After almost eight years using (and helping develop) Polypager, a very versatile and friendly content management system, and after three years of having Zenphoto manage my pictures, I finally decided I had to retire both ...READ MORE
This property won’t have yellow books and is proudly serviced without a headache by A.S.S. BRO.
update 2014-12: Below it says »Tschuschentransporte, you were fantastic«, which they were. However, my wife scheduled a smaller delivery with them for last week, and it was an entirely weird experience with no happy end. ...READ MORE
...READ MOREwie der Kaiser Josef g’sagt hat, über Wien a großes Dach und an eigenes Bordell ist überflüssig. [EN]
Adolph Much: Kaiser Joseph und sein Freund, der Dichter Blumauer in Wien. Wenedikt 1848, S. 263.
...READ MOREDie Langeweile ist der Traumvogel, der das Ei der Erfahrung ausbrütet. [en]
Walter Benjamin
...READ MOREIch muß […] bekennen […] / daß die übermäßige Zeitungs-Begierde / eine dermaßen schädliche Kranckheit sey / welche durch ihren Mißbrauch dem gemeinen Wesen viel Schaden bringet. […] Es ist nichts gewöhnlicheres / als daß
From my Piwik report – I wish I could have helped. ...READ MORE
...READ MOREI’m bad!
Been chopping trees. I done something new for this fight:
I’d a wrestle with a alligator – That’s right.
I have wrestled with a alligator, I done tussle with a whale
I done
Motherboard has an insightful article on the history and future of Diaspora (an open source, distributed alternative to Facebook). The article is very long and alongside the Diaspora-narrative there ...READ MORE
I’ve been travelling recently and saw some noteworthy signs:
1. On the FerryI recommend watching »Starbuck« in case you’re looking for a happy maker with slight philosophical undertones on the concepts of parenthood and family, on solidarity and the meaning of »a life full of achievements« (J. ...READ MORE
Yesterday A. had a bicycle accident. Fortunately it turned out not to be too serious, but she hit her head on the curb and started bleeding from a wound near the eye. I was cycling ...READ MORE
I thought I’d adapt my place to the large screens we tend to have now. Also, my eyes are getting weaker and now and again I find myself increasing one website font sizes here and ...READ MORE
When I went to my new employer’s (Munich University) toilet for the first time, everything said »hurry up«:
...READ MOREInstructions for use of the restroom facilities
You may only sojourn within the restroom facilities to the
Watch for yourselves:
Some quotes:
...READ MORENow, in the closed mode an uncultured [petri] dish is an irrelevance. In the open mode, it’s a clue.
To get into open mode, you need: space, time, time, confidence,
Statistician Nic Marks gave a really interesting talk on happiness at TED. Starting from the observation that at the moment we focus too much on the problems and apocalyptic scenarios, we are constantly turning Martin ...READ MORE
My new job includes attending the odd job interview now and again. Today we had an applicant scheduled for 11 a.m. It turned eleven and it turned five past and ten past until at quarter ...READ MORE
This last weekend I understood a lot about the internet food chain: There are the smart guys and there are the monkeys. The smart guys find out how to crack a system. They publish their ...READ MORE
After graduation naturally comes application. Now it seems that application naturally comes with frustration.
Each and every company knows exactly what they want to a degree that just saw me printing 14 pages of a ...READ MORE
Yesterday we arrived in London for a short holiday. In the early evening we were rambling the streets, not sure what to do. When at last we made our minds up and opted for cinema, ...READ MORE
Only today I did use stairs. ...READ MORE
In the course of writing my thesis I came across Nimrod, grandson of Ham, great grandson of Noah (Gen 10, 1-12). Now Nimrod is not only »a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it ...READ MORE
From a time when intellect apparently sold:
