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My friends Agnes and Magnus had a babygirl two days ago. They announced their happy news to the circle of friends by sending a e-mail with a url to the hospital's homepage where a photo of all the newborns are put (if the parents agree).
So, anyone want to see Angelica? Of course you want!
Due to insufficient diskspace, I had to remove almost all older pictures from my photolog and all the blogentries from previous years. I have only 25 MB and somehow, I have managed to fill that up. I'll have to find a solution to this problem because I really like my online photo album and my archived blogentries...
Why doesn't Internet Explorer sort my bookmarks for me, so that the ones I frequently visits come on top and the ones I randomly or never visit, disappear somewhere where they don't bother me?
I keep trying to organize them smart but after a couple of weeks it looks all messy again. So why do I even have to bother with this? I mean, my Explorer should know by now, where I ususally hang out and what useless things I bookmark but never, ever returns to. It should tell me "hey steffanie, don't bother because I know you'll never go back"
I know it doesn't take a lot of time to rearrange the bookmarks, but why should I? A computer is a whole lot better than me in keeping track of what I do online and should be able to do a much better job. Maby there already is a software that can do this? In that case, I want it!
Found a really interesting article in Der Standard today: Erinnerung an die Zukunft which discussed the issue about digital archiving. How are we supposed to store all digital information that is being created every hour on the Internet? The American Internet Archive saves 400 megabyte every day! That's 20 kilometres of shelf space!
The question about format is also interesting when it comes to digital information. You need machines and software to access the material and what happens in 200 years from now? Will software and machine be able to handle old files like that?
I also started thinking about my own homepage when I read that the average homepage exists only 50 days. steffanie dot net has existed since March 1998 but I actually have very few backups of my own material. Some are to be found here.
Didn't you always dreamt you were German instead of... whatever your nationality might be? Take the test and find out what your potentials are to go native. Remember, it's never too late, Germany is waiting for you!
I was ROTFL as I answered the language question correctly and got back "Admit it! You were born in Germany wern't you?" just because I happend to know what "das ist mir wurscht" meant. I mean, how can you live in Austria for 10 months and not understand that since native Austrians uses the wurscht-word like ten times a day :-)
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It looks as if I beat Magnus Müller and got the desirable muller.se-domain!
First I thought I lost. Although my name was listed before my competitor's, there was a 1 before his name and a 2 before my name and call me stupid but somehow I thought that meant he was first in line and I second.
Apparently not. The first name on the list is the winner, independent from what figure might be attached to it. Or at least I think so, I haven't yet gotten a confirmation and I'm not celebrating until I know for sure.
Just wanted to share the (hopefully) good news :-)
Today at one o'clock it will be decided who gets it. Gets what? The desirable domain muller.se of course!
After years of rigid rules allowing only corporations and countrywide organisations to register a domain directly under .se, leaving everyone else with a ugly province letter, the Swedish administrators finally decided to loosen up the rules a bit. It used to be like this, if I wanted to register my family name Müller I would have to choose where to register it, for example in Stockholm and then it would have been muller.a.se. In Gothenburg: muller.o.se.
These rules are finally history and now everyone can register what they want. And of course I want muller.se! The problem is another person wants it too and today at one o'clock there will be a lottery deciding who gets all the desirable domains with two or more interested buyers. Everything will be aired at nic.se's homepage so go have a look and keep your fingers crossed for me!
I too, have wondered about the German toilets. Why do they look like that? Reading Scott's posting about it, I had to laugh out loud because it's hiliarious! (via Simon).
Didn't a Swedish stand-up comedy guy make joke about this a couple of years ago? Suggesting that the Germans, after having done number 2, turns around and if they're satisfied with the result, happily sighs das habe ich gemacht!" :-)
All you Germans out there (and Austrians too becuase your toilets looks pretty much the same), enlighten us!
Sweden climbed from 11th to 7th place at Blizg in just a couple of days! Yours truely, xipe's blog and Ben Hammersley have been joined by FrippeVille, Tankeboken, Bikupan and fad absurdum. But where are the rest? How to learn Swedish in 1000 difficult lessons and Det perfekta tomrummet have registered but not joined the happy Sweden bunch. If they would, Sweden would pass Belgium which boasts with 8 registered webblogs.
The war on Iraq? No, I try to concentrate on the small things of life right now. The things I feel I have the power to control, like what shoes to wear or if I'm taking the bus at 12.12 or 12.28 when I'm going to my one o'clock lecture at the university.
Todays lecture is about BoforsaffŠren, a very well known Swedish scandal which happend during the eigthties. Bofors used to be a Swedish-owned weapon manufacturer, nowdays controlled by the american United Defense. Bofors managed to export weapons to Iran during the Iran-Iraq war, which is against Swedish law, which says Swedens cannot export weapons to countries involved in a conflict or war. The whole thing was going very well. Bofors exported gunpowder to a company in Austria. Austria is not invovled in any conflict or war, no problems. The Austrian company which actually only consisted of one person sold the gunpowed to Finland, neither that a country in war. This was handled very quickly, the railway waggon entered Austria, was relabelled and send back over the German-Austrian border destination Finland.
But the waggons never reached Finland. They were all "lost" somewhere in the former East Germany.
This was going well for quite some time until two over-zeolus German customs officers noticed that the waggons they declared the same morning, came back on the afternoon but with a new destination. They got suspicious and sended an official letter to the Swedish Customs asking what was going on and this is how the whole thing got revealed.
Bofors was prosecuted twice but never convicted and our teacher wrote a book about the whole thing called Die Akte Bofors (yes, the title is in German) and that's what todays lecture is gonna be all about.
