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Re: Learning German

Ingoal — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:22:47 -0000

Or just ask some of your readers, which are german...*lol*...like me ;-)

"Ich möchte ein Bier bitte!" - I would like to have a beer.
"Ein Bier bitte" - One beer, please.

Make sure you try the berlin beer speciality "Berliner Weisse mit Schuss", too :-)

Greets from South-West Germany...

Re: Technosailor Endorses Bush for President

Ingoal — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 10:37:55 -0000

Bush? Bah! Sorry to say that, but listening to your little rant about "what's done is done and cannot be undone" made me shake my head. If the current president is starting a war based on lies and false information (to whatever extent he might have known that is hard to decide), ignoring what the UN is stating then I can't understand how someone could just whipe it off like that...It's just ridiculous...this war wasn't about terrorism (what threat had Hussein posed?!) this war was all about oil and power in the middle east - not more and not less. If you're a supporter of such policy then you should indeed go ahead and support Dubbya.

On another note:

1: I admit that I'm a little biased here as I'm still a litte pissed of that we (the german ppl) are paying for the reconstruction of iraq - although we ("old europe") protested and didn't want a war at all cost.

2: I watched Fahrenheit 9/11 and all prior Michael Moore movies and series

3: Why did I jump in the middle of this again?

Re: Technosailor Endorses Bush for President

Ingoal — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:51:31 -0000

Yup...I'm hearing you. I guess one cannot fully understand how much pressure there is (or can be) from all sides unless you're in such a position (and chances are slim we will ever feel the kind of pressure the "leader of the free world" is feeling every day)...So I guess you've got a point there: in certain situation there's nothing like THE right thing to do...(or maybe there is, but what that right thing is may differ depending on the point of view, political constraints, etc)...

That said: Everyone is free to support whoever the want to...so: I will never support GWB, on the other hand I respect your decision ;-)

Re: Silicon Valley Cracks Me Up

Ingoal — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 17:04:39 -0000

Old school...1970s:

"You've decided for the world that it's time for a change. Join the geek revolution"

(see here: <a href="http://www.ingoal.info/archives/2004/11/18/geek/trackback/%29http://www.ingoal.info/archives/2004/11/18/geek... />

:-)

Re: Blogrolling: New Blogs this week

Ingoal — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 09:42:03 -0000

Thanks for the praise Aaron, but I guess "great football player" is a little bit exaggerated, I consider people like "van da man" or Thierry Henry to be great players, I'm just a minor league player who enjoys bending the ball :-)

Re: Blogrolling: New Blogs this week

Ingoal — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:26:26 -0000

Hehe, I guess less than I know about american sports or exactly as much as I understand cricket ;-) ?!

Re: Red Sox Curse in the Moon?

Ingoal — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:41:26 -0000

Good thing I had my broom ready...starts to sweep :-)

Re: SOX WIN!

Ingoal — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:52:05 -0000

I'm not really shocked, after seeing most of the matches against the Yankees and especially due to the fact that they forced a game 7 and then won it, I thought that they didn't only deserve to walk away with it, but that they would do it! Although I didn't think it would be a sweep.

Re: MySQL 4.1 Production Ready

Ingoal — Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:19:36 -0000

Now that sounds good. Subqueries! Finally...

Re: Happy Veteran’s Day

Ingoal — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:44:34 -0000

Aight! "There seems to be a misconception in some areas of the blogosphere that to be successful, you must be non-confrontational."

I agree with that, this is truely a misconception.

I think there are different assests which (can) define a "successful" blog:

1. The author writes interesting stuff and/or posts new stuff that wasn't posted anywhere else yet ("creativity").

2. The author posts news from around the web (e.g. noteworthy links)

3. The author writes about topics that (s)he cares about (e.g. some of your recent posts; most of Sean's posts; etc) regardless of the possible reaction of his/her reader(s)

4. Reason x

..

x. Reason x+4

I think that discussion is always a positive thing and so it's just fine that you'll do what you do...and yes, I will continue to do what I do ;-)

Re: Hosting Site

Ingoal — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:04:34 -0000

*lol* @ Jeremy and Vinnie

Re: Top 11 Little Known Firefox Extensions

Ingoal — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:08:54 -0000

lol! I especially like #7 :-)

Re: I’m a 90s Geek

Ingoal — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:10:41 -0000

Re: Hosting Site

Ingoal — Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:37:47 -0000

Yup, it really confused me that Philadelphia was getting back to the line of scrimmage so slowly?! In the end the turnovers were what broke their neck (impressive performance by the NE defense and bad decisions by McNabb (sometimes force by the pressure))...Congrats to the Pats...a dynasty in the making!

Re: Happy Thanksgiving and Black Friday

Ingoal — Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:09:45 -0000

Hands-free cell phone laws? Hehe...this is so 2001 (!) - it's prohibited to phone without a handsfree set since February 1st 2001 here in Germany...and rightly so IMO...

Re: Hint, Hint

Ingoal — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 13:01:09 -0000

Groovy...and the price is looking better and better :-)

On another note: what Carol already asked: if it's called "Blog starter" shouldn't you say something about that? Is a blogging software like Wordpress preinstalled or is it just the normal support for such software (mysql-dbs)?

Re: Commenting is FUBAR

Ingoal — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:51:22 -0000

Test, test...Now that's better... :-)

On another note: I guess totally unrelated to this problem: is there something wrong with your blogroll (right hand)...it seems that some blogs (e.g. Jeremy's, mine,...) don't update - hence the stay where they are even if there was a new post...?!

Re: Commenting is FUBAR

Ingoal — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:47:04 -0000

I see..hmm..anything I could do to get this automated (ping blogrolling?) - if so: do you have any information about it as I can't get the site to open atm...

Re: Commenting is FUBAR

Ingoal — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:29:26 -0000

Alrighty, I added http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/ to my "Update Services"...so it should be updated now?!

Which URL is listed: hmm, don't know yet haven't posted since adding it yet...

Re: Commenting is FUBAR

Ingoal — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:15:44 -0000

New post...top of the blogroll almost right away...so that seems to be solved. Groovy :-)

Re: Cartography

Ingoal — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:37:25 -0000

Hmm...not bad, although tbh I liked the red- or blueish theme a little better, but I guess we'll get used to it ;-)

Re: Another New Theme

Ingoal — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 08:06:38 -0000

Hehe...groovy...everything is working fine now, cheers!

Re: The Principles of Life

Ingoal — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:16:40 -0000

Re: My Friend Was Murdered

Ingoal — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 21:03:42 -0000

Now that's awful news! It's indeed not easy to deal with something like this, especially if a person that you care about is taken from you at such a young age.

My prayers are with his family, you Aaron and Sean, and all who knew him. May he rest in peace.

Re: Official State Mythical Creature

Ingoal — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:29:21 -0000

OMG! An official state mythical creature?! I guess you gotta be bored out of your mind to come up with something like this. Don't they have other, more important, issues on their hands?

Re: RIF

Ingoal — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:53:41 -0000

Ouch...now that's a bummer! Make sure you take your time to relax after work...we all know what continuous work-overload can do to a person (burnout, etc)...

Re: Job Offer

Ingoal — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:47:25 -0000

Hmm, tough call, especially due to the fact that you didn't say anything about the length of your contract if you take the new job (unlimited?), or the job security there (what's secure these days anyway)...

On another note: as you said yourself "Who knows what kind of hornets nest I'll be walking into, if any at all." - if you're feeling fine with your current position I wouldn't risk it, although your current position might (or will) change due to the 50% decrease in work force...

Re: The Technosailor family Grows

Ingoal — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:45:13 -0000

Nice one...SPF Marketplace strikes again :-)

Welcome Mark...looking forward to read your posts!

Re: Patriot-ic Ending

Ingoal — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:53:25 -0000

Re: Amazon Shipping Blowout

Ingoal — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 05:19:30 -0000

This is really a good deal - if you're already a regular customer of Amazon or looking forward to be one. This is a really smart move of Amazon (customer retention - you're going to order as much as possible from them to maximize your savings and all?!)

For me this would be no big deal as Amazon Germany has free shipping on most things anyway, at least the stuff I order most (books) and the shipping over here is like "i ordered in the afternoon and the package arrives the next morning" in most cases...

Re: Wordpress 1.5 Goes “Gold”

Ingoal — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:18:55 -0000

I see a busted site...just tried to upgrade...and everything seemed fine, but now the site isn't responding (500 internal server error)...now I've gotta wait until the support team get's to it :-(

Re: Wordpress 1.5 Goes “Gold”

Ingoal — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:53:29 -0000

Dang...d'oh...too bad that you don't see .htaccess in normal view (both ssh and ftp)...so I totally forgot about that...cheers Aaron...off to fix that :-)

Re: Wordpress 1.5 Goes “Gold”

Ingoal — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:02:55 -0000

Already done...now I need to fix some minor issues (like the missing header image and stuff)...

Re: Retiring TechnoClassic

Ingoal — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 07:21:08 -0000

Noooooooo!

Hmm, I guess I'll have to choose Fog than (as I can't get used to the brown'ishness of Carthography)...

Re: Week in Review: Link Round Up

Ingoal — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:37:42 -0000

Hands-free cell phone laws? Hehe...this is so 2001 (!) - it's prohibited to phone without a handsfree set since February 1st 2001 here in Germany...and rightly so IMO...

Re: Peak Oil

Ingoal — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:55:43 -0000

$2.31 per gallon

1 gallon = 3.78 liters

0.61$ / liter

Hmm...I guess you should come over to germany, then you could really start complaining:

1liter "normal" = 91octane: 1l = 1.14 â‚¬ = 4,30â‚¬/gallon = 5,57$

1l "super" = 95octane: 1l = 1.17â‚¬ = 4,42â‚¬/gallon = 5,73$

All due to extremely high taxes. No wonder that germany's car manufacturer's are coming up with more and more efficient motors every year...

Re: Peak Oil

Ingoal — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:12:46 -0000

True true, although in the long run we will run out of oil (not in the next few hundreds years I guess, but who knows), so new technologies have got to step up - although that is really difficult. Take a look at renewable energies:

1. Solar stuff - we could already have cars running with solar panels (just have a look at recent efficiency improvements): problem - the car industry in cooperation with the oil-companies, they don't want any of that...we could already have this up and running IMO...

2. Fuel Cells - we've seen major improvements over the last 10 years (Mercedes Benz is even running some busses with fuel cells already...: problem - still not 100% ready for everyday use + major costs and use of fossil fuels in the production process of needed hydrogen)

3. Natural gas - a real alternative, I already tested a Fiat with dual-drive (natural gas + gas - switchable) and it rocks: problem - the oil companies have no interest in promoting this technology so there's maybe 1 in 200 gas stations providing natural gas at all...

4. Other combo-systems (electrical motor + gas motor)...not bad for a transition period, but we should really get away from the oil...

Re: Peak Oil

Ingoal — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:39:07 -0000

"I can foresee nuclear power in everyday life 100 years from now but not in the near term."

Yup, that would be nuclear fusion by then though?!

The idea of a nuclear reactor powered car strangely reminds me of the Delorean from "Back to the future" - can you say: HomeFusion :-)

Re: I’ve won an OSCAA

Ingoal — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:04:57 -0000

Congrats Aaron!

Re: Technosailor Birthday Drawing

Ingoal — Tue, 10 May 2005 08:22:05 -0000

Congrats to one year of great blogging, Aaron! I'm really looking forward to know what the Technosailor.com memorabilia is going to be...a t-shirt would definitely rock ;-)

Re: Yahoo! Please Call Me!

Ingoal — Wed, 11 May 2005 19:24:27 -0000

Good luck Aaron, fingers crossed...

Re: Moving on to Rockville

Ingoal — Mon, 23 May 2005 09:50:19 -0000

I think it's a "win-win situation" as you put it, there's no point in working with people (or one person) which is totally off track...better luck at the new office!

Re: Feedster Feed of the Day

Ingoal — Tue, 31 May 2005 11:46:27 -0000

Congrats Aaron :-)

Re: Pre-order Blogging Book

Ingoal — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:20:19 -0000

Yup, I saw that a few days ago...I'm still pondering whether to use Jeremy's fundable offer, but I guess I'll go with the Amazon preorder as just under 17$ sounds better to me :-)

Re: More on “the Book”

Ingoal — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:45:24 -0000

Sounds good! Put me on the "wants a signed copy" list ;-)

Re: Crash Into Me, Yea…

Ingoal — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:27:58 -0000

Ouch! Glad to hear that noone is hurt and that everything will be covered by insurance...

Re: Two Birthday Beers and a Cajun Chicken Sandwich

Ingoal — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 16:06:12 -0000

Ouch, now that really sucks. Noone should be alone on his birthday :-(

Nontheless: Happy belated birthday!

Re: Two Birthday Beers and a Cajun Chicken Sandwich

Ingoal — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:33:02 -0000

*Scratches head* takes back belated birthday which is really a upfront happy birthday wish...*scratches head again*...alrighty...I'll be back to congrat you tomorrow then as it's a bad omen to congrat somebody prior to his real birthday - at least over here ;-)

Re: Two Birthday Beers and a Cajun Chicken Sandwich

Ingoal — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:09:02 -0000

Well, the "god of luck" is often smiling happily on me...especially on recent card games... :-)

Re: Two Birthday Beers and a Cajun Chicken Sandwich

Ingoal — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 20:02:20 -0000

Happy birthday (this time I should be in time, right ;-) ?)!!!

Re: Blocked Comments

Ingoal — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:23:13 -0000

Well, I've been blocked for the first time today...so I guess now I won't be anymore, yippi!

On another note: I just added another gun to my antispam arsenal (on top of Kitten's Spaminator): Bad Behaviour

Success so far: double thumbs up...near 0 spam to moderate anymore and no complaints so far - after all other blogs (i.e. Jeremy over at ensight) are using it too and if there were any major problems someone would have heard complaints and made a post about it...

Re: Did Kerry Cheat in the Debate?

Ingoal — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 07:43:17 -0000

Good thing I had my broom ready...starts to sweep :-)

Re: Ads in Place

Ingoal — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:36:47 -0000

I was wondering when you would start to put some ads up. I consider ads on a blog not to be a disruption or "selling out", it's just a way to get some money back (covering hosting costs, etc) and if you make a buck or two extra, why not?

You're spending time on writing, maintaining the site, dealing with comments, interacting with people - this is usually not out of the interest of making money, but for the love of doing it, but if you can make some without any extra effort: do it!

On another note: everyone is doing it - whether the content (or blog itself) is "good" or not, so you've got every right to put some ads up, especially if they're not overbearing... :-)

Re: Changes Today

Ingoal — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:00:30 -0000

Aaron, I love the new design, especially the header part! Nice!

Re: Twitter Updater for Wordpress

Ingoal — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:42:55 -0000

Happy testing...hope it works well...if not you know where to drop by ;)

Re: Question of the Week: How Often Do You Upgrade Your PC?

Ingoal — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:45:54 -0000

Well, the options on the poll are a little limited...I used to do the whole incremental upgrade thing (new processor here, new video card there)....then I stopped all that. Nowadays I upgrade when I feel it's worth doing so (e.g. new generation of cpus etc...e.g. DualCore processors with new fast DDR2 ram, etc)...so around 2-3 years would be a good number....on that note...just order parts for a new pc :-)

Re: German shopkeepers save me hundreds of dollars

Ingoal — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:44:56 -0000

Good to hear that you enjoyed your stay...and as far as the shops (or their opening hours) go: Haha! If you're living over here, you're so used to it (not open on sunday, etc) that you don't even think about how weird it might seem for other people...and believe me, we're already happy over here that most stores have new, longer, opening hours on saturday (they used to close down at 2pm the latest a few years back)...