Archive for September, 2006

Visits to Japanese restaurants during the course of the last twenty years, never managed to really turn me on; I much preferred Indian, Vietnamese or Chinese preparations.
That is, until Christoph "forced" me (because he paid the bill ) to a Japanese restaurant in Düsseldorf. Not only did I greatly enjoy that evening, but [...]

Sunday, September 24th, 2006 at 15:25 | 0 comments
Categories: Entertainement, Food
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Friday, September 22nd, 2006 at 23:15 | 2 comments
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By the time you read this, the complete migration of this site to a new host has been successful. After having my contract terminated by my previous hoster (it would appear I'm being kicked out quite frequently this year…), I chose to add the fupps.com domain to the account which also hosts mens.de (note to [...]

Friday, September 22nd, 2006 at 21:10 | 0 comments
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I've (temporarily?) disabled the Technorati magic on the sidebar, because I noticed that not my new host is at fault for slow page loading, but rather that Technorati appears to be getting another massage; they appear to be quite unreacheable.

Friday, September 22nd, 2006 at 20:51 | 0 comments
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I've just been informed that this site is moving to a new domain hoster.

… wird seinen Geschafts-betrieb deshalb zum 31.10.06 einstellen. Ihre Vertrage unter der oben genannten Kundennummer kundigen wir daher fristgerecht zum 31.10.06.

That means I have about 40 days to find an alternative hosting platform. Great! As though I had nothing better to do…

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 at 15:44 | 0 comments
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Dear Mr. Jean Williams,
I know nothing of "ertified" bank drafts. Please explain.

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 at 15:03 | 0 comments
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I'm urgently waiting for thawte to issue an SSL web-server certificate, and I'm already starting to regret having used them. I submitted a request last Friday, and all I'm getting in the way of response is a pending. Since it is urgent, I'm hitting refresh on their status site every ten minutes or so, and [...]

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 at 12:46 | 0 comments
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I spend a good part of my time ensuring that whatever services we offer will be up and running 24/7. Be it an Exim cluster, a failsafe BlackBerry Enterprise Server, MySQL on DRBD, multiple DNS servers, LDAP directory servers, you name it: whatever services we offer are very hard to kill.
Then comes some twerp and [...]

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 at 12:11 | 1 comment
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