Archive for January, 2005

Update, but not mine

Published on January 31, 2005 in mac stuff. Closed

Hi folks!

I know, I know - owe you something. Party pics, and the complete saturday story, which will be long. We’ve made a 13 hour long tour through Mexico which was just as good as it could be… hopefully I will have some time to post it with some nice pictures (I took about 500). But the update that the title of this post is talking about… NEW POWERBOOKS! Yes! Today it finally happened, the PBs got an update. Nothing extraordinary, but very nice. The new touchpad allows scrolling with two fingers on the pad, the drive grew from 60-80 to 80 standard up to 100GB, the keyboard backlight got improved, it has bluetooth2, and so on and so on… just look yourself at apple.com/powerbook.

But the ultrasupermegabest news: In the USA Apple Store for Students, my DESIRE aka PowerBook 15,2″ Display, 1,67MHz Processor, 128MB Graphics, 8x DVD Burner only costs 1,747.28 EUR. You realize something: That is far under the sisterly advised “stay under 2000 EUR to convince your daddy”. And in fact, in Germany the ultimate cheapest price for that machine is 2.173 EUR, that makes a fair difference (in case you don’t have a calculator or a working brain at hand of 425,72 EUR!!! Even when I want to equip the machine with a german keyboard later on which costs about 100EUR, savings are still great. And best: I got a bunch of my colleagues from WHU who are just up there in the states… we should be able to figure something out there, hm? DAD? :-)

So long

small changes for your convenience!

Published on January 27, 2005 in general. 2 Comments

;-)

I just changed the blog, so that you will only see the last 7 POSTS and not the last 7 DAYS, as all the pictures take terribly long to load when you just want to see what’s new. But they are still here! Just klick at the Archive of the current week, and -kazoom- everything as usual.

Enron

Published on January 27, 2005 in Mexico. Closed

Yippiieh! Tomorrow is the last class of “international finance”. Hm, the downside is, that as I was failing to hand in enough papers (today I did that the first time), I have to do some extra work to hand in tomorrow - but at least I was given the chance to make up for that!

I should upload some of the Pics from Hansjörgs birthday party on tuesday… that was a hard night, but a lot of fun. The Mexicans learned “Zum Geburtstag viel Glück” (and were pretty good at it!), and although it was a weekday and some people left quite early, we had a very good time. And then… well, let’s just say that we started playing some drinking games at 1:30am with those who were still there, and when I finally got in my bed, I could not close my eyes because then the whole world (and my stomach) started rolling and turning and all that nasty ship movements. So I held my eyes open until I fell asleep, which was at least 20 seconds :-)

I also took some short video sequences of the party, but I guess they are a bit too big to have them as a download here. What a shame! But at least I have some specials then to show you when I come home! A little preview: - Mexicans singing “Zum Geburtstag viel Glück” - Henning and Hansjörg dancing - Henning and Hansjörg doing some “Becherexen” - Hansjörg banging with the Mexicans

Yesterday a collegue set up a MSN account for me, because they are all chatting with MSN here… guess what my nick is? Right: bonner_ipade. Gosh! Now its official! I still have to meet professor Bonner and see if he really looks so much like me… but there has to be some truth in it, because really everybody here agrees on that.

Oh - why did I call that post “Enron”? We talked about the bankcrupt of Enron today. Well, these guys messed up big time. It is so crazy: A BILLION dollar firm, and they set up some nifty firms to reduce their debt (about 2000), and give them names like “Obi Invest” and “Kenobi blabl” and “JEDI” - all that names from star wars… Crazy. Unfortunateley, it did not work in the end, but it worked long enough to fool the shareholders, the banks and the employees and make the managers quite rich. Bastards. Weaselish bastards - but at least with a sense for good movies :-)

Mac Keynote 1984

Published on January 25, 2005 in mac stuff. Closed

Maybe you think I am a strange guy for that… but I felt such an enthusiasm watching this video that I was still smiling over and over an hour after I watched it. It is a recording from the Keynote Speech of Steve Jobs in 1984, where he presented the new Macintosh to the publich the first time. That was a tremendous brakethrough for the computer industry, one of the most important ones I guess. Download it (quite big file, attention Modem users!) and feel that spirit!Apple Keynote 1984

the cleanest war ever

Published on January 25, 2005 in general. Closed

Just let Google do the work! Insert two Words, Names, Cities, Phrases, Sentences, whatever, into this site, and via searching google for them the site will tell you who won! (I did it with Florian and Christine - and the undisputed champion is… 1. Christine (3,220,000) 2. Florian (989,000) ) Do it yourself!