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Exit Strategy

May refer to:
Door
Portal (architecture), an opening in the walls of a structure
Emergency exit
Overwing exit, a type of emergency exit on an airplane
Exit ramp, a feature of a road interchange

Foul Apple

I´ve been to five shops in Cologne yesterday and today asking for a third party power adapter for my iPad, because the original Apple device blew on my holidays. In all shops I was told they are only selling the Apple product (I heard prices from 29 to 58 Euros...) and there was no such thing as a working third party power adapter for the iPad. After the fifth shop I went over to my nearby office, where a third party power adapter was waiting in my desk. iPad is loading now...

So Apple users, ever had they feeling you have been brainwashed and conned big times?

(Third party power adapter was around 12 Euros when I bought it last year btw.)

Up To Four Billion...

...people watched the opening ceremony of the olympics on tv worldwide??? I didn´t, bummer!

I Do Hate It

Did I ever mention I hate the carnival season? Yes I do, wholeheartedly! Best sight was already on Thursday, when it started in town. A young guy out of his mind by noon already pissing in public and the juice went all over his trousers. He looked at the stains, turned to his mate and took a mouthful out of a lemonade bottle filled with alcohol. But the season ends today and we can get back to normal. Thank you!

Just Piles Of

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Apple Does Have No Silly Bugs

Anyone only remotely believing in such nerdish marketing phrases, should look up the Disappearing Folder Bug reported in iOS 4.2 by various users around the globe. It hit me this week, after carefully backing up my iPad with iTunes. Just to make sure, my freshly installed iPad is save from harm... So far there is no solution and the incident could happen again and again. After hours of setting up the ipad and arranging apps I payed for. No respect whatsoever, this is serious bullshit.

1930 Revisited?

The impact of the financial crisis is showing its ugly face again. The prophets of doom are reciting their "worse than the great depression" verses and the outlook for autumn seems so be a huge end of the year rally, but steady downwards. The conspiracy theories preaching all financial fuses to be blown by 2012 are growing. And what did the Mayans predict again? Riots, starvation, instability - all is on the menu. But first lets add some panic, maybe on the tenth anniversary of 09/11. Panic in Detroit, as David Bowie sang.

The Mob Is On The Loose

The Great Club Upstairs

Yesterday was a black day for house music, because Darryl Pandy and Kenny Hawkes both left to the great clubbing area upstairs. Both artists will be sadly missed, 2011 already did prove it has many losses for us in store.

There Seems To Be...

...no other topic for the last days other than the royal wedding in England. Barmy, barmy! It´s just two mortals marrying each other, it is not the second coming of a deity, the arrival of world peace or a jackpot for the mankind. Get over it!

Strange Day

1. Spotted a woman walking sideways in the subway, eyeing a flower shop as if it was the prey of a shark.

2. Saw two tramps trying to put fabric conditioner at the wheels of a pram of a proud Turkish mum.

3. Witnessed a man lying on some stairs in the bright sunlight, behaving as if it was his couch at home.

Loleatta Holloway

05.11.1946 - 21.03.2011

Kurt Hauenstein

    14.01.1949 - 20.03.2011

 © www.ossifant-foto.at

11.03.2011

Feel So Real?

Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
And build them a home, a little place of their own
The Fletcher Memorial Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings
And they can appear to themselves every day
On closed circuit T.V.
To make sure they're still real
It's the only connection they feel

Where In The World?

Where is a definite statement of Mr. Barack  Hussein Obama II about people striving for their freedom in Africa and the Middle East right now? Seems he is badly trapped halfway between his MLK 2.0 role and the duties of being an US president... So lets watch the news and keep reminding him!

That Was It

I´m seriously getting old... January passed as if it was seven days or something. The acceleration of modern life has got me. I can already see autumn coming and I am scratching my head concerning xmas presents. Argh!

On-Call Service

It´s very interesting that many people come up with one basic conclusion in this networked world: everyone has to provide 24/7 on-call service! If they don´t receive an instant reply on the phone, via e-mail or whatever they tend to become upset. Not so much because there is some fire burning that has to be blown out, but because instant messaging and mobile phone MEANS everyone has to be avaiable all of the time for interaction.

Which is untrue, because with every mobile phone one can switch the ringtone off, leave it in a dim lit corner of their home or simply ignore its presence for a few days. Facebook is good for chatting but aswell chats can be denied. Even the landline in my home is not the red telephone of my life. "The Doctor Is Out", as read in The Peanuts.

Can´t...

...wait for xmas time being over for nearly a year!

Consume Or Die

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The Chinese Way

If you want to have a look at the way China sees the world in Google Earth style, just follow this link. Apart from the detailed view of the mainland China itself, many other countries are stripped from giving away too much information. Censorship anyone?

Shopping Result Of The Day

Just found out  that pomegranate-blueberry juice is not the drink I fancy at nine in the morning, no matter how cute the bottle looks like. Especially not if 236 ml cost nearly two Euros. Avoid!

If we don't play tomorrow, we'll never play again

The tragic deaths of young people at the Loveparade last weekend instantly brought memories of  Cincinnati in 1979 back. Eleven fans died at a concert of The Who and neither the band nor the audience did get to know this until the show was finished. Read more about itin this classic Time article "Music: The Stampede to Tragedy".

Spam Of The Day

Way back in 2000, you bought a CD from my store, CD Baby.
 (BILLIE RAY MARTIN: four ambient tales. Remember?)
So you might be interested in my new free projects to help musicians:
(...)
They're all free, open-source, and non-commercial (except MuckWork), so I'm not emailing you for any business reason.
But since we've emailed in the past, I thought I should let you know what's new.
I left CD Baby two years ago, so this is the last time you'll hear from me, unless you reply back or click those links.
Though if you do reply, please let me know what's going on with you (really!), in case I can help in any way, and to keep this from being a one-sided conversation. :-)
Thanks!
--
Derek Sivers [email protected] http://sivers.org/c/N6Kgj

Blooper Of The Day

A German railway official on a delayed express train, that didn´t stop at a certain location and had other faults aswell: "We say goodbye and excuse us for any convenience you had travelling with us today" - well said!

What A Scam!

  VOM SCHREIBTISCH
  DIE LEITUNG INTERNATIONALEN BEFOERDERUNGEN
  MICROSOFT CORPORATION! INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY INC,
  EUROPAEISCHE GEBIET GEBÄUDE,
  2-16 COLVILLES PLACE
  MICROSOFT CORPORATION ESTATE
  EAST KILBRIDE,
  GLASGOW G75 0SN,
  SCOTLAND.
============================== === ==
  REF NR.:MSN/22986549
  **********************************************
  STAPEL NR.:2956490900/289
  **********************************************
  DATUM: 5.08.2009
  **********************************************
  BETRAG:€1,800,000.00
  **********************************************
  GEBIET: EUROPA
  **********************************************
  PROGRAMM: MICROSOFT WINDOWS! LOTTERY INC.
  ============================== =====

And how poorly translated!

You Can´t Use...

...this DVD funtion at the moment, or so my DVD player often tells me during the first minutes of a DVD. And this happens with DVDs I just bought for good money! First you pay your money, second you can´t use all functions on the DVD because third they want you to watch a "brilliant" company logo rotating or some boring warning spot targetted at bootleggers. Beg your pardon? I bought the DVD and the player!!! It´s a rather good encouragement to get some bootleg copies next time which have been stripped from these silly routines. And of course this crap has to be our daily insanity today!

Pine Mouth

Do you have a bitter taste on your tounge and in your mouth whenever you eat something? Will the bitter taste last for a while, even after clear liquids have been consumed? Doesn´t it feel metallic and foul too?

Well, don´t think of replacing all your old teeth fillings in a sudden rush, as you might have been eating a healthy salad or fine pasta not so long ago. Which had pine nuts in the meal, in case you forgot to remember this.

This symptom has been reported for a while, as you can read e.g. here. The good message is it will go away again, the bad is it might last between three days and two weeks. Sources claim this only happens with cheap imported brands of pine nuts, e.g. the small ones from China. And it doesn´t happen to all people eating the same batch. Insane!

June Already!

Time flies, last stop was March or something! Next month we´re mid-summer and will start worrying about days getting shorter again. And the damn autumn weather plus the possible x-mas presents. And where to go to on New Years Eve. Exactly like that. Time flies.

Mad Mail Poetry Again

So liess ihm der Genuss der Ruh
Den stillen Wald durchfunkelt.
Am alten grauen Turme
Begleitet mit Göttinger Wurst-Zitaten.
Der Ware gratis geben wollte!
denn alte Weisheit spricht:
Ich pflücke nimmer mehr dich;
sie hatten die Köpfe mit einer Kokard,
hasst warmen Drang und warmen Klang
Drunten singt bei Wies' und Quelle

Who sends this mad shit by mail anyway? Didn´t have some for a while, but this came in today. Still, it has some insanity factor to it...

Global Repairs

Imagine you take your iPod Classic 160 GB to Malaysia to provide some entertainment during the flight and three weeks of vacations. After less than half of the time your device stops working, can not be switched on or reloaded again.

Back home in Europe you start searching for things that could have gone wrong, but not a single clue does help. Asking Apple is not much use either, because the iPod is one and a half years old and no extended warranty scheme was arranged. Apple dealers have vaguely heard about iPods biting the dust in the tropics but don´t know details and surely can´t do anything.

So in the end all that does work is sending it back and giving them your credit card details. They find out the iPod must be replaced and charge around 190 Euros for this. A couple of days later a device arrives by airmail from Shanghai. Shiny and new, but not a single line or explanation about what was wrong with the old one. So basicly one iPod more "sold", without any valid information why the old one couldn´t be repaired or what to avoid next time. Global repairs indeed...