Ministry of Propaganda - 09/Sep/2003: "What should I write about today?"
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What should I write about today?
OK, various things to write about. Let's make it a list with various entries:
- Boys need toys. My new laptop arrived yesterday. Widescreen display, 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth, DVD/CD-RW, Pentium® M Processor 1.5 Ghz, dual Trackstick/Touchpad, all mod cons. I did the basic setup yesterday, but won't transfer the software and files from my current laptop until the weekend. Until then I'll continue writing my entries on the trusted old 8100...
- Talking about computers, I still have an old desktop for sale: Dell XPS R350, Pentium® II Processor 450mhz, 64 MB SDRAM, 17'' Monitor, 6.4GB HD, Iomega 100MB Zip drive, CD-ROM, Subwoofer and speakers. It's yours for GBP 50 (well, and you'd have to pick it up from Swindon. I'm not sending it anywhere). Any takers?
- Let's mix some blogging in: Thomas Nephew has completed his German Blogger series, Part III is about PapaScott, an American in Germany. In case you missed them, here are Part I and Part II. Go. Read. Das ist ein Befehl!
- In other news: I'll be moving house soon. Not voluntarily unfortunately: My landlady is returning from the US, where she worked for a few years. Hence she needs her flat again and gave me notice. Well, luckily I've found a similar place just down the road. Contract to be signed on Friday, then moving over the next two weeks. I'll use the opportunity for a cleanout (hence the attempt to sell the old PC), I might have several items to sell or give away. I might be offline for a few days when I move my broadband connection, but I'll make a last post before that happens.
- It's not really news, the Gesellschaft für Deutsche Sprache has been complaining about it for years. But now the Guardian has picked up on Denglisch (via PapaScott). It's quite funny, when I moved back to Germany after my first few years in England (before returning to England again...) it didn't really feel like leaving England: When I received my first telephone bill from Deutsche Telekom it almost felt like one from BT, it was all in English. Some were a bit weird, like the "Moonshine-Tarif", but hey...
- Childhood memories (sorry, only for German speaking readers): Burg Schreckenstein (via fellow German expat The Cartoonist). I'm not sure where they are now, I think my sister has them now. I think we had all of them. Imke, if you read this, can you comment?
I think that will have to do for now, back to the Scotland Summer 2003 travelogue, still quite a few pages to do...
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Entry trivia
When writing this entry the weather was: Cloudy, mild compared to yesterday, dry
When writing this entry I was listening to: U2 - All that you can't leave behind
During the last hour before I wrote this entry I visited this website: PapaScott
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