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So it seems that tomorrow is the night the war begins (full moon rising, one day after the “ultimatum”). I didn’t grow up when the saying was “Make love, not war”. When I was a young adult, we watched war on CNN and heard that making love was dangerous (AIDS). “Make War, not Love” seemed to be the motto. And now the time has come again… I’m saddend by this, angry. ...

I had to drill a couple of holes today to hang a picture and a piece where the kids can hang their clothes. We have solid concrete walls and my old power-drill just didn’t cut it. So today I went out and bought a new one: 750W instead of 400W. A second grip in front to hold the drill better. A distance measurment device that prevents deeeeep holes. It took about 4 seconds to drill each of the four holes. ...

Tja - da hab ich also zwei wunderbare Kinder. 3 und 5 Jahre alt. Ein Quell ständiger Freude. Das Ende meiner Nerven. Die Ursache meiner grauen Haare. Aber ab und zu darf man die Perlen des Elternseins erleben… Mein Sohn übt im Kindergarten das Theaterstück: “Schneewittchen”. Er wird einen der sieben Zwerge spielen. Als ich ihn fragte, wie ihm das Stück gefalle, sagt er sinngemäss: “Das Stück ist blöd und dann bin ich traurig”. Ich hab ihn gefragt wieso er denn traurig sei. Da meinte er: “Der blöde Prinz kriegt die Prinzessin und nimmt sie uns einfach weg.” ...

What happens when you have uptime of over 200 days and you need to reboot your linux machine? You forget how to do things. And if you don’t have the documententation handy…. Here’s how the Notes server on linux is started: su notes cd /usr/local/notesdata /opt/lotus/bin/server or for a more detailes script, check out this entry on notes.net

Here I am at my Wife’s Sisters computer, trying to fix a printer that no longer prints black. (Google tells me that the printhead probably is clogged with dried black ink) Anyway - I’m accessing the Internet to diagnose this problem - nothing special there. But I’m doing so, using a 56k Modem. God - how can anybody bear that kind of slowness? Have I really drooled back in the old days, when I got my first 2400 baud, my first 14'400 baud modem? Nowadays, anything under 512kb speed just seems unbearable… (and then you also have to wait until the modem has dialed, negotiated, etc. - I’m so used to being always on) ...

Interestingly, my old blog (on the Wiki) doesn’t work when I access it with my browsers, from my computer. But when working on a different computer, it shows up fine (minus CCS, minus images) - well, time to move the more interesting entries to this new format.