Archive for November, 2005

Open or closed

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Currently I’m reading my friends degree dissertation about ‘Strategic management in IT: Balance between open and closed’. Obviously he is interested in my opinion, cause I always support or let’s say spread the word about anything open and I’m convinced by using open standards, the bazaar model, collaboration/syndication and so forth. So I’m really looking [...]

Happy ham remover

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Tim wrote about How to not be removed from a newsletter. I just searched for mailoff_m.php3 and found points24.com. According to Tim they have 4.000.000 subscribers. More or less willingly, if you read this thread (including unwillingly Tim). So he is right in asking, what to do!?

Yaid!

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Tonight: Yaid!
Walter said it’s free for every blogger, hehe.

House of Cosbys

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

Go and get all episodes here. It’s a great cartoon, but Bill Cosbys lawyers already stopped the original creators Comic Sacrifice from publishing them on their website.

Call-A-Bike

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

In some german cities you can easily rent a bike. Just register your bank account and mobile number, call the number on the bike and it gets unlocked. I’m a regular user of these bikes, it’s cheaper than a taxi and the bikes are standing everywhere in the city.
On Sunday I took such a [...]

Burda Media

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

According to this article the german print company Burda is planning to use social software to have closer relationships with their readers. The article also mentions a statement of Andre Remke (Analyst of HypoVereinsbank) that the main competitors of Tomorrow Focus AG are Yahoo and Google. WTF? I never visited this site before, but the [...]

Mission accomplished

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

Yesterday I completed my dentist mission. Finally I have some bling bling in mouth

Switched to Ubuntu

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Last week I got my desktop/server working again. A few months ago my old Pentium 1GHz said goodbye. Now a Sempron 2800+ with 1 GB RAM is doing its job. I replaced my X-less Gentoo with Ubuntu Breezy. Up and running in 30 Min. Enjoying the fresh gnome installation I thought about how much time [...]

Here we are

Monday, November 7th, 2005

Finally, Hallmackenreuther is getting crowded. Lucky I have a nice seat on the couch next to Hanna drinking cold beer. This is definitly fun here, looking forward for the presentations. Say hello to me I’m wearing the CCC keyboard-redstar shirt

Webmontag

Monday, November 7th, 2005

I’m attending webmontag in Cologne tomorrow. It’s inspired by adhoc conventions like barcamp, tagcamp and wiki wednesday. Thanks to Tim Bonneman for the idea and the wiki. Stefan will talk about plazes and lots of interesting people are coming.
Webmontag
Hallmackenreuther, Br