Alcohol Ramadan
This actually doesn’t even have anything to do with my wife and her family being Muslims – it was on Rouge’s blog that I found fitting inspiration. How about, we alter Ramadan a bit and make it, instead of an “eat only while the sun isn’t up”, a “drink no alcohol” month? Well, good plan [...]
Review: Twilight Imperium
This game is one I’ve been looking forward to actually playing for quite some time now. I bought Twilight Imperium 3rd Ed. (or TI3 in short, official site) and its expansion, Shattered Empire, quite some time ago, but alas, finding a time when everybody has time to actually sit together and play a game that [...]
Stop RFID in Swiss Passports!
The Swiss government has decided that our passports, like a few before ours, should store data on RFID chips. Meaning, the following data would be stored in that chip: fingerprints a digital photograph all the data that’s also available in printed form (name, gender, date of birth, eye color, and so on) All this data [...]
How the LHC Actually Works
Neotorama was featuring this really interesting explanation of how the Large Hadron Collider actually works yesterday evening: Linear acceleration, circular boosting in 4 packets with pulses, further acceleration in the proton synchotron (a larger ring) and gain of mass, further energy addition in the super proton synchotron, and finally the LHC itself with 2 rings [...]
Tangential Learning, Sex, and Games
If you’re a gamer, I’m sure you know Zero Punctuation — if not, take a seat and start with the very first ones. Because if you do, I’m sure you can’t stop until you’re through. OK, watched them all? Good. It’s important to acknowledge that Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw has done more than do good reviews [...]
Big Bang! Or is it?
In case you haven’t noticed, the world hasn’t ended yet. Which is good I guess, particularly since it’s despite the LHC (which stands for Large Hadron Collider, apparently) having been switched on this morning at CERN. Everybody’s celebrating, even Google, with one of their famous doodles (uhm … does “please do not use them elsewhere” [...]
WordPress Updated, Plugin List
So I just did my first WordPress update to 2.6.2, 2.6.1 had a security hole. It went remarkably smooth, considering the horror stores I read (link German, click the links in that post for more) – as a matter of fact, everything seems to work as it should again. I’ll take this opportunity to list [...]
What’s Wrong With VBA? (3/3)
part 1 – part 2 – part 3 This is the third part of a three-part series, have a look at part 1 and part 2 first. So let’s go on ahead and jump into the final bits of my troubles with MS Access and VBA as environment for medium and larger IT projects – [...]
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