..that you’re dealing with someone who’s been to Africa:

Prahlad, the Nepalese intern, confirms that these (Made in China) umbrellas are also sold in Kathmandu, Nepal – but!, Ahabwe – the intern from Uganda who’s come to join us for the next two months – brought this typical low-budget umbrella (I’ve so far only seen abroad, [...]

My colleagues at work are using Fujitsu Siemens (FSC) Lifebook S Series laptops, which are more or less thin 13″ computers with the usual flexibility and relatively low weight (1,7kg). Some strange policy by the government requires them to buy FSC machines as well as T-Mobile contracts for their mobiles — whereas I, as a [...]

“rote Äpfel” vs. “Apfel rot” (= “red apples” vs. “apple red”)
One of those moments.

Nachdem mir gestern der Inhalt einer 30 GB Partition auf einer älteren, externen Festplatte – einfach mal eben so – ins Datennirwana aberauscht ist, kann ich jetzt für WinXP ein gutes Datenrettungsprogramm empfehlen, das wirklich hilft:? GetDataBack von Runtime Software, dass es jeweils in einer FAT und NTFS Version gibt.
Auf der 60 GB Festplatte [...]

Due to a more or less funny reason, we ended up being bila a working internet connection this morning – 1&1 killed the line within minutes after realizing that a bill of about 50,- EUR (for the 16k DSL line here) hadn’t been paid for by the landlord.
As money transfers usually take some time, I [...]

Following my first prototype for an improved X17 organiser and a stolen parcel that was later on found soaked in the shrubbery next door…

…I eventually managed to modify the ordered Texon-based X17 timer according to my needs.

As you may remember from my first post on this, X17 is a small company based in Saarbrücken, close [...]

Where would we be without such reports, eh?

…or why I would sometimes like to place my colleagues at work in front of a few selected videos that will help them understand why we urgently need to rethink our knowledge management strategy (or even better: develope a strategy!):

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Do you have any idea how hard it is to explain the future of the web [...]