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 today I was very tired (I only had 3 hours of sleep last night). But I am very excited about it, and the conversation with the trainer was very interesting. Maybe I’ll have a second meeting to discuss nutrition – I definitly need a lesson concerning my way of eating… it’s bad as bad can be.

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 comment mentioned above manage to provide no eMail-address and still send the comment?

Strange…

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 helped me out a lot.

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 use the “Folderpane Tools” which can be found at
www.chuonthis.com/extensions/folderpane.php

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).

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 (which is Thunderbird) denies the URL because it “is no valid RSS-feed”.

I have written a letter to the webmasters. Maybe they can tell me what went wrong.

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

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.

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 1,35⁹ €?

OK, one may say that it’s this psychological price threshold marketing whatever thing where one thinks that 1,99 € is much less than 2,00 €. But why with – I repeat – three post decimal positions and only for gasoline?

This has never made sense to me…

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 film starring Nicolas Cage, see the international website for details.