From the monthly archives:

September 2006

Microwave Chocolate-Chip Pancakes and Sausage on a Stick

30 September 2006

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links for 2006-09-30

30 September 2006

Minnesota Piranhas T-Shirts “They are dangerous and hungry” – Ozzie Guillen (tags: minnesota twins piranhas t-shirt)

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Ausländerkarte – Don’t Leave Home Without It

29 September 2006

Yesterday the German Interior Ministry announced the introduction of a personal id card for foreign residents, an Aufenthaltskarte similar the the Personalausweis issued to German citizens. I’m not so hot about all my personal data on a digitally readable smart card, but it will be practical to be able to leave my passport at home [...]

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Germany Invaded By Giant Insect

29 September 2006

I should pay better attention to Slashdot, then I would have known that Germany has been invaded by a giant insect. The proof is at Google Maps. Good thing that I saw this at Transblawg, I might still have time to protect our home by activating our giant insect defences.

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I Sleep

29 September 2006

NDRInfo radio this morning broadcast a short profile of Volkswagen brand chairman Wolfgang Bernhard, the cost-cutting manager who formerly worked for Chrysler in the US. He’s apparently very dry and businesslike. When asked the difference between working in the US and in Germany, he replied:

In Germany I am called Dr. Bernhard, in the [...]

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links for 2006-09-29

29 September 2006

MySQL Backup And Recovery With mysql-zrm On Debian Sarge | HowtoForge (tags: zmanda zrm mysql backup)

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links for 2006-09-28

28 September 2006

Joe Mathlete Explains Today’s Marmaduke Funnier than the real thing. Usually. (tags: comics marmaduke blog) [...]

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Starbucks Too Late

27 September 2006

Starbucks has finally arrived in Hamburg, about a decade too late (photo stolen from Anke Gröner, I hope she doesn’t mind… it’s not like I ever get to downtown anymore).

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Water Slide

26 September 2006

Yesterday could be the last nice sunny day we have this year, so I took Christopher back to Planten un Blomen in the afternoon, this time with his swimming suit. I sat on the sidelines and read Bloglines Mobile.

We were there 3 hours, I hope he was tired out.

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links for 2006-09-26

26 September 2006

Open for Discussion: McDonald’s Corporate Responsibility Blog Official McD Corporate Blog (tags: mcd “corporate responsibility” pr via:quickservekids.com) [...]

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OpenBC to become Xing

25 September 2006

It’s so hard to keep a secret these days, just ask lonelygirl15. OpenBC, the business and social networking site based in Hamburg, will be changing its name to Xing later this month. This was confirmed in the OpenBC blog after a couple of webloggers found the name in domain and trademark searches. The goal was [...]

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Playground at Planten un Blomen

24 September 2006

MamaMaus had to work today, but she took us along to Hamburg so we could go watch ice hockey. But the highlight for Christopher was the big playground (St. Petersburger Straße) at the Planten un Blomen park. It was new for us, too. They have a lot of water toys, (hand pumps, dams with trenches, [...]

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links for 2006-09-22

22 September 2006

McDonald’s may sell breakfast all day – CEO Just what the world needs, an Egg McMuffin in the evening (tags: mcd)

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Stutter Group

21 September 2006

After having had the summer off, Christopher had his first speech therapy session today. A clinic in Hamburg has started a stutter group for children aged 6 to 8 with 2 therapists and 9 children that will meet for 90 minutes every Thursday. The therapy has a large social component, simply bringing them together so [...]

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Trash your computer

21 September 2006

Ongoing, Trash your computer

“These days, I want to stuff my Dell in the nearest trash compactor and do everything on my Blackberry. The computer, it’s real work to manage, and I can read whatever anyone sends me on the Blackberry, almost.” Is this the future?

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Baltic Whackjobs

18 September 2006

In elections yesterday in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the poorest German state, the far-right National Democratic Party earned 7.3% of the vote, enough to enter parliament. As always when the far-right does well in an election, there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the German media. Doug Merrill at A Fistful of Euros is not quite [...]

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Gammelgemuse

16 September 2006

For 3 weeks now we’ve been hearing about the tons Gammelfleisch, or putrid meat, being found in the meat lockers of Germany, and how long the authorities knew about it before it was made public. The best comment I saw on it was at Rainy Day, which cited The Jungle, the classic American exposé of [...]

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How to keep your cell phone from disrupting family time

16 September 2006

On Balance, the Washington Post blog on “Juggling Work and Family” Five Tricks to Tame Technology:

Don’t like your Treo buzzing at dinner? The solution is pretty simple. Shut it off. Or throw it into the Potomac. You own the device, not the other way around.

(via parent hacks)

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links for 2006-09-16

16 September 2006

Target practice 2 : Ultra Monkey 3 with RHEL4 ES : Eelco (tags: um3 rhel4 ultramonkey redhat loadbalancing linux)

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Han Shot First. Really.

14 September 2006

My son was born 30 years to late to believe it, but kottke gets it right. The movies don’t have numbers, they’re called Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi. Some lame prequels came later. And Han shot first. Really.

I doubt that I’ll buy the new original version DVDs, though. How much money does George Lucas need, [...]

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GEZ: The Coinslot on your PC

14 September 2006

The powers that be in German public broadcasting are currently deciding how to collect fees from computer users starting in 2007. Public broadcasting is currently financed by fees from TV and radio owners, €17.03 a month per household or business (€5.52 for radio only). It’s kind of like pledge week for US public television, except [...]

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links for 2006-09-14

14 September 2006

Susanne Mayer: The mighty hausfrau – signandsight the lost potential that the German housewife represents (tags: hausfrau housewife Germany family)

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Moral Equivalence

12 September 2006

I wasn’t going to write anymore on 9/11 this year, my entry on Sunday pretty much summed up how I feel 5 years later. But 2 posts from German blogs that usually don’t discuss politics really got under my skin.

Telagon Sichelputzer, True 9/11 Memorial:

With all due respect to the losses to the attack [...]

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links for 2006-09-12

12 September 2006

Gojira -Just Shelley The orginal Japanese Gojira from 1954 and the Americanized Godzilla from 1956 together on DVD (tags: gojira godzilla dvd) [...]

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links for 2006-09-11

11 September 2006

The MythTV Convergence | Tom’s Hardware (tags: mythtv) OS X Applications for System and Network Administrators » Nirlog.com [...]

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Santana on the Mound

10 September 2006

10 strikeouts for Johan Santana. It’d be nice if the score holds up… but watching the Twins live from my dining room table in Germany. Isn’t the Internet grand? Too bad they don’t play more afternoon games, the 7 hour time difference makes night games somewhat unpractical…

Update: They held the lead… 12-1 the [...]

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Smart and Stupid

10 September 2006

Laura of 11D, Bridging the Gap Between Smart and Stupid:

There is a growing gulf between smart and stupid on the Internet. This blog does its best to keep a foot in both camps.

Funny thing is, there’s so much stupid stuff going on the Internet that you can’t guess which one she’s talking about [...]

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Five Years

10 September 2006

Jeffrey Zeldman, Five Years:

I’ve dug up some things I wrote from New York City and posted here on September 11th 2001 and in the first days following… These mini-essays are not art. They are not reportage, either (but what is?), and may not even be accurate. We were all a bit dazed—although not [...]

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23rd Anniversary

10 September 2006

On this weblog I missed our wedding anniversary on the 6th, that day 23 years ago when we were still young, dumb and excited. Here I tend to forget our anniversary as often as I remember. We didn’t forget it in real life though. On Wednesday morning MamaMaus and I managed to exchange a couple [...]

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Aliens at Roswell

9 September 2006

They are among us. Immigration arrests 15 aliens in Roswell working for U.S. military contractor. Now that’s what I call outsourcing.

Via newsrack.

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