Zuberbühler

Well, it’s a good thing Zuberbühler (the Swiss national goal keeper) proved me wrong, he played very well during the world championship in Germany. As a matter of fact, the entire team played the best soccer ever since I am born to this world. Yet they loose in a silly match against the Ukraine when they could have won just as well. *sigh* You find the official match report here. CNN callled it last night a boring game which is perfectly understandable if you’re neither Swiss nor Ukrainian, but at the soccer party I went to last night people were truly aching for 120 minutes.

I am a Brazilian

No, I’m not really a Brazilian, I’m not that a big fan either (because in these days, everybody is a Brazil fan). However, now I know what my jersey would look like if I were playing for them:

I like it.

You can get your own jersey here.

Being save is so easy…

…but it really takes a whole lot of time - with Windows applications.

Today when I started my computer at the office it happily greeted me with the message that Adobe Acrobat wants to perform an update. Good idea, after all we are living in a world where even PDF files are prepared to get admin priviledges on a unsuspecting person’s computer. Figuring the update would take about ten minutes I gladly hit the OK button. For the next 90 minutes I had plenty of time to do anything - except to work with my computer. That’s the time it took to install the 75MB worth of updates on a PIV with 1GHz and 512MB RAM (four reboots were the whipped cream on top of my update cake).

It takes less time to update the kernel on a Debian/Ubuntu system. When there is a security update for PDF on Linux, it downloads a library a couple KB big and installs it within a minute. It’s reliable. It’s fast. It’s save. It lets you do what you really want to do: your work.

Discordian Teaching #00005

Parcival says:

No matter what nonsense you teach, you will always find somebody who supports it.

Rollende Landstrasse

Today there is a interesting article (German only) in the Tagesanzeiger on Swiss transit traffic. It’s not like this is a very exciting topic, but it shows to all those pessimists that the debating culture in our Federal Council still seems to work. Oh, and I take this opportunity to salute the Ordnungspolitischer Blog. (Caritas, please note the category I am posting political topics in )