Month: October 2014
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how to refer to a book by its ISBN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0394471466 Simply replace the number above with the ISBN you are interested in!
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visiting my Berlin home gym for the BodyFit class after all this time in Hamburg wasn’t really that bad
I rather enjoyed being the 1st at the door – this may sound a little immature, but that’s the best place for “conquering” good space not too far away from the instructor and also rather close – I usually prefer the 2nd row and not quite vis à vis being “properly dressed” – 😎 – the…
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TEMPTATION: a 2nd “girls’ beer” at midnight, but within ten hours I would like to have more workout
www.schoefferhofer-weizen-mix.de – a rather tasty beer-lemonade mix, we call it girls’ beer I don’t want to let my body struggle against the alcohol poison during the workout, I think, that’s not worth the little joy right now.
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my Synology DS115J’s DSM had crashed, needed re-installing and re-setup
That’s quite annoying, but as opposed to initial announcements during the process the users’s home directories weren’t lost.
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the “computer repair for a friend” scheduled for this morning 08:30 cost me 6 hours
The computer appeared incredibly slow, it appeared to me, that unwanted pop-ups showed up in the browsers (IE + Firefox), removing McAfee seemed impossible (we wanted to replace it with proper AV software); after like 2 hours I decided, the notebook was highly infected and need restoring from the recovery partition; restoring from the recovery…
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“salem aleikhum – aleikhum salam” – I will miss that greeting in this post-Hamburg era
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-salamu_alaykum This beautiful and unique greeting exchange is something I started using to fraternise somehow with that young lad in the Hamburg office. I will definitely miss it now in this post-Hamburg era. Life isn’t always just. It’s not meant to be just AFAIR.
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if a manager spies on her team members through her team leaders, shouldn’t she tell the team members, before she sacks them?
Me just being a victim of her web spying and stalking, I am tempted to say: Yes, of course she should have told far earlier, what she likes and what she doesn’t. And to be very honest with you: Germany after WWII developed into a rather democratic and open-minded society, but that didn’t reach all…
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a nice Russian and Hebrew word: Балаган = בלגן – pronounced “balagan”, it means: disorder
The word originated from Persian “balatchan”, borrowed by Turkish as “bala han”, and from Turkish to Russian as “balagan”, since there’s no “h” in Russian it is always replaced with “g”. In Persian in meant “balcony” (which is the same word, same meaning), and also “attic”. In some Slavic language the word still has that…
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if a manager keeps standing on the corridor alongside her teams’ offices, hushing her employees, how do you call that?
Why doesn’t she simply sit at her own desk with the door closed, maybe silenting the world around with Indian mantras on her iPod, as I do occasionally, if I find the world around too distracting.
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“The Music of the Bible Revealed” by Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura
https://www.youtube.com/user/teamim I am listening to this music on my iPod right now at breakfast time, and I thought, I find it on YouTube and share it with you here.