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Oloid-shaped gold bar. A limited edition 1.000 kg solid gold bar from German designer Martin Saemmer.
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Volker recently asked native English speakers what the first thing is that comes to their mind when they hear the words "public viewing". He got quite a few answers. Most of those were along the lines of "funeral". I consider myself a native speaker and replied along similar lines (if a bit more brutal).
I checked [...]
I'm back from LinuxTag 2010 in Berlin. Four days. Seven or eight parallel tracks. Hundreds of talks, of which I heard at most 14 per day. Dozens of booths on the floors run by e.g. Linux distributors and other groups. LinuxTag tickets are inexpensive. Catering is lacking: there was one severely overworked little pizza stand [...]
When sudden silence descended on Casa Mens this morning I thought we'd blown a fuse, so I went down to the cellar. (This was easier said than done without lighting, and no torch to be found in the usual places.) No blown fuse.
A call from my mobile to the neighbors' land line didn't work because [...]
It comes unexpected to see MSFT as the authority for this information.
I know that phishing – using clever fakes to trick the unsuspecting into revealing their passwords – is a real problem, with real victims. But I just assumed that phishing was someone else’s problem.
Or so I thought, until I got phished last week.
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