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Das saugt!

Um es mit Daniel zu sagen. Gestern abend hat sich mein Rechner entschieden den Dienst zu quittieren. Er ist quasi beinahe wörtlich “abgeraucht”. Ich stelle später noch das Bild von den hübschen Ablagerungen auf den Widerständen ins Netz. Laut Rolland’s Bruder besteht bei solchen Ablagerungen die Gefahr, dass die Widerstände platzen und der Rechner . . . → Read More: Das saugt!

The Biggest Franchise Ever

And its not the fast food restaurant everybody is thinking of now …. I think it is a big conspiracy to keep everyone in the dark as to who is really trying to reach world domination. Not every city has a Burger King or MacD but most cities that have those have even more Irish Pubs! And many smaller cities that don’t have any fast food restaurants still have an Irish Pub.

Here in Karlsruhe are at least – and I am only counting those I remember currently: Claddagh Ring, Old Dublin, Scruffy’s Irish Pub, Flynn’s Inn, Sean O’Cacey’s, Treacy’s Irish Pub. I am sure there are more (at least one in Durlach and one in Ettlingen). This is Germany not Ireland but the next Guinness or Kilkenny (or Cider!) is never far.
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The Net Scale

Sometimes when I talk to people about tech things I get the feeling that they have stopped following. Then I usually ask: “What background do you have, how much tech slang do you want?” The interesting thing is that most of these people don’t answer my question. They seem rather embarrassed to know less than I do which makes it much harder for me to know what to say. If only there was an easy scale to classify people’s tech-knowledge.
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Thoughts on Comments

Megnut writes on the much abused or disused – depending on blog popularity – commenting feature in her post On comments and weblogs. She advocates a bit more thought and flexibility in the use of the commenting feature. I have thought about it before but usually – hoping for any feedback at all :-) – I left the comments turned on even though sometimes it was clear that whatever comments could be made on an article they would not be of the type I’d appreciate.

So now I played around with the entry database a bit and closed off most postings and I’ll be trying to be more selective hoping that when comments are allowed there will be some :-)
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What I put in a bag

I was inspired by the “Meal in a Bag” recipes in the “Happy Days” cookbook to try the following last night. I made this while preparing the Chili con Carne we’ll have tonight.

The meal in a bag paradigm says this:

make a bag out of two sheets of tin foil by folding in three sides. Mix up the ingredients of your meal in a bowl (anything that takes longer than 20 minutes you’ll have to precook), season to taste, fill in the bag, add in a glas of either wine or some other fitting fluid. Close the bag and cook at around 200°C in the oven for 20 minutes.

It’s very easy and you can even prepare the meal in the morning and eat it later …. read on to see what I put in the bag:
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