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Moo!

So, my very funky Moo cards arrived the other day… They’re uber-pretty, even if they are taken from my photos, and the presentation was an object lesson in shiny

Unfortunately, I’m currently holding off on ordering a bunch of them, because of the text on the back… I wanted to have my name – [...]

Bis auf weiteres…

I have no hot water in my apartment. Not even lukewarm. Haven’t had since Sunday. The weather has turned, it’s grey, wet, and kinda chilly (at least compared to the last few weeks). I’m somewhat less than impressed. Many thanks to Emer, who came to the rescue by letting me use her shower – it’s [...]

Hände weg!

I don’t even know where to start. I’ve had a number of incidents in the past where I’ve been touched in ways I don’t want to be. Most recently, I was out in the park yesterday evening, walking over to the Olympiastadion, to get a look at the sunset and to just get outside for [...]

A kernel-guru would have been better

Ugo Cei chimes in with his (€|$)0.02 on the whole RocketBoom thang… And it just makes me wonder, would anyone have made a comment like that about a bloke? I’m curious.

Is Ugo Cei still COO for SourceSense? If it is so, I would like to suggest that Gianugo hire Linus Torvalds instead. For Ugo can [...]

Frustration!

It’s been a great weekend, but I’ve just found out something horrifically frustrating

Expect more blogging on the weekend when I get to Germany (just in the airport now), but I want to get the frustration out of my system first

My Google Summer of Code application looks highly likely to be rejected. [...]

Hints

I’ve had a few of these collected for a while – so here you go…

Hint: If your microwave has a grill function, and you wish to use this to toast a bread roll – make sure that the dial is set to ‘grill’, and not ‘high’, before putting in the bread roll on the metal [...]

Sons and Daughters, Men and Women

For all you budding parents out there: there’s really no point at which it’s appropriate to tell your daughter that she should have been a boy, unless she is undergoing/has undergone appropriate gender-identity therapy.

Buying a penknife, multi-purpose tool, or general gadget, does not mean that your daughter should have been a boy. It means she’s [...]

What an odd day…

Today is turning into a truly bizarre day. I’m blogging this, because I suspect that otherwise, I’ll have to write it out several times.

In response to the Minister for Health saying that the health service was such a state because consultants were only available 9-5, Dad wrote a letter to the paper last week. He [...]

Stuff and Things

So, not for the first time in the land of high-speed internet, I find myself without internet access that I’ve paid for (yes, I pay for my connection – it’s one of the ‘Nebenkosten’ in my rent). I had some connectivity on Monday evening, and Tuesday & yesterday it seemed to work between about noon [...]

Eww, icky, gross!!!

Ewww! I can’t say this enough times… I’ve just taken a jar of Frankfurters out of my fridge… According to the label, they should be good until 16.11.2007, if kept below 25°C. I’m pretty confident my fridge stayed below that temperature, although naturally I can’t be certain. The jar was still sealed, with both the [...]