A few years ago the big word everybody used was “multimedia” (it even was the “Word of the Year” in Germany in 1995), then “2000 / Y2K” came around the corner and made it big. Nowadays, in the times of Web 2.0, version control has become the big obsession and might be about to take […]
As already mentioned in the post “SwissBall”, Germany is covered with World Cup related events and products. Especially the sponsors take huge pride in making it known that we cannot escape the World Cup when it takes over the reign in Germany for the next weeks. A couple of weeks ago I spotted a pretty […]
With the Soccer World Cup 2006 being away only a few days, every city in Germany – not just the ones where the games are played – is getting ready fort the big event. There is hardly any store, restaurant or other gathering place where you do not see either a soccer ball or a […]
It’s been some years that cigarette companies are not allowed to place ads so freely anymore as they used to do. I am not quite sure if they had ever been allowed to advertise in newspapers, but as I never see any ads for cigarettes, I think they are prohibited to do so. Now there […]