nieder mit den nutzern!

hier ein wunderbarer artikel über den nutzen der konservativen unternehmensstragegien!

wer sich mündige angestellte sucht und auf ihre bedürfnisse achtet ist einfach selber schuld ;)

curious family business

It is really interesting what one comes accross when searching for some technical information on the internet. The following excerpt is from an msdn developer's blog which i was browsing for information on wf. It was just too good to keep it for myself ;)

What kind of uncle am I?

Like every language, English has its own collection of words to express family relationships. There are the easy ones like mother, father, brother, and sister. Also comparatively easy are cousin, aunt, uncle, niece and nephew. But most people don't know about this "removal" part, beyond the fact that your "first cousin twice removed" is somebody you probably met once at a wedding ten years ago.

It's really not that complicated. Some people think removal has to do with estrangement, but actually it has to do with generations. The children of your Nth cousin are your Nth cousins once removed. Their grandchildren are your Nth cousins twice removed. In general, to find your Nth cousin K times removed, go to your Nth cousin and then follow their children K times.

You can also look at it from the point of view of the younger relative: Your Nth cousin K times removed is the Nth cousin of your Kth direct ancestor, where K = 1 is your parent, K = 2 is your grandparent, etc. For example, your father's second cousin is your second cousin once removed. There's a nice chart at genealogy.com that depicts many of these more complicated relationship terms.

here is an article on the terminology ;)

the plant

in memory to its twin

another curiosity

there exists a 'buy nothing day'.. wonder if it is useful??

anyway, on the webpage there are a few interesting articles on bad company awards, shopping or not, etc.

//magic happens here

magic

downloading...

an old joke from w3schools:

customer: i want to download the internet. do i need a bigger hard drive?

download the internet here

your language or my language?

i'm ever again amazed how queezy i feel about speaking somebody's language when i'm at home if they don't know that i am capable of doing so. i really wonder why it makes me feel that awkward, and also if i'm the only person with that problem..

current mood ;)

modell eines frustfaktors

heute bin ich zufällig wieder einmal über die kommunikationsmodelle von schulz von thun gestolpert. besonders betroffen macht mich wieder einmal das teufelskreismodell, denn man steckt darin so oft selbst fest, ohne es bewusst zu merken oder ohne konkreten einfall wie man den kreis durchbrechen könnte. schnell gehts es meistens ohnehin nicht, genausowenig ohne beträchtliche (oder gerade wegen der notwendigen) persönlichkeitsentwicklung der beteiligten. und ob der willen oder die fähigkeit dazu im entscheidenden moment gegeben ist? ob wirklich die beteiligten selbst alles stemmen können? oder braucht es dazu hilfe von außen, um alternativen zu erkennen und blinde flecken mit inhalt zu füllen?

Loosing track of time

I am currently observing an interesting phenomenon: loss of temporal orientation. It feels like some kind of overflow in my brain, where suddenly I can not even remember that I wanted to do a certain thing at a certain point in time (like go to the shop on my way home from work). I just forget about them. In addition, I have to really pull myself together in order to not get lost between the days of the week (and consequently to be in the right places at the right times). It is like being completely alone in a silent bubble, sharing life just from the perspective of an observer, just seeing but not hearing, who does not really understand what is happening around them.

Even though I have a lot of explanations for this confusion, I still am amazed that it can happen. I still don't know if I actually even like it - sometimes it makes me feel very relaxed, loosening the mechanisms of control I usually put around my activities - but on the other hand, the moment where you just in time realize you nearly skipped something is never too pleasant..