Archives for August 2005
This is why this country goes down the drains…
What do you get when a world wide global player in ERP and e-commerce solutions and the leading german telco and internet provider team up to build a ticketing solution based on the web application solution platform from the largest and most profitable software company in the world?
To build a ticketing solution for the […]
A kangaroo?
According to local newspapers and radio stations, there is a kangaroo in Erlangen on the loose. Yep. A kangaroo. However, just a small one.
erlangen kangaroo
Terror alerts and witch hunts
Last weeks’ terror alert in the city of Hamburg with more than 1000 police men in the streets was probably due to a “misunderstanding” in an overhead conversation, according to a Spiegel news magazine report.
Gee, I wonder if these guys have ever read James Thurber and the proper gander…
misunderstanding proper gander terror alert
Death of (a few) tape drives…
Lately, it seems that I have no luck with my tape drives. First my good old trustworthy (and no longer in production because the company went bankrupt) Onstream ADR-60 tape died.
Yesterday the Sony SDT-9000 DDS-3 Tape in my ADIC changer choked itself on a cartridge (it is solidly wedged in. Even disassembling the drive and […]
Scary…
Sometimes it is scary how blogs and blog aggregators mesh entries together…
Just a few seconds ago on Planet Apache. Right next to each other:
Ben Hyde about the most severe storm for more than 30 years to be expected in New Orleans
Davanum Srinivas about a project called “OpenStorm”.
angst coincidence