Monthly Archive: June 2008

Jun
30

New Toy – TomTom Go930T

Yep, that’s right. After doing quite some detours and swearing that I seem to be incapable of finding a place somewhere further away, I’ve finally got myself a Navigation system. I already had some navigation aids, even TomTom. But it was always installed on a PDA using a Bluetooth GPS receiver. IF it worked, it …

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Jun
23

Un-Friendly

Last Friday some friends and I visited the Zurich FanZone. It was the game Croatia vs. Turkey which ended in Turkeys favor. But first things first… We arrived in the game break, which was about the worst time to arrive. There were endless queues in front of the Food- and Beer stalls. After some queuing …

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Jun
19

Customer Service

End of February we ordered a Broadband Cable connection for our Backup-Office (on the other end of the country). Last week, the Cable-Modem finally arrived (Remark: 3.5 months later). Our guy there connected the Modem and … drumroll please … it didn’t work. Today I called the help-line, hoping that they could tell me if …

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Jun
12

InfBr5 hits the Internet

Today I had the new edition of “Armee aktuell”, a magazine for the members of the Infantry Brigade 5. Unlike magazines of some other formations of the swiss army, this one is not so strict army-style. You get reports about the last WK of all battallions in the brigade and whats coming up in the …

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Jun
05

World Records

The world is mad, and the world wants mad world records. This I know for sure. Thats why I support the Firefox Download-Day 2008. The Goal of this event is to achieve the most downloads ever in 24 hours. Guess the Download-day will be somewhere in june or july. I Wonder if the Servers will …

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