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 available in different languages, obtaining a valid ticket is really complicated for those who do not [...]

“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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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?

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 a monetary incentive programme (~ citizen reporters get paid in terms of airtime or via M-Pesa [...]

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 here in Germany where they started many years ago (I had become their customer in 1999 [...]

It’s almost one year ago that I published three (1, 2, 3) articles on mobile blogging – and nothing has really changed since then.
Back in 2007, both the Nokia N95 and the Apple iPhone were released – two completely different phones that were only compared on numerous blogs due to setting new standards on each [...]

What you see here is the first page of a brand new textbook for 12-year-old German kids who want to learn Spanish (as a foreign language).
It starts with a listening comprehension unit and provides relatively short exercises throughout the whole textbook. Nothing really new so far, but with the difference that most pages come within [...]

Is this already mainstream cinema?

2 Days in Paris – a wonderful movie on sex, food and relationships.? And this although it beautifully covers the cliché of both the French & American’s inability to communicate in any other language then their own, the cliché of the French(wo)men always talking about sex & food, racist tendencies [...]