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Archive for July 2007

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Away

I’m going away to the camping site in the German Eifel for a while. Don’t know when I’ll be back yet. When I get bored, I guess. Maybe I’ll leave a post or two, if I happen to find an Internet cafe or so. Otherwise, I’ll see you all when I get back. Please try … Read more


New hard disk

Today, I received a new hard disk drive for my MacBook. It’s a 2.5″ Western Digital Scorpio SATA drive, spinning at 5400 RPM, with 8 MB cache, and — here it comes — a dazzling 250 GB of storage capacity. Now that I’ve seen it up close (I’d never seen a naked 2.5″ hard disk … Read more

New iPod

Since a week or two ago my 20 GB 4th generation iPod died, I needed something else. As temporary substitute my phone (a Nokia N73) did nice, but a phone just isn’t designed to be an MP3 player. An iPod is. It just sounds better (with proper ear pieces). Back in late 2004, when I … Read more

Darkness…

It’s been raining on and off all day already, but suddenly I noticed it getting dark. Darker than usual. Really dark. Kinda spooky actually. Here’s a photo: Up untill now, it looks worse than it is. But I’ve learned never to say never… Update (18:43) Well, it still looks worse than it actually was. At … Read more

OpenID in comments

I’ve added the possibility to this site to post comments using your OpenID URI — not that a lot of people leave comments here, but I like OpenID, and so I like others to be able to use it, too. So if you want to comment using your OpenID URI, just enter it in the … Read more

Site tweaks

Now that I have ample time available, I’ve looked at some issues that I still had with this web site. First of all, the page navigation on the left was somewhat buggy. When one was somewhere inside the blog, the “Blog” item in the menu would not be highlighted. That’s been fixed. Secondly, the page … Read more