There’s a new Crypto game online…try your luck/ability to decipher stuff here.
…Crack me if you can…
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Google Zeitgeist 2004
Google has released it’s annual list of the most popular search terms Zeitgeist 2004.
Sidenote: Weird to see the (german) word “Zeitgeist” in an english site.
Via Platinum Central
One search. all jobs
Nice job search engine indeed.com, I wonder when someone will implement something like this for my country (germany).
Via jeffcroft.com.
Blogroll
I decided it was time to “implement” a real blog-roll as it was really painful to update the link-list manually – and like everything else which is painful: you tend to not do it.
So I created a blogrolling account, deleted the old manual link-list and replaced it with the new, dynamic blogroll.
Free MacMini
Not for me I guess. Due to the fact that I don’t live within the US means that I can’t take advantage of stuff like freemacminis.com :tdown:
Too bad for me, so I guess I will have to start saving and buy one with my own money in the future, or maybe not?
Inspired by sites like Save Karyn, Scrounging Git and last but not least Jeremy’s sponsored laptop I thought: “Why not? Let’s give it a try!”.
So here’s my request: Support me in getting a MiniMac, donate me some dosh (489€ for the 1.2GHz one is my goal, if the 589€ for the 1.42GHz one would come in though it would be more than fine, too :mrgreen: )!
Disclaimer: I know that there are more worthy causes, especially in times like these, so please don’t interpret this as disrespectful – I have already donated as much as I can to the german relief efforts!
And what’s in it for me?
I guess I should give back more than my endless gratitude to all the donators who might help me out. So, hmm, I guess there should be a raffle:
- First price: The lucky winner out of all donators will receive a graphic ad for 6 months (see my advertising page for more information) and a cool geek T-shirt (of my choice) which will be delivered to his/her home for free!
- Second price:The first runner-up will receive a graphic ad for 3 months!
- Third price:The second runner-up will receive an advanced text ad for 3 months
(If anyone wants to donate some more prices in return for a mention here, feel free to contact me at Ingoal[at]gmail[dot]com).
Finally:
- The drawing will be random!
- There’s no right to a price!
- The prices can’t be exchanged for their money value!
- I promise to use the donated money for the Mac Mini and the Mac Mini only!
- I will keep you updated about the current status of donations received!
- I will provide a list with amount donated and a backlink to your site (if desired)
- Thanks to all donators!!!
Donation links:
Current ammount donated:
- 0 $
- 0 squid
- 0 €
Wide gravatars are go
Tom Werner just wrote about it: the distribute gravatar proxy system is ready (read more about it here). This way the main gravatar server will be relieved a little bit and even if there’s a problem with the mainserver the gravatars will still show up just fine.
All you need to do is edit the gravatars plugin (change the url to wide.gravatar.com* where * is the query string which doesn’t need to be edited) :tup:
via Neil’s World.
Dad
Today is my dad’s 55th birthday, so it’s family cake&coffee this afternoon (the first relatives already arrived) and dinner in a restaurant tonight, so don’t expect any other posts today :wink:
New WP-Mobile version
Alex has just released the new version 1.7 of WordPress Mobile edition (see here).
Just upgraded, so the mobile edition is uptodate again, although the prior version was working alright on the pda I tested it on (Kai‘s HP iPaq h6340).
Around the world for 3 Euros
Hehe, today I received the first mailbag of my life. You read right, a really BIG yellow mailbag (see Photo #1).
I was a little confused what it might be, and after reading the label (see Photo #2) it was clear that it had to be some books from an Amazon Marketplace seller (alibris). I do a lot of business with them as they sell superb hardcover books for cheap prices – I tend to read original material, hence most books are english and those books are really expensive over here, especially if you want the hardcover edition.
To my surprise all that was inside was a single package (see Photo #3). Alrighty, it contained quite a large book (see Photo #4), but nontheless: a whole mailbag for that?! But anyway, what do I care, I only payed 3 Euro shipping costs :mrgreen:
Photo #1
Photo #2
Photo #3
Photo #4
All Photos resized to 1024×768 and 204-283kb in size.
iPod -> iPod Shuffle?
Week 19
Ingoal’s score: 25 points (623 points total)
Mr. Price’s score: 43points (765 points total)
Seems I’m in a downward spiral yet again…
Mac Mini
So the rumours were true after all! There will be a super sweet Mac Mini available at your Apple store soonish (January 29th over here in germany). This might be my first Mac – just need to get some money first, as the base price of 499 Euro can easily be raised to near 1000 Euro if you add some extras (dvd-burner, memory upgrade, mouse + keyboard, bluetooth + wireless lan) :neutral:
Maybe this isn’t my first Mac after all – the iBook seems to be the better deal, at least for me…
Age of Mythology – Game 5
It’s been a while since we last played this game. So we took the time tonight and played it. Not a particularly nice game, at least for me, but nontheless I got away with the win thanks to Kai‘s last move which destroyed one of Ines’ buildings which put both of them into a tie (which means that both had the exact same number of buildings – the points of the winning card “Most buildings” wasn’t awarded).
After I had bought 6 winning points early on I couldn’t get anywhere near any other winning points due to the fact that Ines had destroyed my temple, which allows you to buy one winning point for 8 blue piece (“grace”). The other players battle for the remaining winning points and it really looked like Ines would get away with both the winning points for most buildings and biggest army, but with the last move, an effort to claim victory himself, Kai destroyed a building which sent it to the tie mentioned above and so only the points for biggest army were awarded to Ines.
Final standings:
- 1. Ingo: 6 points , race played: greeks :goof:
- 2. Ines: 3 points + 2 points for biggest army = 5 points, race played: vikings
- 2. Kai: 5 points, race played: egypts
- 4. Ralf: 1 point, race played: vikings
- 5. Nico: 0 points, race played: greeks
Overall winning standings:
- 1. Ingoal – 3 wins (5 games played)
- 2. Ines – 1 win (4 games played)
- 2. Nico – 1 win (4 games played)
- 4. Kai – 0 wins (4 games played)
- 5. Ralf – 0 wins (5 games played)
Now I’ve won it with every race (vikings, greece and egypts)! Woohoo :tup:
New spaminator version
Kitten has just released a new version of her Spaminotor (1.0rc6). You can get it in the WordPress Plugins directory (see here).
If you’re using WordPress 1.3 or above you will even have a admin-page to edit the settings – I don’t WordPress 1.2.2 here, but no worries, the normal configuration (edit the php-file directly) is still working like a charm :tup:
