Okay, I admit it: sometimes I go to the Apple website and have a look at the [Product Red] iPod nano (which I hope to be able to afford sometime this year) and then I try out various engravings. Since you can only order the red iPod online, I decided I want mine engraved and I think I know what I will put on the back of it. (Hint: it’s a quote from my favorite Babylon 5 character and the letter-restriction for the engraving leaves one word of the quote …

Just for record-keeping: the Swedish do not have the most attractive soccer team. There my colleagues informed we wrong.
True, after Louis Figo it is difficult to find another player that can match his … charm (I am desperately trying to avoid »sex appeal« here).
I mean, honestly: this guy looks just great. Now everyone is talking about Ronaldo, but he’s just a … I don’t know. He looks like he’s going to cry every time he doesn’t score or someone fouls him. Figo is a man, Ronaldo just a kid.
So, where …

Anyone out there who’d like to come by and remove that disgusting spider that has taken a liking to the ceiling of my apartment? Pretty please? :shock:
I hate spiders. And in this case my cat can’t help because she can’t get there and – since I am so afraid of that thing with the thin, long legs – I won’t lift my cat up (as I usually do when she’s hunting flies for example).
Oh, this is horrible … *leaves and gets the vacuum cleaner*

I like movies. Sometimes I even love them. Unfortunately, German tv doesn’t show them in their original language, which means I am always stuck with some more or less appropriate synchronization.
If you have ever seen »Armageddon« in German and in English you will know that they just completely screwed the translation up. Many of the funny lines don’t come through in the German translation. And I won’t even go to »The X-Files« and »Babylon 5«. The latter is especially terrible, sometimes the meaning of the dialogue is completely altered. It …

Auf der Suche im Webkatalog meiner Universitätsbibliothek bin ich gerade über ein Wortungetüm gestolpert, welches meine Kritik am zunehmenden Denglish zumindest kurzzeitig verstummen lässt.

Und ich dachte schon, mein Vater sei mit der Bezeichnung “Scheibe” für CD’s und DVD’s besonders kreativ, aber Videoplatte!?!
Ich hoffe, niemand versucht nach dem Lesen dieser Bezeichnung den Lesearm eines Schallplattenspielers auf eine DVD zu setzen …

Okay, don’t get me wrong: Just because I am an Apple user doesn’t mean that I am bashing Microsoft products just because they are from MS. The Office Suite is actually pretty decent and you can go far on it. But sometimes I just want to throw the PC out of the window … I just don’t do it because they PC belongs to the company I’m working for and I am not sure they’d react positive to the destruction of their property.
Anyway … I’ve been working with MS Office …

I just finished my final thesis! And before I sit down and read it for spelling mistakes and poor grammar choices, I just wanted to share a laugh with you. Obviously, the Mac and iTunes ads below are faked, but …