Had my first work day after my holidays today… my worries were unnecessary, it was a nice day. Well, that’s the way I am: always anticipating the worst, which almost never occurs.
I have just returned from my fitness center (see www.kenpokan.de) where I got a new training program. Well, I haven’t started it yet, since [...]

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I just received a comment on “Pirates Of The Carribean - Dead Man’s Chest” which provided no eMail-address. How is this possible? I tried to leave a comment myself without an eMail-address, it didn’t work… the browser showed “please fill in the required fields” - as it should be.
So, how did the author of the [...]

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Thanks to Tim I found a nice wordpress plugin called FAlbum which helps you including your Flickr photos in your wordpress project:

FAlbum website:
www.randombyte.net/blog/projects/falbum/

Note that it might take some customization. My sidebar was thrown to the bottom when I first installed it. Help can be found here. Although these instructions refer to a special theme, it [...]

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You have been looking for ages for a way to change the order of the accounts shown in the folderpane in Thunderbird? You want the “local folder” (which is called “Privat” in German) to be placed above all other accounts because it is your main account? You want RSS-feeds to be shown at the bottom?
Then [...]

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Finally, my good friend Tim Engelhardt decided to start a comeback with a weblog (in German), after having no homepage at all for months (or let’s say years)!
Check it out and support it at www.engelhardt.be, as it is currently still under construction (in my opinion, it will grow faster as he might think).

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I just happend to find bandnews.org, where you can select up to 100 bands. The service then collects news (via webrobot), and you can subscribe to them via RSS-feed. Registration with user name and eMail is necessary.
nfortunately, this did not work so well… I can only add up to 5 bands, and my RSS-reader [...]

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Check out www.ashesandsnow.org with photographs by Gregory Colbert… it’s an amazing experience!
(Special thanks to my sister for this tip!)

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Here is how you set up Thunderbird for viewing RSS-feeds:

English:
kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_RSS_Basics

German:
www.thunderbird-mail.de/hilfe/dokumentation1.5/konto_rss_feed_einrichten.php

With firefox, you can use the extension Sage.

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Can anyone explain to me why - in Germany - only the gasoline price is shown with three post decimal positions, whereas any other price (like in the supermarket) shows the usual two? And why do they always end on a ‘9′? Does it make any difference at all if I pay 1,36 € or [...]

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Before Pirates Of The Carribean - Dead Man’s Chest they showed two very promising trailers:

Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer
Starts in Germany on September 14th. The book was written by Patrick Süskind. Unfortunately, there is only a German website.
World Trade Center
Release date in Germany is September 28th as the website reads. It’s an Oliver Stone [...]

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