Monthly Archives: August 2008

understanding user interfaces, part 1

As much as I dislike rants on this blog, there’s nothing worse about local public transport in the Rhein-Main area (Frankfurt am Main et al) than this ticket machine in use at all metro stations:

Even though the menu is …

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How to Lose a Girl in 10 Seconds

“What’s an *unboxing video*?”, she asked, and I showed her the following one:

“Dude……”, she answered, “you and your nerd stuff”.

:-)

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microwars

Ok ok, while I can perfectly attribute this “seniormost” to the peculiar psyche of some folks out there, why-o-why is Githongo labeled as “runnaway bureaucrat” on the English page of “Kikuyu” @ Wikipedia?

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Mobile Citizen Reporter

Just in line with my previous series on mobile blogging, check out the following:

Add this for other mobile operating systems (other than Nokia’s S60 line – though Series 60 is quite good for this special task), combine it with …

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never change a running system

The missing ability to run a simple cronjob on my 1&1 hosting package actually contributed to the decision to eventually move all my domain names and sites to another server.

Kwaheri, 1&1…
I don’t know about 1&1 in the US, but …

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