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Away For 6 Weeks

I am currently having a training program for my job. Unfortunately it is far away from home in a town called Judenburg. I will be only at the weekends at home, so expect not much noise from me on the forum for the time being...   btw. Judenburg is situated in the austrian province of styria, the very same province where Arnold Schwarzenegger was born.

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World War 2 Memories - Pow Post

Here we have a post card from a P.O.W Camp in Halstead Essex, the Camps name is Hasford Lodge. It must be a friend (comrade?) from my grandpa that is still a P.O.W in England while my grandpa is already at home (he was a P.O.W in the USA).   The postal system must be fairly ok at the time, because at the back it says, "got your letter from the 18th September" and this one is dated 29th of September... Other then that he only asks if he (my grandpa) already got married...   This letter was a

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Austria wins Oscar

Hmm, I am a bit late, but in case you missed it, Austria (my native country) won for the first time the Oscar for best foreign-language picture.   The story goes something like this...   The Counterfeiters is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a mischievous life of cards, booze, and women in Berlin during the Nazi-era. Suddenly his luck runs dry when arrested by Sup

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Getting Wealthy - Debt

I managed to move all my current debt into a single low interest loan at my local bank. Which means Credit Card, consumer credit and overdraft (both with high interest) are on zero (and will stay that way). This move which took me less then 60 minutes reduced my monthly payment to service all my debt by 12% and shed a good year of paying back too...   I am really cruising nicely along right now, i am ahead of plan!   The interesting thing is that the more i think of getting rich, the more i

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End Of World On June 1, 2014

Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious mass they've dubbed a "chaos cloud" that dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth!   Discovered April 6 by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the swirling, 10 million-mile- wide cosmic dust cloud has been likened to an "acid nebula" and is hurtling toward us at close to the speed of light -- making its estimated time of arrival 9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 201

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Deutsche Musik

Time to introduce some music from the german speaking world to the rest of the planet....   one of my favourites is Xavier Naidoo (south african indian roots, but grew up in Germany and calls himself son of the city Mannheim),   ...one of the best songwriter in Germany...  

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History Of Villach

I just found out that my hometowns official site has an english version.   The history part is pretty good...  

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Smart Beer Mat Orders Refills

Well, eventually a usefull invention!   A beer mat that knows when a glass is nearly empty and automatically asks for a refill has been created by thirsty researchers in Germany.   Andreas Butz at the University of Munich and Michael Schmitz from Saarland University came up with the idea while out drinking with their students.   full article at New Scientist

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John Rabe

I have to admit, till a few days ago i never heard of this man. Wasn`t it for the History Channel that brought a documentary about him, i still wouldnt know what this man meant to the people of Nanking.   Why was he such a special person, you may ask? Well, John Rabe played the key role in saving the lives of more than 250,000 Chinese during the incident called the Rape of Nanking, i was so fascinated by this story that i had to look up more info on him and share this with you guys...   You

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Deutsche Musik - Peter Fox

Peter Fox is a German reggae and hip hop musician from Berlin. He is also a member of the German reggae and dancehall band Seeed. One of the most popular musician in Germany     !

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Success - Mind over Matter!

I am now just over a year without cigarettes, i stopped from a packet a day to zero from one day to the next. It is possible therefor i am one hell of a guy that i am able to manage that...   this success story was brought to you by the mighty awesome Viggen, stay tuned till the next one comes..   cheers chris

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Dual Monitors

I got myself a 22" Monitor and what a pleasure it is to have that big display in front of you. I did not get rid of my old 19" Monitor though, but instead set up a Dual Monitor display. My GeForce 7950 has two DVI connections and so it is a simple plug and play procedure. Within the Nvidia Graphic Settings it is a breeze to set up the two monitors the way you like. You can have both monitors display only one area (an extension so to speak) or you can have two seperate individual Desktops, which

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Deutsche Musik - Unheilig

Unheilig (German for "Unholy") is a German industrial rock band with various pop and electronic influences. They are around since 2000 but only last year they had theire breakthrough, impressive dark voice by lead singer Bernd Heinrich Graf (only known as Der Graf (The Count)...    

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Web Censorship - Revenge Of The Nerds

China has the most sophisticated and effective Internet censorship regime in the world, employing North American technology from Cisco Systems Inc. and Canada's Nortel Networks Corp., among others, to filter out banned material. But China is just one of a growing number of states censoring the Internet, using primarily American filtering programs.   But the computer smarts of Ron Deibert, Nart Villeneuve, and Michael Hull, combined with their passion for politics and free expression, have led

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Webcam Villach

Just stumbled over this... http://service.it-wms.com/villach1/   It shows several webcams about my hometown Villach!

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List Of Printers Which Do Or Don't Print Tracking

This is a list in progress of color laser printer models that do or do not print yellow tracking dots on their output.   Remember that a "no" simply means that we couldn't see yellow dots; it does not prove that there is no forensic watermarking present. (For example, the HP Color LaserJET 8500 series does not include any yellow tracking dots that we can see, but it may still include some kind of forensic marking, since the majority of earlier CLJ models did.)   Remember that a "yes" simply

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Johann Pachelbel - Classic Goes Wild

Johann who? ...you might ask, well he was a great baroque composer and his Canon in D is well known and very often played, a classic so to speak...   Now take Johann Pachelbel`s work Canon in D and add a brilliant taiwanese with a hot electric guitar and you get that!   i only say WOW   regards viggen

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Abbey Road

Yesterday I found by accident an old Vinyl of mine in the basement. I had all forgotten about it. The last album from the Beatles. "Abbey Road"   After listening to it for basically the whole of yesterday and today, i have to say. It sounds fresh, vibrant and you can hear at every tune that this is a true master piece. The ending medley espcially Golden Slumber/Carry that Weight/The End is probably one of the best pieces of music ever made. It includes features never heard before by the beatle

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My Daughter Can`t Be Wrong...

Well, my five year old daughter wanted recently desperately ABBAs Greatest Hits, so i listend to it too...   My favourite 5   5. Mamma Mia 4. Voulez Vous 3. SOS 2. Fernando 1. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!   ...but to be honest, (just like my daughter), I like all of them (for example Take a Chance on Me is just such a great song), and back in the 80s when it was released for the first time the Rolling Stone Magazine summed it up for me...:   "...there are more infectious melodies, grabby ho

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How one guy saved a breed from extinction

The carinthian sheep is a fairly recent breed, it was around the beginning of the 19th century that local farmers were looking for a sheep with a better wool then what was available. This was rather difficult because the two best breeds were from spain and england and both did not allow to export rams at the time, so they looked south to Italy and crossed their local the old Landschaf breed with the Bergamasca and Paduaner Sheep. The hardy, frugal Brillenschaf can cope with high precipitation an

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Spam

Wow, lately i am getting flooded with spam mails, from pills to *or*, from poker to mortage, from diploma to software.....   People I dont want your crap, stop it!

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