The following blog post will be in German, as it is about an event that took place in Frankfurt this Wednesday evening. Following the Twitter back channel conversations during last week’s Ignite Frankfurt event (where attendees criticized the use of English instead of German), I realized that in order to reach those who are targeted, [...]

What’s this?

I never thought this would actually work. But it does.
We currently share a room in this row/town house, right under the roof. The DSL modem that connects this house to the internet is in the basement, and I have in the past used this Edimax router as a repeater for the wireless signal (not WDS-mode!) [...]

Lindt easter bunnies made of chocolate and already on sale although it’s still some weeks till Easter.
They btw started selling Xmas cookies as early as September last year.
Scary.

Leek Flower Paste. I still haven’t figured how to use this on food (@KPT – weißt Du es?) but it was really cheap so I HAD to buy [...]

Today is Twestival day and I am also attending the local gathering of Twitter users – which also happens to take place in my favourite pub here in Frankfurt (aptly named “the place to be“).
Twestival is a world-wide, almost simultaneous event (live streaming) and attendees are encouraged to donate some money to Charity Water, an [...]

Bought this mouse for the netbook today – an A4tech X6-60MD in black – which has this retractable USB cord and comes with a somehow smarter “GLASER” diode/sensor which is said to also work on a glass table (most optical mice don’t).

X6-60MD mouse compared to the wireless desktop mouse
Attaching the mouse to the netbook actually [...]

entdeckt @ Post, Postbankfiliale Goetheplatz, Frankfurt am Main.
Streetart ist auch eine sehr charmante Form der Kunst. :-)
(to my English readers: that’s a “public property” streetart sticker on the entrance door to a Deutsche Post branch – right in the middle of Frankfurt downtown, the capital of money in Germany, in direct neighbourhood to all major [...]

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 [...]