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Yearly Archives: 2002
The Thing from Another World (1951)
Before I start let me state that I have only watched the German version of the movie. Likely, the US original differs somewhat, but except for the occasional translation error I had the impression the German version can’t be too … Continue reading
Halloween 2002
My favorite holiday is coming up: Halloween. My neighbor across the street had a jack-o-lantern outside her window for a few days, but they took it back inside. Probably afraid it’d fall down. Okay, understandable, but too bad. I loved … Continue reading
Quatermass And The Pit
613It’s October – Halloween time! That’s why I decided to review some of the scary movies I own. First in this series: Quatermass and the Pit, written by Nigel Kneale and filmed by the BBC in 1957. Chances are you … Continue reading
Roadmap for this Website
It’s the middle of the night, and I cannot seem to find sleep. It’s not like I am not tired, mentally, but sleepy? For some inexplicable reason, the answer is “no”. I have absolutely no clue, but experience shows that … Continue reading
Old Email Address
I just learned that one of my oldest remaining mail addresses – *nils@work.de* – has been switched off a while ago. If you are trying to reach me that way, you will be out of luck. Use my current address … Continue reading
How Ignorant Do People Have To Be…
…to fall for this? You all know these advertisement banners that look – more or less – like Windows error dialogs. Yes, faking a dialog of an OS is really so difficult that you cannot expect these people to get … Continue reading
Posted in Villains & Thieves, Websites, What a Geek!
Tagged Advertising, Scams, Spam, Stupidity, Web
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Futurama Season 1 DVD
For a long time I have put off purchasing Futurama Season 1 on DVD, simply because it’s quite expensive (30-40 Euros). Yesterday, I fially borrowed it from a co-worker, and watched two of the three DVDs the same evening. Enough … Continue reading
It's a Boy!
My website has a second “child”. [Martin Lormes](http://www.martinlormes.de) has started his own [weblog](http://www.martinlormes.de/) and I can claim enough influence in this decision to call his ‘blog a [child of my weblog](http://www.blogtree.com/blogtree.php?blogid=543). Congrats and good luck Martin, I think you will … Continue reading
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War Brewing
The US airbase here in Frankfurt is full of Galaxy transport planes. Combined with the news a few weeks ago that the US Navy was renting commercial container ships, I fear that the war against Iraq has already been decided … Continue reading
Election Day
Today was Federal election here in Germany. I had misplaced my registration card, but after some searching I turned it up – it had fallen between the desk and the bookshelf. No matter. I went around noon, earlier than usually. … Continue reading
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