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My Inbox is almost empty, and I've ticked off all tasks on my todo-list that I wanted done by year's end. The many remaining tasks will have to wait until next year.
Apart from some humming here and there, my office is quiet (it always is, at home), and I've nothing much left in [...]
We had the window cleaner in the other day, a nice chappie who cleans all the windows in the house for a fixed amount. We get him in once or twice a year.
He did his bit, and after settling with him, I showed him to the door. On the way out he says: You've written [...]
Threehundred and fiftysix (356) CD-ROMs (my young assistant counted them) and untold floppy disks went to the appropriate rubbish bins today.
Floppy disks are to be disposed off together with the regular rubbish, but CD-ROMs are taken care of separately here in Germany, in what is called the "CD Tonne" (the CD bin). It has a [...]
An der Rechtschreibung muessen wir (na ja, die Gattin — ich kann es kaum besser) noch arbeiten, aber den Ein samel dinst den meine Tochter zuhause eingerichtet hat, brachte mich zum schmunzeln.
Care to hazard a guess as to what this sequence of numbers represents?
27.55, 33.45, 39.95, 47.95, 58.95
I'm in the process of revamping and consolidating the way I handle, store and process e-mail. Having neglected to get things done properly for quite a while now, this became an urgent task.
The MX for mens.de is hosted by my provider. From there, I pick every
thing up with getmail, sorting messages into folders automatically, etc. [...]