From the monthly archives:

March 2004

Self Promotion

31 March 2004

As seen at vowe

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Homework

30 March 2004

He’s just coloring, but he says it’s homework.

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Engineer Genes

30 March 2004

He has them from Grandpa.

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Samba 3… not!

30 March 2004

At work I inherited an installation of Samba-TNG. We want to eventually migrate to Samba 3, which my predecessor warned me would be really hard. I didn’t really believe him, mostly out of ignorance, since I have absolutely no clue how Windows networking works. Samba-TNG has been acting up the past few weeks, destroying [...]

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Posts not intended for my mother

29 March 2004

My blog is schizophrenic, just like me. I sometimes blog about my family, sometimes about politics, sometimes about being an expat in a strange land, and sometimes about geeky computer stuff. Since the geeky computer stuff doesn’t have much to do with the other stuff, and my mother doesn’t really want to read the geeky [...]

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Firesomething

29 March 2004

As seen at slashdot, firesomething is an extension for firebird, er, firefox that will rename the browser at random, with different names for each window. Best of all, you can put the random name into your User Agent, so you can mess with the minds of webmasters who spend too much time reading their logs. [...]

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Haberler

28 March 2004

Haberler: ARD Tagesschau in Turkish

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Bicycle

27 March 2004
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Gone Fishing

23 March 2004

At least mentally. I’ll be back here next week.

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Ublog Apart

22 March 2004

Loïc Le Meur, who was recently in Hamburg at our Blog Meet, has announced that his company will be the exclusive partner of Six Apart in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). And now we know why he came to Germany for a week… it wasn’t just a whim.

At the BlogMeet neezee and [...]

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Gordon

21 March 2004

This is Christopher, and his locomotive friend Gordon. And a picture of Gordon. I hope HIT Entertainment doesn’t sue us for the striking likeness.

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The Spinger Telegraph?

21 March 2004

Spiegel Online is reporting that Germany’s Springer Verlag, Europe’s largest newspaper publisher (Bild, Die Welt) will make an offer to buy the Daily Telegraph, Great Britain’s largest non-tabloid paper. I guess if they can handle Rover and Mini going German, then they can handle a German newspaper, although it would be more fun to see [...]

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Markdown

21 March 2004

Markdown is a syntax for converting plain text to (X)HTML. It’s written in Perl and available (among other things) as a MT plugin. I’m trying it out with this post. It’s designed to leave the plain text very readable after it’s marked up, as opposed to Textile, which makes marking up plain text easy but [...]

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vowe goes to CeBIT so you don’t have to

20 March 2004

vowe goes to CeBIT so you don’t have to

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FAZ Weekly: Döner, Anyone?

20 March 2004

FAZ Weekly: Döner, Anyone?

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Home Alone

19 March 2004

Mama’s travel schedule has been heck the past 8 weeks. Right now her employer is holding 3 2-day meetings one after the the other, extending through Monday. So Christopher and I are baching it for the second consecutive weekend. The good news that after that she’ll be home on paid sabbatical for the next two [...]

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Spiegel Online claims to have a strategy paper from al Qaida

18 March 2004

Spiegel Online claims to have a strategy paper from al Qaida from October 2003 calling for an attack on Spain to influence the parliamentrary elections and force a withdrawl of Spanish troops from Iraq. It describes Spain as the most appropriate “first domino”.

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Helden

17 March 2004

Like Little Jamie, I’ve recently joined the 21st century and bought an mp3 stick, 256 MB USB. So now I can tune out whereever I am. My current favorite is the debut album Die Reklamation from Wir Sind Helden, who lately swept the Echos (the German Grammies). They’re ’80s-retro NDW with clever modern German lyrics. [...]

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CeBIT Optional

16 March 2004

Just for the record, I won’t be at the CeBIT this year, even though several Hamburg bloggers will be atttending the world’s largest cattle stampede, er, I mean computer and IT trade show in Hannover (insert gratuitous Hannover joke here). Funny, back when I was not in the industry, I used to go to CeBIT [...]

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Citizen Smash on Spain

16 March 2004

Citizen Smash: “(Some) have accused the Spanish of knuckling under to terrorists. These latter reactions are wholly inappropriate. Spain is not America, but it is an ally, and a representative democracy. It is not our place to criticize whom our allies select to be their leaders, so long as the elections are free and fair, [...]

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Another fine moment in systems administration

15 March 2004

A month ago I replaced the system on a monitoring server, a low-powered PC that stores our syslogs and runs Cricket, collecting various statistics via SNMP. It also serves as the serial console for most of our Suns, so the machine has to stay up and usable. Over the past couple of weeks performance had [...]

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Tobias is looking for a German greenish kind of liberal New Labour party

15 March 2004

Tobias is looking for a German greenish kind of liberal New Labour party

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Going Out With a Whimper

14 March 2004

I’m glad I’m not a Spanish voter. With the tragedy in Madrid just days before todays election, the facts are still unclear, and and least from here it seems both main parties were trying to twist the facts to their advantage. The voters thought the ruling conservatives went too far, and despite leading the polls [...]

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You’re a handsome blog, what’s your owner’s name?

14 March 2004

You’re a handsome blog, what’s your owner’s name?

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Lyssa has moved

12 March 2004

Lyssa has moved

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Wikipedia: March 11, 2004 Madrid attacks

12 March 2004

Wikipedia: March 11, 2004 Madrid attacks

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Death in Madrid

11 March 2004

At 7:40 this morning my commuter train had pulled into the main station in Hamburg, and I was on my way to the U-Bahn to go work. At the same time in Madrid, 190 commuters in Madrid were killed by at least 10 explosions at 3 commuter stations. I can only think of the words [...]

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Köhler für Deutschland

10 March 2004

Chancellor Schröder may not give interviews to the Bild Zeitung, but Bundespresident candidate gave Bild an exclusive interview (and unlike the Bild home page, the link is safe for work, even for Americans). It’s a pro-CDU campaign from Bild, what else would you expect, but Köhler is saying a lot of the right things (quoting [...]

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50th anniversary of Southdale (Edina, MN), the first shopping mall

9 March 2004

Via dangerousmeta: 50th anniversary of the first shopping mall: Southdale (Edina, MN)

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iNotes Tech Support

9 March 2004

If your wife keeps bugging you because she can’t read her mail on Windows XP using iNotes with IE6 (“unable to process request”), try activating both boxes (use HTTP 1.1 / use HTTP 1.1 with proxy) under Internet Options -> Advanced -> HTTP 1.1 settings. Then maybe she can leave you alone

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