I have always wondered how the media can produce well-researched, well-written, and well-presented information basically minutes after the death of a famous person. Now I know: The information is prepared beforehand, maybe sometimes even years in advance, and constantly updated.
Unfortunate for the not-yet-deceased if such an obituary is accidentally published as in the case of [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2008’
Nothing goes unnoticed
My virtual past
A number of friends always ask for pictures in which I am as we don’t see each other a whole lot. If you know me, you know that I am a behind-the-camera person and that there are hardly any pictures of me on the memory cards in my cameras.
However, I can come up with fake [...]
The day between today and yesterday
Does my Swurl live according to a different calendar? Apparently, the day after Friday, August 22, 2008, is Sunday, August 24, 2008, though everywhere else it is August 23, 2008. I moved my delicious bookmarks to my new account and thus had to change the settings in my aggregators. That’s when I stumbled upon the [...]
Poker and ringtones
After my WordPress update half an hour ago to version 2.6.1, I checked the spam comments page to see how many spam attempts I had. Akismet caught 330 and had 132 in the queue (forgot to check the timeframe). Had I clicked on the originating links, I would be a pro in poker and other [...]
Offline vacation
y vacation this year is already a few weeks ago, but only thanks to today’s holiday I can reminisce a little bit. This was my first true summer vacation in a very long time. I was on vacation near Toulouse, France, from July 15 to July 28. In the past years while working in Munich, [...]
