What a cool datestamp

Nice date for a blogging entry… Update: I was informed that this date and the (invisible) timestamp has a certain meaning for the followers of the occult. This was of course not my intention for posting it. It was the beauty of the numbers itself.

May 25 – Towel Day (among others)

Today is a public holiday in Germany. The official reason is of course Ascension. But today is also Towel Day – in memoriam Douglas Adams. Before I realized the coinciding of the two dates I planned to take my towel to work. OK, better luck next year.

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The leading German IT newschannel heise.de reports that Windows Vista developers will get paid 100 US$ in cash for each bug they find over the weekend. The bounty was announced by Senior VP Brian Valentine on Friday, according to heise.de. Scott Adams had a similar idea back in 1995 for one of his Dilbert strips. … [Read more…]

1 year of blogging

So. has it really been a year already? Unbelievable. So let’s see what this year in the “blogosphere” (I still don’t like the word) achieved: Creating a place to collect some random thoughts: Check! Learn how blogging works and what’s it all about: Check! Remain current with events and developments: No check. Develop a network … [Read more…]

Linux saved my afternoon

We had a scheduled downtime for our network infrastructure yesterday late afternoon. Our utilities company had to turn off the power for half an hour, so we took the opportunity to do some rewiring and some recalibration work on our USV. When power was restored, we booted the servers, switches, routers and PBX again – … [Read more…]

Deep down in work

Just a quick note to let you know I’m still around. It was quite a busy time since I last posted. There was CeBIT which I visited again after a 1-year pause, then we moved offices and finally we founded a spin-off company. Each of these issues came along with huge chunks of work and … [Read more…]