From the monthly archives:

September 2007

Deutschland Weltmeister. Again.

30 September 2007

It was worth mentioning the first time 4 years ago, and even more so today. Germany defeated Brazil 2-0 to win their second straight Women’s World Cup. Germany did not give up a single goal in the tournament, and keeper Nadine Angerer stopped a penalty and a number of good shots to ensure the win.

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Adieu DB

29 September 2007

PapaScott (the blog, not the man) took an unexpected massage the past couple of days. My MySQL database seems to have disappeared from my hoster, just a couple of days after upgrading to WordPress 2.3. I didn’t have time to track down the problem, I simply restored the last backup dump (which I mail to [...]

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Bike Tour

21 September 2007

We’re home from our meetings, which was indeed on board the AIDAaura cruise ship which was chartered for the occasion. We sailed a circle from Palma de Mallorca to Cannes and Barcelona, then back to Palma.

For our shore leaves we chose to take mountain bike tours. Here I am yesterday in front of the Palau [...]

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Radio Silence

16 September 2007

We’ll be away a few days attending a licensee meeting. It’s at a conference center literally in the middle of nowhere, but we’ll have plenty of time for R and R. Oma will be at home with Christopher, and we’ll be back Friday.

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Google Map

15 September 2007

We’ve finally got a couple of current entries on the home page for the restaurant, so it looks almost weblog-like, and we finally have a satellite image from Google Maps. The toughest part was figuring out how to customize the icon without it getting squished (hint: the graphic file has to be square, since it [...]

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Give Blood. Play Rugby.

13 September 2007

The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at our restaurant in Dibbersen on 18 September from 14:00 to 20:00, for those who prefer to give blood without playing rugby.

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Branding Light

7 September 2007

It’s not yet the meter-high arches we have planned, but it’s a start.

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24th Anniversary

6 September 2007

I was just directed to make the same blog posting* that I make every year on this date (or close to it). Ok, here it is.

Let it be known that I gave my wife 20 beautiful flowers from a meadow (Wiesn) in Munich. I would have bought 24, but the 0.5 liter bottles came only [...]

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Google Reader Search

6 September 2007

Cool! Google has now implemented search in Google Reader, so you can now find important stuff you know you saw once in one of your feeds.

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Sewage Pump

5 September 2007

Our German word for today is Hebeanlage, and what happens when it clogs up.

Actually, since Hebeanlage is a sewage pump, you can probably imagine what happens, and don’t particularly want to know any details. So I’ll just say that it was, and it did. And it’s fixed, at least for now.

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Web 0.1

1 September 2007

We haven’t done as much as we’ve wanted with http://www.mcdonalds-nordheide.de/, the homepage for our restaurant, not yet anyway. For the past few weeks we just haven’t had the time, since we’ve both been immersed full-time in day-to-day operations.

Frauke’s been waiting for me to set up a form for customer feedback, and I finally have a [...]

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