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Tuesday, August 30, 2005   6:31 AM

Serial Novel Part 3

Yesterday we left Margarita begging the procurator, who had lost his marbles, not to talk of the turmoil at the Kiev church. Soon, Margarita is whisked away by the aging but active Styopa...


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Monday, August 29, 2005  11:30 PM

Serial Novel Part 2

In the first installment we left the heroine, Margarita, sitting side-saddle upon a bed beneath which were no frogs. Yet the balcony had made its scattered escape...


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Monday, August 29, 2005   7:25 AM

Serial Novel Part 1

"Ah, no, no, Messire", responded Margarita, who sat side-saddle, arms pretending to be angry. "There's no frog under the bed!" "Leave these cheap Variety", exhorted Maximilian Andreevich, who, using his innumerable acquaintances, had contrived to get her a change of linen. "In two hours citizen Homeless will be back here". So, it, unrolled it, spread it out between the lights, and, squinting, began to their seats and made straight for the buffet.


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Monday, August 29, 2005   7:09 AM

Otakus pay less

The otaku is a peculiarly Japanese phenomenon: an introverted mix of nerd and a trainspotter, whose girlfriends are more likely to be made of latex than wear spandex. But otaku are fast winning cult-status, as witnessed by the 2004 hit book Densha Otoko (電車男, Train Man), which tells the real story of a young, terminally shy and previously girlfriendless Tokyo man who came to the aid of a young woman on a train being molested by a drunk. This of course develops into a classic boy-meets-girl, boy-totally-unable-to-express-his-feelings-for-girl-type situation, the difference being the boy - posting anonymously as Densha Otoko on the popular BBS "2 channel" - gained encouragement from his peers, and two months later finally plucked up the courage to ask the girl for a date. Of course it all ended happily ever after.


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Thursday, August 11, 2005   6:29 AM

Google: Once Powered by Lego

Google is famed for its vast server farms of redundant Linux-based computers providing the core of its search service. But did you know the first experimental array of hard disks used by the Google founders were housed in a cage made of Lego™?

Google's Lego Storage System

The Stanford University (USA) computing facility museum has more photos here:


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Tuesday, August 9, 2005   8:21 PM

Evidently there's money in spam

I usually refrain from posting spam messages - this server has less than a terabyte of hard disk space - but this one caught my attention:


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Sunday, July 3, 2005   9:32 AM

Kartoffelkochen

Aus dem Internet erreichte mich folgendes lustiges Rundschreiben ohne Verfasserangabe:


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Thursday, June 30, 2005   9:36 AM

Das Geld liegt auf der Schiene

2004 war ein Rekordjahr für die japanische Bahngesellschaft JR West (das privatisierte Nachfolgeunternehmen der ehemaligen Staatsbahn, dessen Herrschaftsbereich sich etwa von Kyoto bis nach Shimonoseki an der westlichen Spitze der Hauptinsel Honshu erstreckt). Zumindest wie es der Anzahl von Fundsachen angeht, wo eine 106%ige-Steigerung gegenüber dem Vorjahr (680.000 statt 360.000 Stück) erreicht wurde (Quelle, nur Japanisch). Vorreiter waren Regenschirme (170.000 Stück) gefolgt von Kleidung und Fahrkarten.

Allerdings war der Bar-Ertrag etwas zurückgegangen: im Vergleich mit dem Jahr 2003 wurden ca. 23 Mio. Yen (etwa €200.000) weniger "eingenommen", insgesamt wurden "nur" 492.000.000 Yen (€ 4 Mio.) an Fundbargeld abgegeben. Zwar hätte sich die Bahn damit gleich 4 goldene Badewannen leisten können, die Mehrzahl der Funde konnte jedoch mit den jeweiligen Besitzern wiedervereinigt werden. Darunter auch eine Brieftasche mit 10.270.000 Yen (ca. €100.000) und sechs weitere Funde im Wert von jeweils mehr als 10.000 Euro.


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