Jedes Handy hat eine eigene, einmalige Seriennummer. Diese kann häufig mit *#06# aufgerufen werden. Diese Nummer notieren und aufbewahren. Wenn nun ein Handy gestohlen wird, muss man diese Seriennummer dem Telefonhändler oder Hersteller zum Blockieren melden. Die Blockade funktionniert auch wenn der Dieb eine neue SIM-Karte einsetzt.
Man bekommt davon zwar sein Handy nicht zuruck, aber man hat wenigstens die Genugtuung, dass der Dieb auch nichts mehr damit anfangen kann …
I watched the Lotusphere 2006 keynote stream last night and found most of it to be quite boring if only because neither my customer nor myself really believe in the real-time collaboration stuff.
One thing that caught my attention however, was the upcoming integration of Notes 7 into Google Desktop Search. I've yet to use Google Desktop because of the fact that it doesn't find Notes documents. That is one feature that I'm looking forward to.
It took a while, but it has happened: this site currently leads on the results when searching Google for my name.
Just a little ego boost.
When I started being a freelancer about fifteen years ago, I opened a business account at the Norisbank in Mainz, because they offerred the exact type of service that I was looking for at very reasonable rates. I've so-far been pleased with their service.
Today I got a lengthy call from the bank manager telling me that the Norisbank is no longer interested in commercial clients as they are switching their focus towards private customers, and would I please terminate my account by the end of March next! I strongly expressed my astonishment at the fact that any enterprise today would try to get rid of a client and outright asked if the Norisbank was going the same way as the fuckup the Deutsche Bank did with their -24 bit. His answers where a bit watery…
Two things piss me off: I now have to quickly find an alternative, and the Norisbank has the best online service I've yet come accross (I've used Deutsche Bank, American Express, Commerzbank and I've seen Postbank and Sparkasse), which means that I'm probably going to be very displeased with the next lot.
Last night I zapped into Arte and saw a good part of the documentary Job: Foodhunter. A film about a man named Mark Brownstein who travels through remote regions of Asia looking for interesting food, condiments and
aromas which he then tries to make available to star chefs around the world.
I strongly recommend seeing the beautiful images of the documentary. It will be shown again on Arte on January 22nd at 01:20 and there is a picture story about him on Stern (in German).
Foodhunter: what a job!
During the course of the next seven days, four hundred users in eleven countries will get the Mozilla Thunderbird MUA installed on their respective workstations, desktops, notebooks or whatever. That will simply be a silent installation of Thunderbird, no questions asked. It wouldn't really be worth mentioning if it weren't for the fact that some of those countries have absolutely lousy Internet connectivity. Anyone remember the days of 2400bd modems? Well: think "worse".
The actual configuration of all necessary user-settings in Thunderbird as well as creation of a profile for it will take place a bit later on. This will be equally easy, as I've created a customized installer which takes care of all that. It has already been well tested by twenty five people, and it will be put to good use on the night of the 18th through the 19th of February. That date is code-named big bang 
Now it is time for me to put my feet up for a bit.
