i'm off to münchen (aka munich) for a business meeting tomorrow. as i wanted to leave in the early afternoon, both deutsche bahn and SBB offer me two rather peculiar routes: i had thought i'd have to take an EC … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2006
that was winter…hello again, spring
192 at the beginning of the week we had sub 0° temperatures, last sunday it was bloody cold…since yesterday we have 17+°C! with 21°C forecast for monday and tuesdayafter church and a pot of tea we are off on a … Continue reading
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…stop press…canton of zĂĽrich provides linux version of income tax program…stop press…
it's time again for the yearly income tax declaration. being used to having to run windows for this i had my vmware with windows XP up and running and was using mozilla firefox from within vmware to download the local … Continue reading
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keeping secret email secret: FBI agents without email…
just read an article in today’s guardian about new york’s FBI agents being without email accounts — for monetary reasons. hmm. — but then, who needs email? i guess they have a postbox with the US postal service…which coming to think … Continue reading
a visit to north germany…
just back from a visit to my parents in north germany. it was a very nice weekend: weather was not too fantastic but also not too bad. it was good to have time to just catch up (and eat: i’ve … Continue reading
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puzzling sipgate.de…
as i wrote before i’m using sipgate.de for my VoIP calls. as i don’t really want to be bothered with recharging my prepaid sipgate account i signed up for the automatic account recharge and set the limit to €10.00. well, … Continue reading
the iPod…packaged by microsoft?
via jawbone a link to a “what would an iPod package look like had microsoft designed it” video on google video. nice. [gv data="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DlwAAAMSdEMdLTlxAJqWrKHFOfL9_8J7QdKXViyHXzabowVQknQIxTEk9vCahE6C92nIr3wea6Gb9KcW4BZjKF_QfmukXo7ANmX-6uKD7lZn29QVQlG160cGUQoajPMuK3J2Muow07Bxp1frRqcn2dDnAASKe1pnsif7nj-MwSLwZ9SUZyZeV8uR5qZYWW7LmV5g25AR7bbUUnK-f95AugLtwi2E%26sigh%3DPvx6lRsD0ptCErvjVmmHTnvXJ_w%26begin%3D0%26len%3D175300%26docid%3D36099539665548298&thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer%3Fcontentid%3Dcfb5206c14e8604a%26second%3D5%26itag%3Dw320%26urlcreated%3D1145215831%26sigh%3DHso0DDcO5lzHai3Y1gLTvtXd-OE&playerId=36099539665548298" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" scale="noScale" wmode="window" salign="TL"Â FlashVars="playerMode=embedded"][/gv] p.s.: according to iPodObserver the video was produced by…microsoft … Continue reading
dining with ex-chancellor schröder in zĂĽrich…
tonight good friends from the UK (who were on their way to a week of skiing) and i met for a relaxed evening in one of zĂĽrich’s swiss restaurants in oberdorf. we had a rather good time, chatting and swapping … Continue reading
photos back in place & a picture a day now reverse sorted…
i’m slowly getting all the various bits and pieces back into place. first on my list was getting my picture collection linked back in: which is done now (along with apache rewrite rules for all those old links). then my … Continue reading
site relaunch…3…2…1…lift-off!
as you might have noticed: good old d2h.net looks different! yep, i switched (while you were not looking, yes) the underlying blog system from blosxom to wordpress. most of the stuff is already migrated. some of the layout elements (logo, … Continue reading
fixing that dangling lens cover
while taking photos this week i was once more annoyed by the dangling lens cover of my camera — it was constantly getting into my way and blinging around. i don’t know why i hadn’t had the idea earlier but … Continue reading
