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December 29, 2005
Mono - awsome freeware game
Check out yet another very addictive game: Mono!
You play this game with your mouse and don't need to click.... you spaceship is always firing on big colorful balls that divide, when hit and leave behind powerups. At first you can go after the balls, but later you end up just trying to avoid them to stay alive. Very simple and stupid - that's why it's fun ;)
Get it from the binary zoo - while they are over their bandwidth limit, I have a mirror ;)
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December 28, 2005
Julia's Intl District Food Map
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December 27, 2005
Too Cute
I'm using one of our cute picture from our bunny Opie to link to this site
Cute Overload!
Warning: Do not visit this site if you suffer from diabetes! You get sugar high just from watching the pictures...
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Political Correct Holiday greeting
Being political correct - PC - is everything in the modern United States of Amerika. So here it comes the totally PC Holiday Greeting:
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.
A fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures, and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform, or sexual orientation of the wisher.
Disclaimer:
By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms.
This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher who assumes no responsibility for any unintended emotional stress these greetings may bring to those not caught up in the holiday spirit.
Btw, those people that think they have to say Happy Holiday instead of anything with Christmas are pretty stupid in not realizing that holiday comes from Holy day, which isn't anything less christian ;)
Posted by marco at 11:34 AM | Comments (0)
December 21, 2005
Bad Customer Service - Comcast
I really hate that: You take a lot of time to formulate a good email to any customer service and what do they do? They scan for the first recognizable keyword and send your their standard reply. In my recent conversation with comcast that was Spam: So I got their standard text "you would like to know how to prevent spam".
Incidentally, I had anticipated every single one of their suggestions and NO! that wasn't waht I wanted to know.
I wanted to know how my Comcast email account got swarmed with spam (150 Spam mails, only 7 of witch got caught by their lousy spamfilter) and about 10 of Comcast's own newsletters (which are opt-out, so you could consider those spam, too). Even though I had never given my address FirstnameLastname@comcast.net to anyone.
Here is what they sent me:
- Keep your anti-virus software up to date
- Install a firewall
- Only give your primary e-mail address to friends and family
- Use an additional e-mail address for form submissions on the internet
- Do not post your e-mail address in message boards and newsgroups
- Do not reply to unsolicited e-mails
- Let friends and family know that you do not want your e-mail address shared with anyone
- Do not post the e-mail address you use on personal web pages.
- Avoid 'unsubscribing' to emails received from an unknown email address.
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December 16, 2005
What is this? Picture Quiz
Click the image to see more ;)
These are the inflatable fitness balls in the fitness studio I see, when looking out of my window
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S.P.I.T.
I like that ;) I'll support it:
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December 8, 2005
Walking the Bunny
For Nikolaus Day I got a lovely gift from Christine: A bunny Harness.
So now I can take Opie for a walk ;)
I am pretty sure though that
a) this will not give me more exercise.
b) I like this thing much more then Opie does.
Posted by marco at 4:14 PM | Comments (0)
Dumbeetle.be - how to get here?
At EuroDNS from the 1st November 2005 to 31st January 2006 the .be domains are for free for our European, US & Canadian customers! You can get up to 20 domains. After a year you'll have to pay if you want to keep your domain...
I took advantage of this deal, so you can get to this page following a number of nice links now:
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December 6, 2005
Adventskalender
This is door 1 of my Adventskalender - looks a little strange.
Normally, the chocolate in those calendars is aweful. But this one isn't!
This was:
- Made in Germany.
- Bought in West Seattle.
- Refilled by Tini!
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December 5, 2005
2nd Advent
There is no denying, Christmas is coming. Today I baked Vanillekipferl und Heidesand. Tini had already made the other two kinds (Linzer and Oatmeal). I also tried making some hot Cider with Vanilla, Cinnamon, Cloves and Lemon. We even had a brief apperance of snow!
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