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Siege of Bangkok airports

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:14:09 +0100

We had just left Bangkok with Thai Airways heading to Surrat Thani, when Bangkok's international airport has been taken off operation by some protesters. Since there was more than one week ahead before we needed to return there, Marie and me initially had no big concerns due to these events.
In safe distance, in southern Thailand, we followed progress on TV and the Internet. But, when after a whole week, there was no end in sight, we started to think about alternate ways to get back home again.

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Thailand

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:25:09 +0100

... we're coming! :-)

Save my ibook

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:57:23 +0200

I've installed ubuntu on my old ibook yesterday. It's been quite simple, I must say, I like the live-system / install thing they've got.

So, installation went on and, even if slow, eventually completed. This morning, I opened the ibook and tried to boot. Did not work.

I waited several hours and tried to boot. Did not work, either. Ever since I've got that ibook, it has this one single defect: sometimes, maybe once every first or second month, the harddisk does not start up. I know that I should have reported this back to Apple right after I noticed it the first time, within the guaranty - but that's long ago.

Jan told me, he'd have a spare laptop harddisk wondering whether it'd fit into a mac. I guessed that it did, so we decided to risk the operation (in the true sense of the word) and started googling around on how to replace a disk in an ibook.

Right the first result in google did match our needs - a recipe with explanation and pictures:) Opening an ibook basically means finding every screw and searching a suitable screwdriver for it. At the end of the opening progress, we'd have around twenty screws screwed out of the ibook - each of one group of at least four sizes and forms. Our reference website did mention this and proposed to draw pictures with where which screw came from - a hint, we deliberately had disregarded:)

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Due to public request: Moving

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 13:50:31 +0100

... I'm writing a new blog entry.

So - what am I doing these days? Moving.

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Media and Javascript

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:22:37 +0100

While being on a trip to Munich last weekend, walking around downtown Timm, Ruben and me passed a cafe with a pretty modern wall screen probably for news. At that time, it was broken:

The new Adobe Acrobat Reader

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Fri, 20 May 2005 00:32:27 +0200

Adobe has recently released a new major version of the well-known acroread aka Acrobat Reader. These were the things I missed in the old version:

Scolling the document using the scroll wheel.

Faster startup

Some other parts could have been improved, but I don't really care - like the antique window styles (I think, they used to be Motif-style).

What did we get?

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Why two?

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:55:34 +0100

This week's TV headlines all cover the tsunami catastrophe in Asia. Our german news channels are sending reports from there 24/7 since Dec 26th.

While most of the material already had been aired (at least I can say, most of the reports I've seen already somewhere), there's little new. Now there's one thing I wonder...

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Offline Blog #3: Travelling

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:32:37 +0200

I'm just sitting in ICE 504 from Cologne to Karlsruhe, travelling at approx. 300 km/h between Bonn and Frankfurt.

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Offline Blog #1: Offline

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:24:05 +0200

Since 11 days now, I've been offline at home. I had cancelled my contract with Arcor, a german ISP and telephony provider.

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Karlsruhe in the net

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:28:34 +0200

Karlsruhe, the city where I live, has it's main internet presence at http://karlsruhe.de.

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American german prudes

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:53:54 +0200

While having breakfast I was reading an article about Janet Jacksons "nipplegate affair" in Sterling Hughes' Weblog.

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Trouble with htfuzzy (htdig)

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:14:14 +0200

I'm currently having trouble with the command htfuzzy soundex -v $CONFIGFILE. It segfaults; I've send a mail to the Htdig-mailinglist seeking for help.

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