new developments in the soap opera that is my workplace. Management finally presented a concrete proposal for salary reductions (retroactive to July 1). The reductions are to be progressive (rather than a flat 15%) and require 75% acceptance to take effect. However, the reductions are still permanent and the employees still receive nothing [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries