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  • Hach ja, die Tonieboxen, die gerne die Hörgewohnheiten meiner Kinder studieren wollen.

    CDs waren viel günstiger und angenehmer.

    Dabei muss ich mal wieder Ravensburger’s tiptoi loben. Super simpel. Man kann die einfach als USB-Stick einhängen und ohne Netzverbindung oder App-Zwang neue Bücher drauf laden. Selbst Firmware-Updates funktionieren so.

    Und inzwischen wissen Leute wie man selbst Bücher drucken kann. Einfach nur toll heutzutage so ein offenes digitales Spielzeug zu haben.










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    My projector actually came with a perverse little known DVI connector. The packaging just said DVI. But when I got home I couldn’t use my DVI cable. The socket on the projector was too long. Going back to the store I argued a long time with the clerk until he sold me an adaptor with his employee discount.

    The socket was supposed to be used to connect something via USB to the projector. But to what end I could never find out. It was basically useless. Especially since they could just as easily have used a normal DVI socket and a USB socket. But nooo, they had to be special.



  • First time my brother took our mother’s car out: “I’m taking the car out.” Literally 2 minutes later he comes back: “I had a car accident up the street.”

    Another guy who didn’t have the right of way crashed into him. Nobody was hurt but the car was totalled. He was super sorry and apologised profusely to my parents.

    They were glad. The car was old and the money they got from the insurance was much more than they would ever have gotten from selling the car.

    The guy would still avoid them years later.




  • It was a very easy proof of concept. Back then they used XSLT to convert clients’ homepages to an intermediary HTML-dialect that would then be rendered out to mobile phones and other devices according to their capabilities. That was before everyone had a smartphone just around the time the first iPhone was released.

    The test was to write an XSLT that would convert one very simple HTML file into their dialect. They knew that almost no candidate would have ever touched XSLT before that. So they needed people who could learn quickly. My own entry was plenty suboptimal but at least it achieved the task. That was about two hours of work.