Someone decided to destroy one of the wind breaker panes at Braunschweig Central Station. Whomever you are, may I just say that you are very cool. Your friends were right to giggle and gasp at your "out-there"ed-ness.
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Tiny bit of frost…large amount of people caught in their warm-weather-hating hypocrisy as they complain (with gusto…) about the winter and how late it is.
My Skype credit is hovering around $0.00 as I make some Christmas calls here in Spain. Yesterday, I attempted to put $10 on my account with my Visa card. Everything went fine until a “verified by Visa” prompt came up during the order process.
Digression: This is some “feature” from Visa which intervenes during […]
Q: The Internet connection at school is currently as slow as?
A: Yes…as slow as the title of this post.
I’m downloading at a whopping 11.2 KB/s from a normally dependable server with over 30% packet loss. Shizzo.
A while ago a friend of mine asked me if I was “in VZ” (VZ is short for Verzeichnis, German for directory). I said “no” asking what the VZ was so he showed me his profile at studivz.net. There had been talk of Facebook going international. I thought that was what I was looking […]
Photoshop may very well be the industry standard tool but I think it fails miserably at doing several simple things well. I used to use Paint.NET on Windows. Now I’ve switched over to a Macbook and installed Photoshop thinking it’d be an upgrade of sorts. After 30 minutes of simply trying to make […]
Wolfenbüttel recently did a bit of spiffying up, and, in the progress, installed a decent looking sculpture near one of the parks. While walking to watch a movie at 10:00pm the other night, I got to witness an intoxicated man urinate on it (and sing to himself).
Sweet…
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Wha, wha, whaaaaaat? You can’t just park here?
Calabasas, CA banishes public smoking everywhere, indoor/outdoor in the entire city. A solution is still being worked-out for the second-hand dying from drunk drivers that continues to occur.
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It’s supposed to get down to -45°F / -43°C with windchill in South Dakota today! Why can’t I feel my face? I walked about 100 yards and was winded because it’s so naughty word cold out there!
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In Süd-Dakota sollen wir heute angeblich bis -43°C als gefühlte Temperatur haben. Warum spüre ich mein […]
Due to a slow building up of frustration with my hoster, I’m moving my website to:
mriedema.wordpress.com
and my e-mail address to:
mriedema@gmail.com
My old address and website will be active until May. All new posts will be put up on the new website.
See you there,
–Michael
OK…so I moved back after settling down and realizing that the new host […]
From an article on Slashdot covering an aspect of the WMF Windows exploit:
“…the exploit is arranged in such a manner that it cannot be detected by most intrusion detection systems (the snort rule will peg the CPU on your router) nor filtered by packet-inspecting firewalls (it spans two or more ethernet frames).”
Why oh why would […]
Due to a rather hardcore dose of German bureaucracy I was left without an Internet connection at home for the past….um….2352 hours. Let’s discuss:
Bright-eyed, happy-go-lucky American werewolf in paris Germany moves from rather funnily shaped 4th floor apartment to first floor roomily shaped apartment. At this point, two copper wires seperated me from […]
John Conyers and 88 members of congress are attempting to wake up the media a bit over the leaked Downing Street memo with an open letter to the president. The memo (written in July 2002) goes so far as to lay out ways to “shape public opinion” in favor of the war. Nice. […]
