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October 28, 2005
Money for Blogs?
My blog is worth $1,693.62.
How much is your blog worth?
Posted by marco at 11:42 PM
October 24, 2005
Isn't it ironic
That's so mean: Only today did I find out that I have an Island named after me in Florida called Marco Island: See cybermarco.com
But happiness lasted only for a little while, because I found out a minute later, my island got flooded!
See News Entry :(
Posted by marco at 1:28 PM | Comments (0)
October 19, 2005
Hurricane Katrina Devastation - How you can help!
I'm sure we are all looking to MSN Hotmail to tell us how we can help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. So, I'm doing my very best here:
Well, after you sent an email from Hotmail's Webinterface, you'll see the following helpful message:
| Hurricane Katrina Devastation-How you can help. | |||||
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Thanks to Thaddaeus for finding that ;)
Posted by marco at 12:49 PM | Comments (0)
October 17, 2005
Google saves lifes
I guess I can't imagine to be on the internet without Google any more. But other people have been even more influenced! Read this entry from the official Google Blog for a story, where Google might have saved a live.
UPDATE: Now there even is a child named Google! As a middle name.... very cute kid. I wonder if the name turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Posted by marco at 2:17 PM | Comments (2)
October 16, 2005
Worst Case Scenario
OK, I should know better, but let me spell it out again: B-A-C-K-U-P, backup, backup, backup!
Yesterday, I plugged my external Harddrive into my computer and no data was to be seen. The partition was still there, but it didn't seem to be formatted.
Not yet panicking, I booted up Linux, but the same picture presented itself. This drive contains all my digital pictures and my music library. Sure I did make a backup, but that was quite a while ago. I'd cry if I lost all that.
I started looking for a data recovery product and found Ontrack EasyRecovery™. This program was able to find all my data after a 4h search. Unfortunately it couldn't just fix the FAT, so I had to make room for all the 100+GB on my other drive. So after another 5h of data transfer, I had my data back and could start formatting my external drive anew. This time I'm using NTFS and hope that this doesn't get as easily corrupted as the FAT32 partition did. The formatting took another 3 hours and copying back the data yet another 3h. So just a couple of corrupted bits in the file allocation table of my drive cost me 15h to restore the data.
What to do to prevent this? Sure, backup is the best answer - but backing up 150GB is not easy. That's 10 DVDs! And one question I have is: Would this have happened with Linux, too?
Posted by marco at 3:27 PM | Comments (1)
Pumpkin Soup Recipe
I just got this recipe from my mom and we already cooked the soup 3 times in 2 weeks! And everybody that tasted it loved it, too ;)
- In a pressure cooker melt a spoon full of butter and fry a finely chopped onion.
- Add 400g diced pumpkin and 200g diced carrots.
- Fill up with a cup of meat stock or vegetable broth, season with 2 tablespoons of curry powder, a bay leave, salt and pepper.
- Cook about 10min in the pressure cooker (much longer in a regular pot).
- Remove the bay leave, now mashing everything with a potatoe masher or use a food processor.
- Add Creme Fraiche or whipped cream.
- Before serving put some roasted almonds on top and a spoon of sour cream.
Posted by marco at 2:57 PM | Comments (0)
October 15, 2005
Guess what this is
I don't think there is any way, you can guess, what this is:
Click this link, if you're done guessing ;)
Posted by marco at 12:09 AM | Comments (2)
October 13, 2005
How to tell the kids
If you ever wondered how to tell your kids of the harsh security measures going on since 9/11, go get some playmobil! They have a security checkpoint for kids to play with! First, read this customer review, though.
Posted by marco at 3:18 PM | Comments (0)
October 7, 2005
Marco's kSolo Forum
Largely because I have so much fun at kSolo.com and because I feel the need to discuss some of it with other people, I created a forum:
Marco's kSolo Forum
I'm curious if anybody will visit that page at all, but I have to try ;)
By the way, I set up this Forum using
phpBB 2
It was very painless and offers all the functionality you expect from a forum :)
Thank you Open-Source developers!
If you really wanna hear me sing, see this older entry....you have been warned ;)
Posted by marco at 2:17 PM | Comments (1)
October 6, 2005
Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo
I really like the Bloodhound Gang.
Not that their music is really my style, but the lyrics are so funny and every time I listen to a song I understand another rascality. So basically I'm in it for the English-challenge ;)
The Bloodhound Gang - Hefty Fine [EXPLICIT LYRICS]
Posted by marco at 11:21 AM | Comments (0)
October 3, 2005
Face the truth!
Posted by marco at 5:04 PM | Comments (0)