Author Archives: Oliver

Windows Vista SP1 (x64)

… so this weekend I took the time to reinstall my Vista (wanted to do that anyway after I hadn’t maintained my series of backups to revert to for that machine and I am switching from 32bit to 64bit ;)). … Continue reading

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You must be kidding, George? Right?

So Fidel Castro, someone who is both, a living legend to some and a dictator to others, has resigned. Fine. Whatever people think about his person, listening to George W. Bush’s comment on Castro’s resignation gives the whole situation a … Continue reading

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Wissenschaft: Professor der Idiotologie

… wäre mal was neues und definitiv realistischer als die seit Jahrhunderten daherschwafelnden Professoren der Theologie. Zumal sich eine solche Professur auch gleich zuallererst wissenschaftlich mit der immernoch existierenden “Wissenschaft” Theologie auseinandersetzen könnte. Fiel mir nur so ein zum Thema, … Continue reading

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Freibier

Wunderbares und “total lustiges” Video. Weder die Akteure noch die Regisseure haben sich mit Ruhm bekleckert. Interessante Statistiken sind auch dabei. Und gerade die interessieren mich ja am meisten, da sie soviel Aussagekraft zum für die Musikindustrie (MI) entstandenen Schaden … Continue reading

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Argh …

… didn’t feel much of a seamless upgrade this time with the blog software. Well, it needs some fixing here and there, I guess. Especially the CSS is freaking me out. // Oliver

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Wo steht das Thermometer?

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What the heck is wrong with people?

Muslims ask for illustrations of Muhammad to be taken down from Wikipedia. Quote from the petition text follows: In Islam picture of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and other Humans are not allowed. But Wikipedia editors are showing illustrations with face illustrated … Continue reading

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Situation room (CNN) covered by The Daily Show

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Buchempfehlung “Nachrichten aus einem unbekannten Universum”

Für die deutschen Leser meines Blogs dachte ich, daß es vielleicht mal interessant wäre ein Buch zu empfehlen. Erstmal vorausgeschickt, ich bin ein totaler Buchnarr. Ich habe viele Bücher und davon auch einige die 100 Jahre oder älter sind – … Continue reading

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Can people change?

Lately there has been a huge discussion in Germany about privacy issues connected with those social network websites of the web 2.0. In Germany there is one called StudiVZ which is more or less modeled after FaceBook, as I am … Continue reading

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Iceland back into the war!

Enjoy. Jason Jones of “The Daily Show” attempts to bring Iceland back into the coalition of the willing and Icelands troop back into the war in Iraq … HILARIOUS! Jason Jones’ mission is to get Iceland back to the Coalition … Continue reading

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Interesting comments on the US presidency election

Follow this link! I don’t share all thoughts, but some are certainly interesting and seem to have a foundation. And since this is in English, I thought why not share it with the readers of my blog 😉 // Oliver

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Bitte um Rückmeldung aus Deutschland!

Wurdet ihr von den Russen überrannt? US-Präsidentschaftskandidat nennt jedenfalls den deutschen (Bundes-)Präsidenten “Putin”. Glaubt ihr nicht? Hier (englisch!): http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/08012403.html

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Interesting MSDN Magazine article

Folow link!

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“Sektenexperten” bezeichnen Cruise als Goebbels

Laut GMX haben “Sektenexperten” – gemeint der Sektenbeauftragte der evangelischen Kirche in Brandenburg, Thomas Gandow, und der (selbsternannte) Historiker Guido Knopp – Tom Cruise mit Joseph Goebbels, seines Zeichens Propagandaminister der Nazis in den tausend Jahren zwischen 1933 bis 1945 … Continue reading

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DDKBUILD 7.0 final released

I am pleased to announce the release of DDKBUILD.CMD 7.0 final. User input has helped a lot to define the feature set and refine the features once introduced. It has been almost two years since the first public beta, so … Continue reading

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From Corrine: “Lavasoft Turning to the Dark Side?” (update)

Corrine posted this today and points to this. For obvious reasons I cannot and will not comment on it. Update #1: Out of curiosity I searched for more related info. Guess what, something came up. As an exercise for my … Continue reading

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AQTime 5.4 introduces support for VS2008

On 2008-01-11 AutomatedQA sent out the notification about AQTime 5.4 being available. Today I had the chance to test my private license on my own machine and it appears that it integrates just as nicely into Visual Studio 2008 as … Continue reading

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Catholic church being ridiculous again

A colleague sent me this link today, after a short discussion during lunch. It shows again how ridiculous the self-proclaimed universal church is. Never mind the criticism of Harry Potter or having it called “satanism” or so. I just don’t … Continue reading

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Wie passend: katholische Streitkultur

Der Herr Lehmann, seines Zeichens Vorsitzender der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz hat sich – so DW-World TV – auch mal getraut mit dem Papst zu diskutieren. Ich sage: das ist Ketzerei. Schließlich hat der Papst dogmatisch immer recht! Diskutieren ist also nichts … Continue reading

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