Adding daily content to the blog
This blog has been meant to keep friends and aquaintances or other persons interested in me updated about my life. What has been quite freqently filled with content in the first years has changed to…
24 Stunden in Hamburg – Sehenswürdigkeiten, Programm
Aus latent chronischem Anlass, hier eine kleine Liste von Dingen, die man in Hamburg machen kann, wenn man 24 Stunden oder ein Vielfaches davon hat. Sicherlich für die Meisten von Euch nicht besonders relevant, aber…
Places to live in Hamburg
As most of you know I’ve been living in Hamburg for over 6 years now. And, though I moved here partly forced by a job, I fell in love with this city and don’t consider…
UMTS + US – or: problems finding a right prepaid data plan when traveling to the US
As you might know, I have switched from using a global data plan for my mobile phone to buying local prepaid cards to use in my smartphones. This is also the reason why I don’t…
Oh, that's cheap. Or: how to increase ARPU as a mobile provider
This topic might feel a bit „off topic“, as it is not very personal to me, but it resulted from a posting I made at gutefrage.net, a Q&A platform where you can answer random questions,…
What Apple to pick – or: reduce weight while traveling
No, this blog post is not about a diet based on apples, it’s rather about which financial diet to take after buying an Apple; the technical product that is. As most of you are well…
Tempting Christmas time
Almost two years ago, I decided to not display any advertisements on the Küchenserver (see https://www.kuechenserver.org/tag/werbefrei/#/archiv/2009/01/16/werbefrei/ for the German post about this). However everytime I’ll have a look at my stats around Christmas, I get…
Qype: pentahotel Trier Europahalle in Trier
Trier – Hotels & Unterkuenfte – Hotels – Hotels & Unterkuenfte – Hotels – 4-Sterne-Hotels Nachdem ich ausnahmsweise mal wieder innerdeutsch geschäftlich unterwegs bin (es hätte eigentlich Luxemburg werden sollen), galt es, ein nettes Hotel…
Felt like Facebook
Facebook has become a significant part in my online life, one that I spend by far more time on than here on my own website. So it felt logical to change the look and feel…
Misc. recommondations from today's flight
I had an interesting conversation today in which I shared some of my geek wisdom. Most of you will already know the following tools. If not, pick whatever is useful for you. No particular order.…
Vodka collection
I have started – strangely enough – to collect Wodka. A colleague of mine collects Gin, however my collection is nowhere near as exciting, complete or passionately assembled as his. However, if you want to…
Taxes HowTo – Christian style
It’s about time: our local „Finanzamt“ which is the town’s legal entity to collect your income taxes in Germany, in my case Hamburg-Hansa (which will hopefully not change due to the move), has again reminded…