Want to learn chinese?

Well, I recently started an intensive chinese language course (100H) and I´m going to post all our meetings in my brand new chinese blog (sorry it´s in german, ´cause I haven´t got the time to translate to english either).

Tsunami help – a political desaster?

My cousin is an aid-man in the german „Bundeswehr“ – his job is now to serve on the aid-ship „Berlin“ of the Bundeswehr which is on it´s way to Sumatra. But hey, what does the Indonesien government say? We don´t need you here. As my cousin told me via Email, they are doing nothing there…

Power of Blogs

So here we are: maybe you all have heard of the german ringtone company "jamba" and it´s dubios business modell: mostly kids are buying a monthly abo of ringtones which costs about 4,99€. The problem is, that this information (monthly abo) ist nearly not readable on the TV-Screens where "jamba" sets most of it´s advertising.…

iPod Photo already in XP integrated

So you thought your iPod Photo is a brand new Apple product? Forget it…Just go to your XP Folder "my files > my pictures" ("Eigene Dateien > Eigene Bilder") and have a loook in the lower right corner – Bill already new and put a pictrue of your iPod Photo in it 😉

Google images lags again

When you are searching on "google images" for  "tsunami" you´ll find nothing more than pictures of recent tsunamis, illustrations, warning signs, etc. Why aren´there actual photos of the katastrophy, or better: all the missed people? Is it because of the long time google needs to re-index the web? I Think google could really help by…

Thank you 37signals.com

Thank you for getting an outside in view on the internet: the guys from 37signals.com  (which are running basecamphq.com too, a genius projectserver which I´m running for almost a year now in our company) will launch their next project soon: 43things.com is "goal orientated " website, which means it is a mixture from social networking…

Kids should learn these

yes, I totally agree with Adriaan´s list. Kids today need to know more than chemistry formulas etc. Any additional suggestions? 1. ten-finger typing without staring at the keyboard, that’s indeed one to know 2. speaking in front of a group and deal with questions appropriately 3. expressing thoughts on paper in a concise and clear…

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