Quarter Life Crisis Comments http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/ Recent Comments for Quarter Life Crisis en Sven-S. Porst (ssp-web@earthlingsoft.net) 2010-03-19T05:11:36+01:00 Kate on Gegen die Wand http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2004/04/gegen_die_wand#359510 Solino is by Fatih Akin (film about German Italians).

]]> Kate 2010-03-19T05:11:36+01:00 ssp on Rounded http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2010/03/rounded#359509 As usual, I’ll blame marketing.

Somehow they came to think that a €0,99 item sells better than a €1 one. So they managed to think that they need those little coins even if it doesn’t make any sense.

I wonder how much cost creating and distributing the little coins creates.

]]> ssp 2010-03-18T09:23:12+01:00 Stefan on Rounded http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2010/03/rounded#359505 I mean even if you were to go to a kiosk to buy a single piece of wine gum they would most likely charge you no less than 5 cent, which is the only situation I can think of where this kind of small change used to make sense. The kiosk of my trust in my childhood used to sell mixed goodies for 5 Pfennig a piece, which would theoretically equal to maybe 3 cent nowadays, but I guess they probably used the dealer friendly currency converting method which means to just exchange the currency symbol and leave the numbers untouched when switching from D-Mark to Euro.

]]> Stefan 2010-03-18T01:45:44+01:00 ssp on Rounded http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2010/03/rounded#359504 Yeah, possibly. Although I heard a while ago that people don’t use 1 and 2 cent coins in Finland either.

Wikipedia confirms this, but they claim doing this is known as Swedish Rounding, so it’s back to Sweden…

]]> ssp 2010-03-17T16:00:02+01:00 Stefan on Rounded http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2010/03/rounded#359503 Maybe DM took a look over to Sweden [de]?

]]> Stefan 2010-03-17T15:07:53+01:00 Andrew on Kitchen Confidential http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2005/07/kitchen_confidential#359502 Kitchen Confidential is actually a collection of essays/articles originally written for various newspapers, which explains it’s scattergun approach.

As a professional chef, everything in this book rings true. And indeed, all the fellow chefs I’ve met over the years strongly identify with Tony Bourdain’s first-hand accounts. I remember my first day as a commis chef many years ago, my head chef pulled me aside and said: “If you want to know what this job is all about, pick up a copy of Kitchen Confidential”. All the stuff you see on TV, all the sugar-coated cookbooks, Jamie Oliver, Delia Smith, all the cute Hell’s Kitchen blow-ups… it’s all media bullshit. This book is real life.

A real kitchen is furnace-hot, cramped, stressful, full of guys of all nationalities screaming and shouting the foulest and most obscene language. They ogle all the pretty girls who come into the restaurant, call all the guys faggots, abuse the floor staff for fun and wind down after a long double shift by drinking heavily and doing a few lines. Not cool, but that’s how it is.

I guess civilians will never understand the time and effort that goes into their food when they sit down in a restaurant, but Tony Bourdain tells it straight up. The book is written by a chef and, in a way, it’s for chefs. If you don’t like it, go eat at McDonalds.

]]> Andrew 2010-03-17T01:56:54+01:00 The Old Master on Religion sucks http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2003/11/religion_sucks#359501 If you believe in God, you flunked one of life’s tests. Go back and try again, only think this time.

]]> The Old Master 2010-03-08T14:02:08+01:00 dan on I WAS LIKE... WHUT?! AND SHE WAS LIKE WTF?! http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2009/10/i_was_like_whut#359498 ‘whaterver’ ? MySpace FAIL

]]> dan 2010-03-01T11:55:39+01:00 cindy on I WAS LIKE... WHUT?! AND SHE WAS LIKE WTF?! http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2009/10/i_was_like_whut#359495 whaterver

]]> cindy 2010-02-26T20:29:20+01:00 ssp on NSConference Day 2 http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2010/02/nsconference_day_2#359491 According to their support it seems to be iStat for iPhone.

]]> ssp 2010-02-23T09:34:24+01:00 Andrew Barr on NSConference Day 2 http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2010/02/nsconference_day_2#359490 istatrmt = iStat Remote?

]]> Andrew Barr 2010-02-22T23:36:29+01:00 ssp on MasterCard® SecureCode™ http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2010/02/mastercard_securecode#359487 Thanks a bunch for the link. Sounds like things may be even a little worse than I imagined.

Wondering whether it’s worth bugging my bank about this nonsense. But I suppose their global business interests are more profitable/important than my well-being…

]]> ssp 2010-02-20T23:27:35+01:00 R. on MasterCard® SecureCode™ http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2010/02/mastercard_securecode#359486 Retailers agree because it makes the transaction count as cardholder present, which reduces their liability. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/fc10vbvsecurecode.pdf

]]> R. 2010-02-20T15:07:58+01:00 Kevin on Motorola F3 http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2007/10/motorola_f3#359485 I’ve just stepped down from the iPhone with unlimited voice and data to this F3 with a prepaid plan. I decided I was spending way too much money with the iPhone; about $150 US per month.

Anyway, is there a way to clear the call history on the F3. If I could clear the history daily, new calls that I’ve missed would be more obvious.

I’ve looked for the answer in the .pdf file provided my motorola.com but couldn’t find an answer to my question. The manual even mentioned that you should perform a master clear of the phone before giving it away or selling it, but then there was no record of how to do a master clear! (?)

Thanks for your help.

]]> Kevin 2010-02-13T18:36:20+01:00 dan on Travel notes http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2010/02/travel_notes#359483 In your last photo, what’s the one at bottom right hand side for? ‘Always stand with your shoulder pointing into the corner’ ?

PS Don’t worry about the mett, it gives me a good excuse to visit you and indulge ;-)

]]> dan 2010-02-06T23:08:36+01:00