Monthly Archive: February 2008

Feb
26

Money, money, money

It’s interesting about what subjects people create studies. A good example is the love-life of the desert mouse This one is just about as useful, but very amusing I never thought that there would be such a difference in methods across the world, fascinating….. found on BloggingTom’s Blog

Feb
22

Airblade? Airblade!

Yesterday, as I did a small “Tour de Suisse” for my job, I stopped at a roadhouse for a break. While washing my hands after using the restroom I was looking for the hand-dryer (since there was no paper-dispenser). Well, i couldn’t see any. I was already thinking “Damn it, I’ll have to walk out …

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Feb
21

New Plugins UPDATED

I’m about to test out some new plugins for this blog. First one to go is the PoWPoll written by Lyn4. Here we go: [poll:2] UPDATE: Unfortunately, the PowPoll Addon didnt quite work as expected. I’m now running WP-Polls written by Lester Chan. It comes along with a widget that embeds your polls in your …

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Feb
19

Interesting Map-Applications

Many of you know that you can match Googlemaps with all sorts of location data. Here is a Mashup from the Zurich School of Engineering showing Flight movements over Switzerland using Transponder data. OK, I’ve already known that one. At some point in our lives, we all stood at the train station waiting for our …

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Feb
18

Burning Feeds

I’m proud to announce that i’ve successfully implemented feedburner in my blog (at least i hope). Many of you know, i’m very keen on statistics, thats why I took this step. So, if anyone still uses the old link, please re-subscribe using the following links for the blog feed and the comments feed. Let me …

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Feb
15

Media-Mania: Hamburger baptism

Everyone that has served in the Swiss army will know the term “Hamburgertaufe”. Currently, a “Media-Mania” about this rite is going through the swiss media. Most of the articles report of excessive abuse of alcohol and neglecting the dignity of the “Hamburgers”. From my point of view, this is a subject which is hyped by …

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Feb
13

Free Internet

The swiss commuter-newspaper “20 Minuten” reported, that Sunrise offers a free ADSL-Link worth CHF 69.– if you get all your telecommunication services from them. This means land line, mobile phone and obviously ADSL. See here for the full article (German)

Feb
13

For the looks

The default-Theme of WordPress is nice n’ clean. but it seems a bit mainstream to me. Currently I’m checking out some other themes from the WordPress Theme Database. So don’t be surprised if my blog looks different from time to time. Of course I would be happy if you left a comment on how you …

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Feb
08

The Open-Air season is (almost) opened!

Yesterday the first Acts were announced for the Open Air Gampel. And guess what: NIGHTWISH is coming! YAY!!! After i’ve missed the gig of Within Temptation last year, I’ll put all my effort in that I can see this year’s appearance of one of my favourite bands. Think i’ll have to get started in planning …

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