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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 way so that your kid sibling understands it

4. using a computer and the internet, with as bonus basic programming

5. understanding and speaking English, Spanish and at least basic Chinese or Japanese

6. understanding why reading matters and doing it

7. chess, checkers, or go

8. a nice curling shot, a cross-over dribble, or a decent fastball (soccer, basketball, or baseball, for the ignorant)

9. painting, writing, acting, performing, playing music, or doing photography

10. the “or” in (8) and (9) is an inclusive or, so, yes, formal logic is also a must-know

11. the concept of “sharing”

12. understanding that there are other cultures, other religions, other people and to respect them

13. (11) and (12) actually apply to adults more than to kids, so I’ll add: preserve the innocence of youth

14. basic etiquette

15. cooking AND washing up

16. sewing

17. cycling and fixing bikes

18. honesty

19. being able to play 5 different computer games (preferably 3D) to shape problem solving and spacial navigation

20. reading a map

21. milking a cow

22. growing a plant

23. keeping a pet

24. building a bookcase or desk

25. safe sex

26. how to administer first aid, including mouth-on-mouth and CPR

And this is what could happen to you, too…very black ! 😉

A must see, and ….ehm: bon appetit….;-)

Today we finally lift the curtain to the GLOGGA Blog and GLOGGA Wiki,
a new blog and wiki centered around the wired golfers. We blog, we love
technology and yes we golf. Now let’s talk about it and get some people
in and talking. Oli´s introduction is here.

If anyone is interested: I´ve got two Fanta 4 tickets for their concert in Oberhausen this evening. Unfortunately we can´t go there because of a bad cold. If you are interested just get me on AIM ibornholz or drop me an email ingmar.bornholz@gmail.com . Thx….

The year is going to its end, and I have to check all the figures of my company for the past year: for myself, the fiscal and the bank. And well, I hate this work – I´m not the guy for the numbers. So I´m thinking about syncing and standardisation: in germany (and I guess in the rest of the world, too) all invoices etc. have special fields by law: netto, brutto, vat, date, name…so why the hell does every company make its own invoices on paper? This would be a perfect piece for standardisation and automation: we need a kind of „financial-online-center (FOC)“ with a unique id for every person/company. Everyone who normally sends you an incoice by paper, could fill in the right fields in your FOC, and you get a whole list of all of your invoices. You then can „check them out“ so that they are paid. You can sort and organize them, get deeper into them at the end of the year, send them to the fiscals. No Paper, no missing documents, no mistakes. Hey, Deutsche Bank, Citibank, …, why can´t you make our life a little bit easier 😉

…they are everywhere…;-)

When I found this site, my eyes became wet: c64.com offers all (and I really mean *all*) C64 games I have ever played – and I played lots of them. You can download every single one of them there *for free*. Remember „vermeer“, or may favourite game „kennedy approach“? So, the first thing I did was to find a suitable emulator. And there is one very good for mac osx, it´s called „frodo“. It is very good and stable, though it had problems to realize my keyboard as a „joystick“. But I wanted the full experience: Since I´ve a modchipped Xbox (xecuter 2) with a build in 60gb HD and running linux-ftp server, I got FrodoX – a Frodo port to the Xbox – and it really kicks ass…It recognizes the gamepads as joystick devices, and if you ever need keyboard support for any game , you can choose letters from a quicklist. I´m back in the good ol´days! But know what: Somehow I had in my mind, that the graphics of the games were much better – it´s a case of childish phantasie…;-)

Well, how cool is this:

:I´m watching movie trailers – STREAMING… This is the new Motorola E 1000 UMTS – and it really rocks! I don´t like the skin of the Operating System – it´s a little bit too stylie, and therefore not very comfortable to use. But the Quality of the screen is: WOW! You can choose to watch your movies *fullscreen* – just turn the device 90 degrees. The speed of UMTS is really outstanding – though respond rates are very low (every site-change takes a lot of time – when you are on a site navigation and loading of the movies and pictures etc. is *very* fast) The protal of Vodafone is still at the beginning – and prices are exorbitant – do you want to watch a 0.50 min stream of a Bundesliga-match? It´s 0,49 EUR (about 300k)! But time will bring lower rates, I´m sure. All in all, this mobile device is really cool (even video-phoning is possible – just switch between the two installed cameras 😉 ) I´m really looking forward to the times UMTS will be cheaper…

mmhh…the famous german news portal spiegel.de seems to be offline…wow, I´ve never expected such thing to happen there…(Mo, 041511, 17:40 CET)