October 2004

Lack of Respect

30 October 2004

If nothing else, the

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Switching to del.icio.us

30 October 2004

hebig.org: Switching to del.icio.us for quick links. An idea good enough to steal, er, I mean, use myself.

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Saved Again, For Now

29 October 2004

As I alluded to a couple of days ago, my employer was once again on the brink of insolvency this week. And once again, they have won a reprieve, for at least a few weeks. The employees agreed to defer most of their October salaries until December, when a recapitalization is planned, a condition for [...]

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The Security of Checks and Balances

29 October 2004

Schneier on Security: The Security of Checks and Balances “I don’t believe that John Kerry, if elected, would willingly lessen his own power any more than second-term President Bush would. What the US needs is a strong Congress and a strong court system to balance the presidency, not weak ones ceding ever more power to [...]

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Kohl Groupies

28 October 2004

Kohl Groupies (via lummaland)

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Cursed

28 October 2004

Red Sox win World Series “It was Boston’s sixth championship, but the first after 86 years of frustration and futility, after two world wars, the Great Depression, men on the moon, and the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.” Just so HSV fans know how long a curse can last.

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Freedom of Movement

27 October 2004

The Aardvark Speaks: The freedom of movement With Schengen, you can travel throughout Europe without showing a passport. Unless you take a night train. Or wear a leather jacket. (Or aren’t European, but that’s beside the point.)

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Sheet Music

27 October 2004

Listening to weblogs being read aloud on stage seems to me as exciting as, say, listening to sheet music being read aloud while watching paint dry, but if you’re into that sort of thing, Heiko and Nico were in Berlin last night doing just that. No word on whether the paint was dry by the [...]

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Bild Zeitung endorses Bush

27 October 2004

Bild Zeitung endorses Bush (via itw)

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Time is Money

26 October 2004

The next couple of weeks I might have very little time to write here, as the wife is in Budapest this week and then next week off to Sydney for 10 days, leaving the men alone at home. On the other hand, I might soon have all the time in the world to write for [...]

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But will it work abroad?

25 October 2004

Clientcopia: “It’s a nice idea. – but will it work abroad?” That could almost be a tagline… (Via ameisendorf.)

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Don’t Hit On Him

25 October 2004

Who needs social software when you have a blog and an accordion? “Don’t hit on the Accordion Guy! I read he’s engaged!”

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Marching Orders to Vote

25 October 2004

Why is it that any time Spiegel Online reports on a topic about which I have personal knowledge, they turn out to be completely full of shit? Latest case in point, Marching Orders to Vote, in which the Bush Administration is supposedly hindering civilian expats from voting. Bullshit. Thanks to the fvap.gov website, it was [...]

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Bloglines Timestamps

23 October 2004

I finally my blogoll working with timestamps from Bloglines, using their API. It would be nice if Bloglines had a lastItem function, where you could get the latest n items for any feed. But you can only get the unread items or all items after a certain date/time. You also cannot be sure that the [...]

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Telegraph | News | Guardian calls it quits in Clark County fiasco

22 October 2004

Telegraph: Guardian calls it quits in Clark County fiasco (Via Bite The Wax Tadpole.)

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If They Come to Protect You, Run

22 October 2004

Shark Blog points to an article on the book “Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures”, chronicling UN peacekeeping failures. “If blue-helmeted U.N. peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run. Or else get weapons. Your lives are worth so much less than theirs.” I’ll have to remember this next [...]

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Real Stars

22 October 2004

Thanks to vasili, we now have some real gold star stickers for Christopher. As you see, we’ve already used all the big ones. They glitter so much, they are nearly impossible to scan or photograph.

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Liquidity Squeeze

21 October 2004

Last night my employer issued an Ad-Hoc Release that we are suffering from a Liquiditätsengpass. In English, I guess that means we won’t be seeing our salaries anytime soon. No news to us, but it was news to the stock market.

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Same Applies to Bayern München

21 October 2004

Comment in Political Animal: “I really really really hate the Yankees. More than brussel sprouts. More than wet socks. More than ice cream headaches. A lot.”

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Enough with the US election

19 October 2004

Bjørn Stærk: Enough with the US election “You get a sense of how intertwined European and American culture has become, and how much of a one-way relationship it is, when you look at the amount of press coverage the US election receives here. It may seem obvious to my American readers that their election should [...]

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Dead-End Job

19 October 2004

Maybe it’s just me, but I would think that being laid off by General Motors would be a good chance for me to take stock of my life, leave a dead-end industry, and find a real job. Although I guess the fact that I was working for General Motors would be a sign I hadn’t [...]

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CSS tinkering: font size

18 October 2004

Webpropaganda: CSS tinkering: font size 62.5%, the magic number. Finally ems make sense. Immediately inserted here.

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U better get busy if U wanna get paid

18 October 2004

If anyone is keeping track, I still haven’t received my September salary (although the firm has made a €1000 partial payment to each employee). Late payments… this is starting to feel like free-lance work, only without the freedom.

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Spampot

18 October 2004

Last Tuesday I quietly installed MT-Blacklist and opened comments on all of my previous blog entries. The first spam arrived the next day. The statistics for the past 5 days are: * Comment spams blocked: 285 * Comment spams moderated: 3 (of which 2 were truly spam) * Comment spams posted: 0

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Sticker Shock

17 October 2004

Haughty Bill: “Yesterday I stopped into one of the local liquor stores to buy a bottle of Merlot wine. My favorite. OMG! Sticker shock! They want $10.50 for my $5 bottle of wine in Germany.” Not everything is better in the States…

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Conquerors or Liberators Revisited

17 October 2004

Allow me to repeat myself: “Even in April (2003) it was clear that an troops would be in Iraq for at least two years, well past the 2004 election. And I also remember thinking back then that, from his timing of the war, President Bush was handing the fate of his re-election away from US [...]

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Lantern March

16 October 2004

Last night we hosted a Laternenumzug for Christopher’s Tagesmutter, even though Christopher has now graduated to Kindergarten and no longer attends day care. We had about 16 parents and 8 children marching in the drizzle through the fields with paper lanterns. We set up hay bales and some Halloween decorations in the carport, and offered [...]

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Butt Out!

16 October 2004

Adventures of an American Girl in Germany: What Arrogance “The Guardian, a UK newspaper, has an article urging Europeans concerned about the US Election to write a personal letter to people living in Clark County, Ohio…” Like she says, butt out! Or would you like our CIA to influence your election?

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Chilling out the Burger King

16 October 2004

code: theWebSocket: Chilling out the Burger King “One of my patients had been having it his way down at the local Burger King when the elephant joined him for lunch and made itself at home on his chest…” I love it when Alwin talks shop.

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Morality

15 October 2004

“Europeans insist that they’re morally superior to Americans” asserts a recent article at Chicago Boyz. Is that true? (That’s a double question. For extra credit in the comments, answer both.)

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