Getting older

Since nobody from my online life seems to have noticed – I celebrated my birthday yesterday. There were a few automated mails from several forums of course. The nicest one coming from the Friends of Laphroaig, who sent me a nice postcard and a 10% discount in their online shop. Unfortunately the discount was only … [Read more…]

There are a few sites who managed to sneak around Firefox’ popup blocker. While checking out Yahoo Mail the other day, I got this popup: I’m reluctant to admit that I have no clue. I heard of Shakira, but as far as I know she’s a Latina and the woman on the pic doesn’t look … [Read more…]

Thanks to Xeni of BoingBoing I spent a wonderful weekend walking down memory lane. On two recent postst Xeni told about her first time viewing of Raumpatrouille Orion episodes: This is so awesome. I grew up the child of a trekkie, and have a genetically-ingrained fondness for scifi teevee of this era — but I’d … [Read more…]

heise.de reports that the University of California , San Diego (UCSD) has released the sourcecode of their UCSD-Pascal to the public to be used for educational purposes. UCSD-Pascal was the first programming language I got taught – the first I learned on my own was Commodore Basic. I was in the first age-group ever who … [Read more…]

We now have Battlestar Galactica on TV. Since I kinda liked the original series when I was a teenager, I had a look at the pilot and the first sequel. The idea for the new series is nice: the new plot is 40 years after the original one. The ship itself is about to be … [Read more…]

Many years ago, I moved to this town to start studies in Electrical Engineering. My parents weren’t the richest ones, so rather early I needed to get a student’s job to earn some money. I ended up with a company whose boss was a visioneer. Back then, he postualted that it makes more sense to … [Read more…]