Sunday, March 04, 2007

In a cave.

Outside with the kids. There's a tiny cave near where we live where I took both photographs.

Friday, March 02, 2007

No Filth!

The Moss-Buffalo is a very tidy animal, especially his keys are always well-groomed.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

CS coaching

Computer-Science-Coaching
Who of you is able to teach me the basics of computer science? And with basics, I mean everything from the beginning. And when I say beginning, I mean the absolute basics!
Everything else (salary) we can sort out on the phone.
So please call me at ...
(Seen in our cafeteria)

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Refurbishing the university

What do you use to renovate the university? Well, Uniflott of course.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Das Keyboard

Last week, I ordered Das Keyboard from Get Digital. Today the order arrived. Typing feels very nice on that keyboard, although the constant clicking will drive my colleague in the same office nuts! ;-)

Sunday, February 25, 2007

My tax euros at work.

The german government tried to persuade its citizens to file their tax declaration electonically by providing a free (as in beer) windows application. It's called Elster, which is german for Magpie, a bird that at least in german folklore, is said to be quite thievish. Now, I installed that application to finally file my 2005 tax returns. And I'm prepared for the worst, because the german government is known for it's phenomenal failure in all its software projects. And my confidence in their incompetence was not disappointed, the dialog box above tells you that they were not able to make the program work without administrative rights. That's especially funny because -at least as a merchant who also can use that program- you are required by law to abide to basic security practices on your computers.

Monday, February 12, 2007

Monday, February 05, 2007

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Again, trainstation at night.

After watching this space for a while you will inevitable come to the conclusion that I really like taking photos at our trainstation. Please let me affirm this suspicion with this post.

Playing with the layout.

 I'm trying to put my non-existing CSS skills to use... I hope you like the baby-blue background.

Monday, January 29, 2007

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Migrated...

I migrated this blog to new blogger, that's why the link to my friends' blogs are missing. Will be repaired soon.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Hello, Hello, this is Berlin

(you have to crank up the gain to the maximum to hear anything, but it works...)

Snow.

Since last thursday, train station from where I live is less than perfect, at least I can admire the romantic landscape while waiting.

Monday, January 15, 2007

More mindless vandalism

Improvements made to our ticket-machine on the train station. It's amazing how many idiots there are in the upper palatinate.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Result of preposterous vandalism

Destroyed glass-wall of a refuge at my local bus stop.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Ghost train.

Studivz

If you want to register at the Student's Registry (which was sold for €85M to Holtzbrinck recently!) you are presented with this registration form. Up to now I assumed, that someone who graduated from university should be able to distinguish between surname (Nachname) and given name (Vorname) without further help?

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

integrated circuits and envelopes

We ordered samples from Analog Devices before christmas, today they arrived. We are happy about that, of course, but they arrived with a little exaggerated packaging. The two chips (one SO-8, the other a little bit smaller) came each in a piece of PVC tube (the SO-8) or SMD-reel, packed each in a antistatic bag and put in a seperate padded envelope, about A4-size.

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Back in Hamburg

After a lovely breakfast I started doing shift in the bunker.