Monthly Archives: March 2005

Program cell phone to play Innagaddadavida when it rings. Next challenge: Black Dog (tough) Spend 8 hours trying to install Mysql on iBook. Realize that it is installed just fine but you made a syntax error 8 hours ago and … Continue reading →

Good news: I am an uncle. On Thursday, March 24th, 2005, my sister Betsy and her husband Jorge had a baby girl: Yness Sofia Martinez. Yeah!! My brother Ben turned 20 on Easter Sunday Bad news: I am sick with … Continue reading →

An interesting article about the increasing number of home studios and the effect this has had on the the bid recording studios. There’s a tambourine in Adam Pierce’s bedroom, two upright pianos and some Balinese gamelan instruments in his living … Continue reading →

Here are three articles from the English version of the F.A.Z. . The first two deal with the serious and sad plight of many Muslim women living in Germany and other European countries. The last article is an American’s light-hearted … Continue reading →

Oh Look! Blogger is working today. On Monday a coworker celebrated his 30th birthday. Because he is still unmarried he had to sweep at the Marktplatz. It works like this. Any man who is still unmarried by his 30th birthday … Continue reading →

Oh man oh man! I know exactly the frustration this American guy went through to get his German driver’s license. “Germany recognizes only the licenses of 24 U.S. states that have taken the trouble to negotiate a reciprocity agreement. If … Continue reading →

Bonkers over Bread | Culture & Lifestyle | Deutsche Welle | : “Germany has more kinds of bread than any other country and every year new varieties are released to an enthusiastic public. They call bread the staff of life … Continue reading →

I made some template changes and then republished all the blog entries but when I do that Blogger likes to replace umlauts and apostrophes with wacky symbols and nonsense. Damn. So if you see strange symbols, don’t worry. I know. … Continue reading →

I got linked to by BusinessWeek last week. Check it out!: Blogging’s Cure for the Expat Blues. “ONLINE THERAPY. The big question: Is anyone reading Dispatches from France, An American in London, Notes from Germany, and the rest? Apparently so. … Continue reading →

I found this link over on Agitpropolis. I have it on good authority from an Irish colleague that this story is indeed true, as it was in her local paper.