May 2004

Converted

31 May 2004

I’ve done it. Encouraged among other things by a persistent comment spammer, I’ve now converted this blog to WordPress 1.2. At the same time, my permalinks are now cool hyphenated-titles-like-Shelley-and-Mark, so I must be cool now as well. Of course the old links are redirected… well, most of them anyway. And I wanted to redo [...]

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Pentecost Singers

30 May 2004
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The Uschi Principle

29 May 2004

A couple of weeks ago one of my co-workers told me, “Well, your wife’s no Uschi.” I wasn’t sure what he was talking about, but thanks to the Abendblatt, now I know. Uschis are women who are “blond, naive, helpless and successful”, who are able to get men to do everything for them. A Verona [...]

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Simultaneous Translation

28 May 2004

Interviews with RyanAir CEO are always colorful, so it was especially kind of Spiegel Online to provide the original English version of their interview along with the German version. This is the first time I’ve noticed a online publication doing this. If it happened more often, we’d probably see less poorly translated quotes like the [...]

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Health Insurance

27 May 2004

My American readers might not be familiar with the concept, so let me explain how it works. When I hurt my leg the other day, I was able to leave work early. It doesn’t count against any time off or anything, and nothing gets docked off my pay. And when I went to the specialist [...]

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How Did Schröder Win?

27 May 2004

In citing a rant about the anti-American German press (ironically, from a German journalist in the German press), Eamonn makes the assertion (common among warbloggers) that “only by cynical Bush-baiting (did Schröder) manage to cling to power”. I’m just wondering, is there any political data to either back this up or refute this? My gut [...]

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I wish Germany had an Accordian Guy

26 May 2004

Hey, maybe now that Germany is finally going to get an immigration law (though I won’t believe it until I see it), maybe it’ll be lucky enough someday to get guys like Joey. But only if Germany is very, very lucky.

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Ja, Nico, mache ich schon

26 May 2004

Lummaland: TellAnAmericanToVote.com

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Nothing Broken, Nothing Torn

26 May 2004

So, having jumped through all the hoops at the specialist and family doctor this morning, I’m now sure that I didn’t do any permanent damage to my knee yesterday. I probably stretched a ligament in the knee capsule, which is now inflamed. The pain will subside with rest and ice, although last evening I also [...]

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To-Do List

25 May 2004

Compared to yesterday, my to-do list for today is a breeze. Stumble on steps at S-Bahn station Sternschanze on the way to work and twist knee. Do not notice pain at first. When at noon walking becomes extremely uncomfortable, go home. Find that family doctor has no office hours this afternoon. Go to pharmacy and [...]

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Typo3 for Mac OS X

25 May 2004

Typo3 for Mac OS X

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Seven tricks that Web users don’t know

25 May 2004

Via Pepilog: Seven tricks that Web users don’t know

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Ping-O-Matic

24 May 2004

Ping-o-Matic; MetaPinging at http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

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Tomorrow

23 May 2004

MamaMaus goes back to work tomorrow after 8 weeks sabbatical. Tomorrow she takes the first flight to Munich for 3 days of meetings. Her alarm is set for 4 am. Christopher’s day care is on vacation. We have a substitute, whom I have never met. But I have written down her address. She expects to [...]

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Foo Content Bar

23 May 2004

WordPress (which has now released 1.2) with its filtering capability makes it real easy to solve one of my formatting quirks, namely that I want my titles and permalinks inline with the content of each post, i.e. within the p-tags that are automatically inserted around the post. With MT I had to install a regex [...]

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What was right then

21 May 2004

Sunday’s election of the German Bundespräsident is being overshadowed by the Nazi past of one of the delgates to the federal assembly that choose the president. Hans Filbinger, CDU, was a military judge for the Nazis, and in 1978 resigned as premier of Baden-Wuerttemberg state when his past came to light. At the time he [...]

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Strawberry Jam Bread with Honey

21 May 2004

This is a huge Shockwave download, but Christopher’s favorite webpage right now is the interactive animation “Tom und das Erdbeermarmeladebrot mit Honig” from Die Sendung mit Der Maus and narrated by Dirk Bach. Elementary knowledge of German required, and as a little spoiler, at the beginning it’s OK to ride the pig, but at the [...]

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Plugging and Hacking

21 May 2004

I’ve been playing a bit more with WordPress (for which there is a new release candidate since yesterday), and I’m reminded of what I didn’t like about it back when it was b2, and what I don’t like about Movable Type. With WordPress, if you want to do anything slightly different from what it intends [...]

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They’re only tools, and tools are not your friends

20 May 2004

Burningbird: They’re only tools, and tools are not your friends

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Father’s Day

19 May 2004

Heiko explains German Father’s Day: “Tomorrow is a national holiday in Germany; it’s church related, Ascension Day… Not coincidentally there also is Father’s Day tomorrow. It’s the day when fathers leave their family at home, get social with other fellow sufferers, and drink lots and lots of alcohol, all while cycling (or riding) through the [...]

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Kindergarten Watch

19 May 2004

Christopher had a busy day yesterday. Not only did he have his hearing checked (which he happily demonstrated on me last evening with his doctor kit: ‘Now the big bear and the little mouse are running in your ear!’). He also checked out the speech therapy kindergarten in Winsen. He loved it. The groups are [...]

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Love and Money

18 May 2004

(I’ve been corresponding with Heiko Hebig, who represents TypePad and Movable Type in Germany, about the new MT license.) Hi Heiko, The free version would be enough for PapaScott, but I’d already donated twice over the past couple of years and was looking forward to the Pro version. At any rate, on the first day [...]

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0xDECAFBAD: Use Atom for a Universal Blog Transfer Protocol

18 May 2004

0xDECAFBAD: Use Atom for a Universal Blog Transfer Protocol

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Dear Mena,

18 May 2004

Re: Six Log: How are you using the tool? I do pro-bono work on websites for several non-profit organizations. It would be prohibitively expensive to purchase a commercial license for each of these sites. Sincerely, Scott Hanson

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Postbank to offer instant transfers

18 May 2004

Postbank to offer instant transfers to internal accounts

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Can You Hear Me Now?

18 May 2004

Christopher had his follow-up exam at the ear/nose/throat specialist this morning. His hearing is now normal.

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MT to WordPress

16 May 2004

Some notes on importing MT entries into WordPress: The script in the WP RC uses the MT export file, so post numbers are not imported. That might be important if you use the post number in your permalink, like I do. MT 3.0 seems to have a bug in the export routine… the dates are [...]

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The SixApart solution: Divest TypePad

16 May 2004

BuzzMachine: The SixApart solution: Divest TypePad

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Six Apart Backpedals

15 May 2004

Six Apart backpedals on MT license

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Test Site

15 May 2004

On the other hand, the release candidate of WordPress gets a lot of things right on the first try.

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