Monthly Archives: April 2010

The end of the 3.5″ floppy

I remember the time as a student when I tried to squeeze all my data on a 1 MB 3.5″ floppy, long before USB sticks were sold at reasonable prices. Compared to the 5 1/4″ disk with which I started

Posted in computer

The beef bowl war

Japanese fast-food chains which serve varieties of beef bowls (牛丼, GYUUDON) are recently fighting against each other in order to provide the cheapest dish for the costumer. SUKIYA started off with selling a bowl for 280 Yen and in the

Posted in Food, Japanese

How US laws are made

I am not so naive to think that all US laws are made for the wealth of the country, but today I stumbled over a very informative page which made me thinking. The information on the page relates the denotations

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The power of nature

These are two links which point from Sebastien’s blog to great pictures from the recent vulcanic activities. The first page, has really amazing shots ranging from close distance to the action to more distant locations. The second page, i.e. provided

Posted in travel

Mother nature …

In Europa a cloud of vulcanic ash stops air traffic of all major countries. Here in Japan it seems that winter came back, and since more than 41 years we had a few cm of powder in Tokyo area in

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Do frequent password changes make sense?

Although I am doing it regularly, I am always doubting if it makes really sense to change passwords after a given period of time. It’s not only nasty to remember the new password(s), but it always happens that you type

Posted in computer

Stuck-up insurance company

Since three days I am trying to contact my Austrian (!) private insurance company to discuss some details about my pension. Until now no response from them. I can understand that they might have some spam filter running and that

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Gomorra – the book vs. the film

About one year ago I bought the book “Gomorra” before a long-haul flight and I read it with pleasure. Currently I am reading it the third time (not only because its one of the few German books that I have

Posted in book

GPU Technology Conference 2010

NVIDIA has announced that its second GPU Technology Conference will take place at the San Jose Convention Center from Sept. 20 to 23rd.  Thus, compared to last year, the organizers select a larger venue, allowing more people to attend the

Posted in computer, programming, travel

Changes

In the last days I have been quite busy in my job. Not with the usual tasks, but undergoing a “training” week. Why I join this? Because, by April 1st I got a permanent position and new staff is requested

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